Media and health promotion in times of COVID-19

The access to information is one of the most important ways of promoting health. Understanding the current circumstances helps the population to take a stand and face the COVID-19 pandemic. However, the overload of news and data, often false, poses risks to mental health and well-being. It is observ...

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Detalhes bibliográficos
Autor principal: Silva, Eduardo de Sousa Martins e (author)
Outros Autores: Ono, Ben Hur Vitor Silva (author), Souza, José carlos (author), Menin, Iris Bucker Froes (author)
Formato: article
Idioma:por
Publicado em: 2020
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Texto completo:https://doi.org/10.33448/rsd-v9i8.6252
País:Brasil
Oai:oai:ojs.pkp.sfu.ca:article/6252
Descrição
Resumo:The access to information is one of the most important ways of promoting health. Understanding the current circumstances helps the population to take a stand and face the COVID-19 pandemic. However, the overload of news and data, often false, poses risks to mental health and well-being. It is observed, fomented by biased news, which stimulates panic, an increase in, global levels of anxiety, depression, among others psychological disorders. It is necessary to inform individuals about the pandemic without splurge. Therefore, this article aims to analyse how the media and social networks are related with health promotion during the pandemics of COVID-19 and its difficulties produced by “infodemic”. An integrative bibliographic review was carried out using scientific articles from the last ten years, from PUBMED database, with the descriptors: Communication; Promotion; Pandemic; COVID-19; Health. In addition with the books “Comunicação e saúde” and “Health promotion practice”.