The spread of medical fake news in social media – The pilot quantitative study

Health Policy and Technology

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2018, Pages 115-118

  Waszak, Przemyslaw M ^a,b   Kasprzycka Waszak, Wioleta ^a   Kubanek, Alicja ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF GDANSK   (Poland)

^b T Bilikiewicz memorial Voivodship Psychiatric Hospital   (Poland)

Author keywords

Health communication; Misinformation; Poland; Social media

Indexed keywords

VACCINE;

ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME; ARTICLE; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CAUSE OF DEATH; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; DIABETES MELLITUS; HEART INFARCTION; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; HYPERTENSION; INFORMATION; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; INTERNET; LANGUAGE; MALIGNANT NEOPLASM; MEDICAL INFORMATION; MISINFORMATION; NEOPLASM; PILOT STUDY; POLAND; PUBLIC HEALTH PROBLEM; QUANTITATIVE STUDY; SOCIAL MEDIA; VACCINATION;

EID: 85046831961     PISSN: 22118837     EISSN: 22118845     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.hlpt.2018.03.002     Document Type: Article

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