TY  - BOOK
AU  - Schulz,Peter
AU  - Nakamoto,Kent
TI  - Worse than ignorance: the challenge of health misinformation 
T2  - Cambridge elements.  Elements in health communication,
SN  - 9781009289542 (ebook)
AV  - R118 .S43 2024
U1  - 610.1/4 23/eng/20240301
PY  - 2024///
CY  - Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York
PB  - Cambridge University Press
KW  - Communication in medicine
N1  - Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 04 Apr 2024); The Growth of Health Misinformation -- What does it mean to be Misinformed? -- Patterns of Health Knowledge Failure -- Addressing Knowledge Failures -- The Doctor-Patient Relationship and Misinformation Management; Open Access
N2  - This Element considers health misinformation and the problems it presents. The evolving communication context-changing doctor-patient relationships and developments in information technology-presents patients with a vastly enriched information landscape and new challenges to patients navigating it. These challenges are magnified as growing patient empowerment and autonomy have increased expectations for patient involvement in medical decisions. In this context, the ways people approach presented information, learn from it, understand it, and use it, exacerbate the risk that they become misinformed-believing things that are inimical to improved health. Moreover, these same processes make it difficult to correct such beliefs. Approaches building on trust between patient and professional exemplify improved communication to increase accurate patient knowledge and understanding in the service of better health. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009289542
ER  -