60.5% of the Spanish population consults on their health on the Internet, as indicated in the report 'Citizens before e-Health' prepared by the National Telecommunications Observatory and The Information Society (Ontsi).In fact, 52.1% of the Spanish population browses the Internet to search for information about a diagnosis or illness and, in addition, 50.9% browse web pages to know the symptoms of a pathology that affects both the user and a close relative.However, health is in turn the protagonist of 30% of the bulos that circulate through the network.
From fake news that speak of the fries of a famous fast food chain as the definitive solution for alopecia to vaccines that cause autism.Before this embarrassing situation, the Association of Researchers in eHealth (AIES) has just presented the #SaludSinBulos Observatory, a platform that integrates health professionals, patient organizations and communicators to denounce and disassemble the health hoops that circulate on the internet, social networks and instant messaging applications and contribute to the truthful and proven information about health on the web.
Related »The ability of the Internet to spread news has been exploited by the manufacturers of hoaxes to spread health rumors that can have important consequences on users.Some of these rumors respond to people who are looking for prominence at all costs, others to whom they intend to obtain economic benefits », in Carlos Mateos, vice president of AIES and director of the communication agency COM SALUD.
#Saludsinbulos: health fake news has the days counted
Thus, the objective of #SaludSinBulos is to question the news published in the media or on social networks in which results are exaggerated or scientific or health information is published without contrast. It will be 'Behind the headline' section, in which a panel of health professionals will analyze this information and replicate with scientific arguments its origin and implications for patients, as reported by the AIES through a statement.
In addition, the initiative has a section of inquiries of the population so that users send possible doubts of health bulos that they have found on the web, with the link, and ask that a professional The health service will clarify it.On the other hand, the AIES has signed an agreement with VOST Spain, the network of emergency services on the Internet, to launch a VOST to deny health-related emergency bullets.This panel of digital volunteers will have Primary care physicians, nurses, pharmacists, patient associations and communicators.
The association presented the II eHealth On Report (EHON) that includes the conclusions of health professionals, patients and health communicators gathered last November at the II eHealth Congress.64% of the participants in this meeting of the health blogosphere believe that it is possible to combine immediacy with contrast to answer health cults, while 73% of panelists consider collaboration between scientific societies, institutions and journalists to fight health cults feasible.45% of the panelists believe that health education to the population and the rapid response of official and scientific institutions are almost as effective in combating health culls.
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