It is deprived communities who desperately want to do their best for family, but struggle to have access to and make sense of many sources of information. News and information not just through 'traditional' channels, but social media. Trying to be objective, non-judgemental it can still be surprising how TVs and smartphones are the key personal and furniture items.
Outside of London, Liverpool has a low uptake of immunisation against measles:
Liverpool, now has cases and a child's death from measles:
https://liverpool.gov.uk/council/public-health-liverpool/measles-on-the-increase/
https://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/liverpool-news/alder-heys-plea-after-child-32050189
Located in-between, I often visit Manchester and Liverpool. I wonder now if I should visit Liverpool less. My daughter and her partner expecting their second child have a decision to make next year.
I noticed on
X a reference to 'social listening'. This was missed while drafting a paper on COVID, technology, social media and information disorder. More positively, work on '
infodemic' was captured and posted.
Blowing the dust of another draft, I will reassess this stream of work and seek specific literature, especially contributions to improved outcomes - public (mental) health.
McGowan B. S. (2022). World Health Organization's Early AI-supported Response with Social Listening Platform. Journal of the Medical Library Association : JMLA, 110(2), 273–275. https://doi.org/10.5195/jmla.2022.1398
See also:
Fryer, Jon. “
Information Literacies – Learning, to Thrive in a Digital Age” IRMS Bulletin 230 (2022): 16-21.
Jones, P. (1996)
Humans, Information, and Science, Journal of Advanced Nursing, 24(3),591-598.
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