Gunther Eysenbach is the first Infodemiologist. Why does the world need the JMIR? The Internet – and more specifically, the World-Wide-Web – has an impact on many areas of medicine – broadly we can divide them into “clinical information and telemedicine”, “medical education and information exchange” and “consumer health informatics”: First, Internet protocols are used…
Infodemiology can be defined as the science of distribution and determinants of information in an electronic medium, specifically the Internet, or in a population, with the ultimate aim to inform public health and public policy. Infodemiology data can be collected and analyzed in near real time. Examples for infodemiology applications include: the analysis of queries…
Abstract Background Syndromic surveillance uses health-related data that precede diagnosis and signal a sufficient probability of a case or an outbreak to warrant further public health response. Objective While most syndromic surveillance systems rely on data from clinical encounters with health professionals, I started to explore in 2004 whether analysis of trends in Internet searches…
“We’re not just fighting an epidemic; we’re fighting an infodemic. Fake news spreads faster and more easily than this virus, and is just as dangerous” – WHO Director-General Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Munich Security Conference on Feb 15, 2020. The World Health Organization (WHO) defines an infodemic as “an over-abundance of information, some accurate and some…
Objectives: Understand the multidisciplinary nature of infodemic management; Identify current examples and tools to understand, measure and control infodemics; Build a public health research agenda to direct focus and investment in this emerging scientific field; and Establish a community of practice and research. — WHO Sources:
Winter 2021 The languaging suggestions in the AMA’s document amount to a type of covert hypnosis. It would be an interesting exercise to take a mainstream media news story about COVID-19 and reverse the suggested languaging and neutralize or remove any judgmental wording. Sources: Related:
This document provides immunization programmes and other stakeholders with step-by-step guidance on how to effectively manage the communication response to vaccine-related events, particularly those with a potentially high impact on public trust, which are therefore considered to be a vaccine crisis. — Vaccine Crisis Communication Manual In other words, this document is about how to…
1.TWITTER FILES #19 The Great Covid-19 Lie Machine Stanford, the Virality Project, and the Censorship of “True Stories” 2.“The release of Dr. Anthony Fauci’s Spring 2020 emails… has been used to exacerbate distrust in Dr. Fauci.” “Increased distrust in Fauci’s expert guidance.” 3.“Reports of vaccinated individuals contracting Covid-19 anyway”; “natural immunity”; suggesting Covid-19 “leaked from…