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Addressing the spread of health-related misinformation on social networks: an opinion article

This article deals with the spread of misinformation in a general context and specifically in the health sector. It presents a theoretical view of the problem and analyzes its characteristics with a focus on medicine and mainly rheumatology. Finally, conclusions from the previous analysis are formul...

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Autores principales: Polyzou, Maria, Kiefer, David, Baraliakos, Xenofon, Sewerin, Philipp
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Frontiers Media S.A. 2023
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10186618/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37200966
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fmed.2023.1167033
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description This article deals with the spread of misinformation in a general context and specifically in the health sector. It presents a theoretical view of the problem and analyzes its characteristics with a focus on medicine and mainly rheumatology. Finally, conclusions from the previous analysis are formulated as well as suggestions for reducing the dimensions of the problem in the health sector.
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spelling pubmed-101866182023-05-17 Addressing the spread of health-related misinformation on social networks: an opinion article Polyzou, Maria Kiefer, David Baraliakos, Xenofon Sewerin, Philipp Front Med (Lausanne) Medicine This article deals with the spread of misinformation in a general context and specifically in the health sector. It presents a theoretical view of the problem and analyzes its characteristics with a focus on medicine and mainly rheumatology. Finally, conclusions from the previous analysis are formulated as well as suggestions for reducing the dimensions of the problem in the health sector. Frontiers Media S.A. 2023-05-02 /pmc/articles/PMC10186618/ /pubmed/37200966 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fmed.2023.1167033 Text en Copyright © 2023 Polyzou, Kiefer, Baraliakos and Sewerin. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10186618/
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