{
  "id": 14241,
  "url": "https://www.jmir.org/2026/1/e79410",
  "title": "Defining Health Misinformation: Theoretical Concept Analysis",
  "summary": "Background: Health misinformation is a serious and growing concern, especially in the era of mass digitalization. However, the term lacks conceptual clarity, reducing our ability to build a reliable, replicable evidence base about how misinformation works and undermining our attempts to develop effective responses. There is, therefore, a need to examine how the term is used and to develop a coherent definition that better reflects people’s information priorities, concerns, and understandings of",
  "authors": "Johanna Saia Pope, Paula Byrne, Declan Devane, Tina D Purnat, Maura Dowling",
  "category": "research",
  "topics": "misinformation,healthcare",
  "orgs": null,
  "regions": null,
  "published_at": "2026-07-28T12:00:03.000Z",
  "fetched_at": "2026-07-29T05:10:12.205Z",
  "source_slug": "x-jmir-journal-of-medical-internet-researc",
  "source_name": "JMIR (Journal of Medical Internet Research)",
  "source_homepage": "https://www.jmir.org",
  "ethics_ai_record_url": "https://ethics.ai/record/14241",
  "original_url": "https://www.jmir.org/2026/1/e79410",
  "evidence_status": "source-only",
  "attribution": "via ethics.ai"
}