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No Rumour Health

Funder: European CommissionProject code: 2019-1-ES01-KA204-064037
Funded under: ERASMUS+ | Cooperation for innovation and the exchange of good practices | Strategic Partnerships for adult education Funder Contribution: 128,956 EUR

No Rumour Health

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Fake-news and post-truth have highlighted misinformation, a phenomenon that has always existed but that the possibilities Internet offer nowadays has allowed it to rocket in recent years. Misinformation affects all areas of knowledge with potentially adverse consequences on individuals and society. In fact, when misinformation concerns subject a lot, the possibility of adverse effects on society increases. This is the case of health misinformation that has lately threatened public health in some regions. One of the most well-known cases is the unproven yet rejected link between childhood vaccination and autism, where a poorly carried-out study that had been debunked originated a whole anti-vaccine movement. This movement is still prevalent and quite active in some countries and has derived in the decisions of many parents to not vaccinate their children, leading to an increase in vaccine-preventable diseases, causing a significant rise in resources to overcome this public-health crisis. Avoiding or counteracting misleading health information is one of the main concerns of the scientific and medical community. However, debunking misinformation is more challenging than it seems. Whether a user takes science and health information as true or not depends more on psychological reasons than on scientific literacy, thus, most commonly, once a statement is set as true, the complete debunking is difficult to assess. Moreover, even further, there is evidence that when accurate information is presented along with a contrary counter frame, the presence of misinformation causes people to stop believing in facts altogether. Previous studies have shown that corrections to beliefs can be work when they are done quickly and clearly and they are more effective when the correcting messages are not threatening nor require a change in people’s attitude. Bearing this in mind, this Erasmus+ project seeks to provide internet users with a tool to access contrasted information about the current health misinformation circulating on social media in order to avoid its solidification. Even though the tool will be accessible by all audiences, the user interface will be designed so adult learners can easily make use of it. The target group is people over 65 who had access to the internet late in their life. A recent study points out that, users over 65 are people that share more articles from fake news domains. This issue can be due to the fact that elderly people lack the digital literacy skills of their younger counterparts. Therefore, we propose an application where this population group can encounter an easy to use tool to discern whether the information they have received is true or not. The project will take into account the gender perspective, focusing on women who did not have access to education since they are usually the carers in their family and hoaxes can affect their health seriously. The main objectives of this projects are 1) to produce a user-friendly ICT platform to function as a trustful source of information for health-related issues; 2) to provide European citizens with a tool to avoid the instauration of health misleading information, and 3) to improve literacy in health-related issues amongst the European population, especially citizens over 65 years old.NoRumourHealth partners seek to obtain an ICT platform containing all the required information for debunking health misinformation, with information available in the different languages of the participating countries, to create four e-modules of free-access to teach how to discern and counteract health-related misinformation and to generate an on-line book including the most common health misinformation in the participating countries and the content of the e-modules. These activities will improve the transnational relations among partners concerned about Health misinformation; to improve the ICT skills of adult learners, and to improve the health literacy of European citizens over 65, especially women. To do so, not only all the material will be adapted to this target audience but they will also participate actively in the testing of the ICT tool and the e-modules to ensure the adequacy of the content and features.Moreover, RumourHealth also wants to bring an initiative like Salud sin Bulos, Trueinchain, to other countries of the European Union. This initiative provides the citizens with a platform to consult and report health-related misinformation.

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