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Role of Media in Health Literacy

Role of Media in Health Literacy

Seçil Özkan, Hülya Şirin
Copyright: © 2021 |Pages: 8
ISBN13: 9781799868255|ISBN10: 1799868257|ISBN13 Softcover: 9781799868262|EISBN13: 9781799868279
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-7998-6825-5.ch011
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Özkan, Seçil, and Hülya Şirin. "Role of Media in Health Literacy." Handbook of Research on Representing Health and Medicine in Modern Media, edited by Gülşah Sarı, IGI Global, 2021, pp. 172-179. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-7998-6825-5.ch011

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Özkan, S. & Şirin, H. (2021). Role of Media in Health Literacy. In G. Sarı (Ed.), Handbook of Research on Representing Health and Medicine in Modern Media (pp. 172-179). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-7998-6825-5.ch011

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Özkan, Seçil, and Hülya Şirin. "Role of Media in Health Literacy." In Handbook of Research on Representing Health and Medicine in Modern Media, edited by Gülşah Sarı, 172-179. Hershey, PA: IGI Global, 2021. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-7998-6825-5.ch011

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Abstract

The World Health Organization defines health literacy as the cognitive and social skills which determine the motivation and ability of individuals to gain access to understand and use information in ways which promote and maintain good health. Health literacy improves the life expectancy and quality and removes health inequalities. Health literacy includes the stages of reading, listening, analyzing, participating, and making decisions and adapting to life. An infodemic is an overabundance of information. It includes deliberate attempts to disseminate wrong information to undermine the public health response and advance alternative agendas of groups or individuals. Mis- or disinformation can be harmful to people's health, threaten precious health gains, and lead to poor observance of public health measures, thus endangering countries' ability to stop the pandemic. Media is one of the important sectors in health and health literacy. The concepts of infodemic became a current issue with the COVID-19 pandemic and revealed how important the role the media plays in intervening the health problems is.

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