Zaki Marina, Devane Declan, Conway Thomas, Galvin Sandra, Burke Nikita, Finucane Elaine
School of Nursing and Midwifery, National University of Ireland Galway, Galway, Ireland.
Evidence Synthesis Ireland, National University of Ireland Galway, Galway, Ireland.
HRB Open Res. 2020 Nov 9;3:81. doi: 10.12688/hrbopenres.13174.1. eCollection 2020.
On the 11 of March 2020, the World Health Organisation (WHO) declared a global pandemic due to the SARS-CoV-2 virus, which causes coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). This was one month after Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Director-General of the WHO declared that we are also fighting an 'infodemic'. The WHO has described an infodemic as an . iHealthFacts.ie is an Irish resource where the public can quickly and easily check the credibility and reliability of health claims circulating on social media. Unreliable claims can lead to poorly informed health choices. iHealthFacts is an initiative that supports the public to think critically about health claims and make well-informed choices. Here, we describe the role iHealthFacts plays in providing reliable information to the public and offer reflections from those involved in launching this initiative during a pandemic.
2020年3月11日，世界卫生组织（WHO）宣布，由严重急性呼吸综合征冠状病毒2（SARS-CoV-2）引发的2019冠状病毒病（COVID-19）已成为全球大流行病。这是在WHO总干事谭德塞博士宣布我们同时还在应对“信息疫情”一个月之后。WHO将信息疫情描述为……iHealthFacts.ie是爱尔兰的一个资源平台，公众可以在这里快速轻松地核实社交媒体上流传的健康声明的可信度和可靠性。不可靠的声明可能导致人们在健康问题上做出不明智的选择。iHealthFacts是一项支持公众批判性思考健康声明并做出明智选择的倡议。在此，我们描述了iHealthFacts在向公众提供可靠信息方面所发挥的作用，并呈现了参与在大流行期间发起这一倡议的相关人员的思考。
