Infodemic and infoveillance: two new words I learned
Tom KirkmanIndependent Project Manager
Infodemic – I learned a new word today. Also, Infoveillance.
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“In this issue of the Journal of Medical Internet Research, the World Health Organization (WHO) is presenting a framework for managing the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) infodemic.
Infodemiology is now acknowledged by public health organizations and the WHO as an important emerging scientific field and critical area of practice during a pandemic.
From the perspective of being the first “infodemiolgist” who originally coined the term almost two decades ago, I am positing four pillars of infodemic management:
(1) information monitoring (infoveillance);
(2) building eHealth Literacy and science literacy capacity;
(3) encouraging knowledge refinement and quality improvement processes such as fact checking and peer-review; and
(4) accurate and timely knowledge translation, minimizing distorting factors such as political or commercial influences.
In the current COVID-19 pandemic, the United Nations has advocated that facts and science should be promoted and that these constitute the antidote to the current infodemic.”
Posted on the US National Library of Medicine National Institute of Health:
ncbi.nlm.nih.gov ↗