Background Vaccination misinformation is associated with serious public health
consequences, such as a decrease in vaccination rates and a risk of disease outbreaks …

Background Tools used to appraise the credibility of health information are time-consuming
to apply and require context-specific expertise, limiting their use for quickly identifying and …

Background: Attitudes toward the human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine and accuracy of
information shared about this topic in web-based settings vary widely. As real-time, global …

This chapter introduces the diverse communication dimensions of the COVID-19 pandemic
that are analysed and discussed in this book, which brings together scholars from around …

Health journalism meets a significant public need and influences health, but digital
disruption in the news media and the migration of audiences towards new media platforms …

The media provide a crucial source of information for citizens on health and contribute to the
definition of problems and potential policy solutions (Henderson et al., 2020; Overgaard …

Online health communications often provide biased interpretations of evidence and have
unreliable links to the source research. We tested the feasibility of a tool for matching web …

Background: Tools used to appraise the credibility of health information are time-consuming
to apply and require context-specific expertise, limiting their use for quickly identifying and …

The Covid-19 pandemic is hot news but it poses new challenges to journalists who must
grapple with complex public health information, societal disruption, economic downturns …

In the era of the 'infodemic'–an era marked by an overwhelming flood of information–the role
of effective health communication becomes crucial in enhancing public health literacy. The …