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The health belief model: How public health can address the misinformation crisis beyond COVID-19

Houlden, S; Hodson, J; Veletsianos, G; Reid, D; Thompson-Wagner, C; (2021) The health belief model: How public health can address the misinformation crisis beyond COVID-19. Public Health in Practice , 2 , Article 100151. 10.1016/j.puhip.2021.100151. Green open access

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Abstract

Objectives: This paper proposes an intervention into health misinformation that relies upon the health belief model as a means to bridge the risks associated with health misinformation and the impact on individual health, beyond the current recommendations for fact checking and information literacy. Study design: This is a short theoretical paper. Methods: N/A. Results: N/A. Conclusions: Misinformation researchers and public health practitioners and communicators can benefit using the infrastructures afforded by public health offices to mobilize the health belief model as a site for misinformation education.

Type: Article
Title: The health belief model: How public health can address the misinformation crisis beyond COVID-19
Open access status: An open access version is available from UCL Discovery
DOI: 10.1016/j.puhip.2021.100151
Publisher version: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.puhip.2021.100151
Language: English
Additional information: /© 2021 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd on behalf of © The Royal Society for Public Health. This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).
Keywords: Misinformation, Health belief model, Public health
UCL classification: UCL
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of S&HS
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of S&HS > Dept of History
URI: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10129718
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