The Health Misinformation Monitor – Edition 1
KFF’s Health Misinformation Monitor will be released every two weeks, and will detail recent developments and research on health misinformation.
KFF Health Misinformation Tracking Poll Pilot
The Journalist’s Resource’s article about visual health misinformation acts as a primer and research roundup. The article includes links to articles and additional research.
Visual Health Misinformation: A Primer and Research Roundup
The Journalist’s Resource’s article about visual health misinformation acts as a primer and research roundup. The article includes links to articles and additional research.
Where We Go From Here: Health Misinformation on Social Media
The American Journal of Public Health’s article explains how health misinformation spreads on social media and how to combat the spread of misinformation.
Public Health and Online Misinformation: Challenges and Recommendations
The Annual Review of Public Health published a paper about the challenges of online misinformation and their public health recommendations for combatting online misinformation.
Equipping Health Professions Educators to Better Address Medical Misinformation
RTI worked with the CDC, the AAMC, and 5 medical schools to share their learnings about combatting medical misinformation and mistrust. This paper comprises insights from each of the teams and overarching observations regarding the challenges and opportunities involved with leveraging health professions education to address medical misinformation and improve patient health.
Evaluating Health Information
UCSF Health’s article about how to evaluate health information.
Health Misinformation Resources
The National Library of Medicine has online resources for health misinformation, including reading, videos, webinars, classes, events, and funding opportunities.
Correcting Misinformation with Patients: Resources, Guides, and Strategies
George Washington University assembled various resources on correcting misinformation with patients, including videos, podcasts, additional reading, and recommended courses.
Health Misinformation
The University of Minnesota compiled information and resources about health misinformation. Topics include the historical basis for misinformation, types of health misinformation, psychology of misinformation, common types of misinformation (venues or tactics), how to talk about misinformation, how to critically evaluate information, infographics on fake news/misinformation, videos on mis/disinformation, games for how to spot fake news or misinformation, and toolkits and handbooks.