Public health communication and the Covid-19: A review of the literature during the first wave
Author
Wennberg-Capellades, Laia
Regadera-González, Elisa
Publication date
2023ISSN
1386-6710
Abstract
The expansion of the Covid-19 virus in early 2020 grew in parallel with the spread of rumours, false or unverified news and even contradictions between information sources and health sources. It has been the first pandemic to be broadcast live on social media and has generated disinformation which was described by the WHO as an “infodemicâ€, a pandemic as serious as the virus itself. The aim was to identify and analyse the impact generated by the first wave of Covid-19 (January-June 2020) on public health communication. The review was carried out under the Prisma guidelines. A systematic search was performed in PubMed, Scopus and Web of Science databases, which yielded a figure of 1.157 papers. Using seven keywords as a filter a corpus of 193 articles was reached. Four main themes were identified: 1) Need for massive public health literacy; 2) Social networks as an information and disinformation during pandemic; (3) The uncertain response of institutional communication; and (4) Media coverage of the pandemic. The authors propose large-scale health literacy and point out the need to work on health information together -governments, health institutions and the media-.
Document Type
Article
Document version
Published version
Language
English
Subject (CDU)
61 - Medical sciences
Keywords
Revisió sistemàtica
COVID-19
Coronavirus
Infodèmies
Comunicació sanitària
Salut pública
Alfabetització en salut electrònica
Mitjans de comunicació social
Xarxes socials
Desinformació
Informació sanitària
Pandèmies
Revisión sistemática
COVID-19
Coronavirus
Infodemias
Comunicación sanitaria
Salud pública
Alfabetización en salud
Medios de comunicación social
Redes sociales
Desinformación
Información de salud
Pandemias
Systematic review
COVID-19
Coronavirus
Infodemics
Health communication
Public health
Health literacy
Disinformation
Health information
Pandemics
Pages
18
Publisher
Profesional de la Información
Collection
32; 3
Is part of
Profesional de la Información
Citation
Méndiz-Noguero, Alfonso; Wennberg-Capellades, Laia; Regadera-González, Elisa [et al.]. Public health communication and the Covid-19: A review of the literature during the first wave. Profesional de la Información, 2023, 32(3), p. 1-18. Disponible en: <https://revista.profesionaldelainformacion.com/index.php/EPI/article/view/87233>. Fecha de acceso: 18 oct. 2023. DOI: 10.3145/epi.2023.may.13
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