The perils of misinformation: when health literacy goes awry
Growing patient empowerment and the deluge of health information and misinformation have highlighted the importance of health literacy. Unfortunately, public information and literacy programmes often fail to counter the effect of misinformation. Successfully countering misinformation presents distin...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8739684/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34997231 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41581-021-00534-z |
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description | Growing patient empowerment and the deluge of health information and misinformation have highlighted the importance of health literacy. Unfortunately, public information and literacy programmes often fail to counter the effect of misinformation. Successfully countering misinformation presents distinctive challenges beyond patient education, and may require trust built on collaborative patient–clinician relationships. |
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spelling | pubmed-87396842022-01-07 The perils of misinformation: when health literacy goes awry Schulz, Peter J. Nakamoto, Kent Nat Rev Nephrol Comment Growing patient empowerment and the deluge of health information and misinformation have highlighted the importance of health literacy. Unfortunately, public information and literacy programmes often fail to counter the effect of misinformation. Successfully countering misinformation presents distinctive challenges beyond patient education, and may require trust built on collaborative patient–clinician relationships. Nature Publishing Group UK 2022-01-07 2022 /pmc/articles/PMC8739684/ /pubmed/34997231 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41581-021-00534-z Text en © Springer Nature Limited 2022 This article is made available via the PMC Open Access Subset for unrestricted research re-use and secondary analysis in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for the duration of the World Health Organization (WHO) declaration of COVID-19 as a global pandemic. |
spellingShingle | Comment Schulz, Peter J. Nakamoto, Kent The perils of misinformation: when health literacy goes awry |
title | The perils of misinformation: when health literacy goes awry |
title_full | The perils of misinformation: when health literacy goes awry |
title_fullStr | The perils of misinformation: when health literacy goes awry |
title_full_unstemmed | The perils of misinformation: when health literacy goes awry |
title_short | The perils of misinformation: when health literacy goes awry |
title_sort | perils of misinformation: when health literacy goes awry |
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url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8739684/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34997231 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41581-021-00534-z |
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