Medicina comunitaria y educación para la salud

Abstracto

An Examination of Construction of Health Misinformation about COV-2 (Coronavirus) on Face-book

Muqaddas Naz

Corona outbreak constitutes a major public health issue all over the world. The flow of information from the WHO (World Health Organization) has proven that over more than 4300 ensured cases have had acknowledged in 28 states. Therefore, the social media is becoming a more popular medium for data sharing source in the media study, But the social media platform has no limitations regarding the spread of unsolicited and unauthorized information about the health crises. Access to the internet and social media caused increasing confusion and great hype and fear about morbidity and mortality pattern of the Cov-2 wave. The main purpose of present study is what is the most common misinformation, the perception of misinformation and the implementation of misinformation concerning Cov-2 (Coronavirus) on the Pakistani newspaper’s official pages of face book. According to previous study, the scholar used the content analysis on misinformation about COVID-19 on social media. The present study will conclude through content analysis that, the flood of conspiracy theories about health care on social media can be potentially strict inference on health if provide logical scientific guidelines.