Abstract
This chapter reviews the role of media in preventing the spread of COVID-19, summarizing a selection of key ideas and examples on previous scientific studies. As a result, the role of media is crucial in the prevention of the COVID-19 spread today. It is very important for it to reflect actual, honest facts, informing the public with accuracy and objectivity and without causing any distress whilst in cooperation with the global health institutions. It is obvious that all forms of media play a very important role by raising public awareness about the importance of wearing masks, maintaining social distance, taking care of hand and body hygiene.
TopResults
The serious intense respiratory disorder COVID-19 pandemic has had a noteworthy affect on worldwide wellbeing, economy and society as its entirety. Different measures are being taken to avoid the fast spread, with digital media playing a pivotal part, particularly within the utilisation of visual information to spread data, versatile wellbeing to arrange restorative assets and to promote open wellbeing campaigns. However, advanced media moreover faces a few challenges like deception, need of direction, and data spillage. This study observes recent academic and practice based research papers in this field and highlight key takeaways from the relationship between media and public health.
“We encourage the increased use of digital media with a focus on improving trust, building social solidarity, reducing chaos, educating the public on prevention measures, and reducing the medical burden in facility-based sites (Bao, Cao, Xiong, & Tang, 2020).”
Bao H., Cao and their colleagues in their research published in 2020, reported that social media plays a very important role in communicating the COVID-19 outbreak to the public all over the world and managing medical resources. They advocate the utilization of advanced media with building social solidarity, decreasing chaos, teaching the open on avoidance measures, and diminishing the therapeutic burden in facility-based destinations. Similarly, in a study conducted in 2020, Yigitcanlar and colleagues stated that there is a strong relationship between the information in the media and the contamination case information, and thus, it is important to look at the interaction between the spread of the disease and the media to reduce the spread of COVID-19.
Key Terms in this Chapter
Education: The act or process of imparting or acquiring general knowledge, developing the powers of reasoning and judgment, and generally of preparing oneself or others intellectually for mature life.
Quarantina: A period of time during which a vehicle, person, or material suspected of carrying a contagious disease is detained at a port of entry under enforced isolation to prevent disease from entering a country.
Transmission: Transmission is the act of transferring something from one spot to another, like a radio or TV broadcast, or a disease going from one person to another. Transmission can also be a communication sent out by radio or television, while the transmission of a disease is the passing of that virus or bacteria between people.
Humans: May refer to that which is, or should be, characteristic of human beings. In thus describing characteristics.
Media: The means of communication, as radio and television, newspapers, magazines, and the internet, that reach or influence people widely.
Pneumonia: An acute disease of the lungs, caused by the bacterium Streptococcus pneumoniae and characterized by fever, a cough with blood-tinged phlegm, and difficult breathing.
Epidemiology: The study, assessment, and analysis of public health concerns in a given population; the tracking of patterns and effects of diseases, environmental toxins, natural disasters.
COVID-19: Short for co(rona)vi(rus) d(isease) (20)19 , the year in which the outbreak of the disease was first identified; so named by the World Health Organization in 2020.
Social media: Websites and other online means of communication that are used by large groups of people to share information and to develop social and professional contacts.
Corona Virus: A potentially severe, primarily respiratory illness caused by a coronavirus and characterized by fever, coughing, and shortness of breath. In some patients, the disease can also damage major organs, as the heart or kidneys.
Viral Diseases: Virus , explained in everyday words, is an extremely tiny particle that causes an infectious disease. It is generally made up of some RNA or DNA coated in protein. It can only multiply in the cell of hosts that are alive. That means, technically, viruses are not themselves living.
Pandemics: An epidemic (a sudden outbreak) that becomes very widespread and affects a whole region, a continent, or the world due to a susceptible population. By definition, a true pandemic causes a high degree of mortality (death).