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The Medical Community’s Role in Communication Strategies during Health Crises—Perspective from European Union of Medical Specialists (UEMS)

The COVID-19 pandemic was complicated by the spread of false information leading to what became widely called an “infodemic”. The present opinion paper was written by an ad hoc international team united under the European Union of Medical Specialists (UEMS) umbrella and reflects the organizations’ e...

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Autores principales: Nadareishvili, Ilia, Bazas, Theodore, Petrosillo, Nicola, Berce, Vojko, Firth, John, Mansilha, Armando, Leventer, Mihaela, Renieri, Alessandra, Zampolini, Mauro, Papalois, Vassilios
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Publicado: MDPI 2023
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10366824/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37489391
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/idr15040037
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author Nadareishvili, Ilia
Bazas, Theodore
Petrosillo, Nicola
Berce, Vojko
Firth, John
Mansilha, Armando
Leventer, Mihaela
Renieri, Alessandra
Zampolini, Mauro
Papalois, Vassilios
author_facet Nadareishvili, Ilia
Bazas, Theodore
Petrosillo, Nicola
Berce, Vojko
Firth, John
Mansilha, Armando
Leventer, Mihaela
Renieri, Alessandra
Zampolini, Mauro
Papalois, Vassilios
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description The COVID-19 pandemic was complicated by the spread of false information leading to what became widely called an “infodemic”. The present opinion paper was written by an ad hoc international team united under the European Union of Medical Specialists (UEMS) umbrella and reflects the organizations’ effort to contribute to the resolution of these issues, by highlighting and reflecting on them and by suggesting the medical community’s necessary activities resulting in the formulation of effective future communication strategies. The importance of physicians’ and other health workers’ role and mission as educators and leaders in communities in critical situations should be reassessed and upgraded. We need to equip future doctors with strong and sustainable leadership and communication skills through relevant undergraduate and postgraduate education programs, in order that compliance with preventive medical advice is increased. To avoid possible politically and otherwise biased communication in health crises of the future, European nations should establish independent advisory bodies providing evidence-based advice and participate in communication campaigns. Medical and other health professional organizations should build organizational and personal capacities of their members to enable them to reliably inform and adequately educate governments, populations, civic society, employers’ and employees’ organizations, schools and universities, and other stakeholders.
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spelling pubmed-103668242023-07-26 The Medical Community’s Role in Communication Strategies during Health Crises—Perspective from European Union of Medical Specialists (UEMS) Nadareishvili, Ilia Bazas, Theodore Petrosillo, Nicola Berce, Vojko Firth, John Mansilha, Armando Leventer, Mihaela Renieri, Alessandra Zampolini, Mauro Papalois, Vassilios Infect Dis Rep Opinion The COVID-19 pandemic was complicated by the spread of false information leading to what became widely called an “infodemic”. The present opinion paper was written by an ad hoc international team united under the European Union of Medical Specialists (UEMS) umbrella and reflects the organizations’ effort to contribute to the resolution of these issues, by highlighting and reflecting on them and by suggesting the medical community’s necessary activities resulting in the formulation of effective future communication strategies. The importance of physicians’ and other health workers’ role and mission as educators and leaders in communities in critical situations should be reassessed and upgraded. We need to equip future doctors with strong and sustainable leadership and communication skills through relevant undergraduate and postgraduate education programs, in order that compliance with preventive medical advice is increased. To avoid possible politically and otherwise biased communication in health crises of the future, European nations should establish independent advisory bodies providing evidence-based advice and participate in communication campaigns. Medical and other health professional organizations should build organizational and personal capacities of their members to enable them to reliably inform and adequately educate governments, populations, civic society, employers’ and employees’ organizations, schools and universities, and other stakeholders. MDPI 2023-07-03 /pmc/articles/PMC10366824/ /pubmed/37489391 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/idr15040037 Text en © 2023 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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Bazas, Theodore
Petrosillo, Nicola
Berce, Vojko
Firth, John
Mansilha, Armando
Leventer, Mihaela
Renieri, Alessandra
Zampolini, Mauro
Papalois, Vassilios
The Medical Community’s Role in Communication Strategies during Health Crises—Perspective from European Union of Medical Specialists (UEMS)
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title_sort medical community’s role in communication strategies during health crises—perspective from european union of medical specialists (uems)
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10366824/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37489391
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/idr15040037
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