Very excellent, as always from Seytre. Thank you
HIFA profile: Mrs Garance Fannie Upham, has 40+ years of involvement in health care issues in Africa and LDC countries, and some in India (Norwegian Church AID study on bloodborne HIV in India), and occasional work with the Tamil Nadu M.G.R. University in Chennai) She is President, AMR Think-Do-Tank, Geneva international, and has been Editor-in-Chief, AMR Control 2015,16,17,18,19-20, and 2021 : "AMR & The Environment, a Global and One Health Security Issue" She has been a Guest Member, Asia-Pacific Working Group on AMR, and of the CSO, Global AMR R&D Hub, Berlin She is also Member, Global Network on Emergency Medicine, GNEM, and ex-Member, Steering Com., Patients for Patient Safety, PSP, World Health Organization (2006-Jan 2014) Member of the Board, One Health Africa Institute Founding Mb, Xpert OneHealth & Patient Safety, South Africa & Xpert One, UAE Mobile tel.: +27 664422997 / +971 52 716 8572 Email: garance AT xpertonehealth.com www.xpertonehealth.org
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Dear all,
It has almost become a cliché to claim that misinformation circulating on the internet undermines COVID-19 vaccination efforts. Drawing on a study conducted across 46 countries, I demonstrate in a recently published article that this is not the case ( https://rdcu.be/eEYPr ).
I measured the change between vaccination intentions in 2020 and actual vaccination rates. In countries highly exposed to misinformation, this change is positive (actual vaccination rates are higher than initial intentions), whereas in countries with low exposure to misinformation, the change is negative.
Studies show that, contrary to popular belief, social media platforms convey significantly more accurate health information than false information—particularly regarding COVID-19. There is no reason to believe that internet users are more attracted to false information than to accurate content… and I show that this is not the case.
This article complements another piece I recently published, which challenges yet another widely held belief: that social media has a generally negative impact on health behaviors ( https://newprairiepress.org/hbr/vol8/iss3/3/ ).
Bernard Seytre
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HIFA profile: Bernard Seytre is a Consultant at BNSCommunication in France. Professional interests: Health communication and education. seytre AT bnscom.fr