Why Bolstering Trust in Journalism Could Help Strengthen Trust in Medicine

Why Bolstering Trust in Journalism Could Help Strengthen Trust in Medicine

This Viewpoint discusses how proliferation of health misinformation to the public undermines trust in science and medicine, and proposes ways the medical community and media might work together to make medical professionals better producers and consumers of accurate health information and to make th...

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Veröffentlicht in:JAMA : the journal of the American Medical Association 2019-06, Vol.321 (22), p.2159-2160
Hauptverfasser: Arora, Vineet M, Rousseau, David, Schwitzer, Gary
Format: Artikel
Sprache:eng
Schlagworte:
Consumer health information
False information
Medical personnel
Medicine
News media
Trust
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Zusammenfassung:This Viewpoint discusses how proliferation of health misinformation to the public undermines trust in science and medicine, and proposes ways the medical community and media might work together to make medical professionals better producers and consumers of accurate health information and to make the news media better at story curation and communication of uncertainty.
ISSN:0098-7484
1538-3598
DOI:10.1001/jama.2019.0636