The search for the missing link between health misinformation & health disparities.
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2024-07
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Relative to the rapid increase in available health information, little has been published on the differential impact misinformation has on the health of communities. Observations during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic indicated there were communities that made decisions that negatively impacted health outcomes beyond expectations; we propose that health misinformation was a contributor to poor health outcomes. Health misinformation exposure varies across communities and preliminary research suggests that some communities are more vulnerable to the impact of health misinformation than others. However, few studies have evaluated the connection between health misinformation and healthcare disparities. In this paper, we (a) review the current literature on misinformation and its impact on health disparities, (b) expand on prior epidemiological models to explain the communal spread of misinformation and the link to disparate health outcomes, (c) identify gaps in knowledge about communal misinformation spread (d) review promising interventions to halt the adverse impact of misinformation.
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Osude, Nkiru, Emily O'Brien and Hayden B Bosworth (2024). The search for the missing link between health misinformation & health disparities. Patient education and counseling, 129. p. 108386. 10.1016/j.pec.2024.108386 Retrieved from https://hdl.handle.net/10161/31463.
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Emily O'Brien
Dr. Emily O’Brien is Associate Professor in Population Health Sciences, Associate Professor in Neurology, Core Faculty Member at Duke-Margolis Center for Health Policy, and Co-Director of Population Health Sciences at the Duke Clinical Research Institute. Her research focuses on comparative effectiveness, patient-centered outcomes, and pragmatic health systems research in cardiovascular and pulmonary disease. Her areas of expertise include: Epidemiology, Pragmatic Clinical Trials, and Clinical Decision Sciences. Dr. O’Brien received her PhD in Epidemiology from the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill. As principal investigator for projects funded by the FDA, NIH, and PCORI, she has extensive experience working with diverse data sources including registries, epidemiologic cohorts, electronic health records, and administrative claims data. Dr. O’Brien teaches Analytic Methods in the Department of Population Health Sciences PhD program and has co-authored over 160 manuscripts in peer-reviewed journals on topics ranging from epidemiologic methods, comparative effectiveness, and pragmatic clinical trials. She is an associate editor for Circulation: Cardiovascular Quality and Outcomes, Chair of the AHA QCOR Scientific & Clinical Education Lifelong Learning Committee, social media editor for the Journal of the American Heart Association, and a fellow of the American Heart Association.
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