Structural and Systematic Discrimination Driven Misinformation: Misinformation during COVID-19

Resumo

Introduction: While the world is focused on mitigating the impacts of COVID-19, the overwhelming need to focus on health literacy and communication is overlooked. As a pandemic to occur in a world of globalized communication, the spread of misinformation has presented crucial challenges in not only mitigating the transmission at the clinical level but has also impacted the way people have approached and experienced it. Misinformation during the pandemic has been heavily associated with the experiences of marginalized populations, and thus, can say, is driven by structural and systematic discrimination, which perpetuates mistrust and influences the perception. Through the Social Determinants of Health (SDOH) framework, this review aims to critically analyze the Public Health responses considering the social, cultural, and economic conditions that impact the inequity-driven experiences. Public health responses to the pandemic, especially during the first wave in Ontario, were heavily focused on social distancing, staying at home, and hygiene practices to lower the transmission of the virus. However, the interaction with these regulations varies depending on the different SDOH impacting the population and can directly cause the evolving mistrust in the messaging, as it may not be coherent with the experiences. The SDOH such as housing, income inequality, and language barriers, neighbourhood density, and cultural beliefs all play a role in the effectiveness of health literacy and

Tipo

Artigo

Área

Comunicação

Ano

2022

Idioma

Inglês

Páginas

2

Licença

CC BY-SA

DOI

10.33137/utjph.v3i1.38126

Como citar (ABNT)

YOGARATNAM, Abisha. Structural and Systematic Discrimination Driven Misinformation. University of Toronto Journal of Public Health, v. 3, n. 1, 2022. DOI: 10.33137/utjph.v3i1.38126.