Health Care Providers Can Help Combat Harmful Misinformation About the Pandemic

N C Med J. 2021 Jan-Feb;82(1):68-70. doi: 10.18043/ncm.82.1.68.

Abstract

In a typical flu season or an atypical pandemic, much of the burden for ensuring one's health falls on individual behavior choices, and public health messaging is a tool for enabling people to make good ones. Today's complicated media environment is difficult to navigate. As trusted experts, physicians can guide patients toward evidence-based resources.

MeSH terms

  • Communication
  • Health Personnel
  • Humans
  • Pandemics* / prevention & control
  • Physicians*
  • Public Health