The health link between housing and the early death of women is a concern worthy of effective communication worldwide. It is not enough, however, to wish its validity without care and attention to the truth of the assertion.
An article with the follow title — Women Die Young In The Country Of Homelessness — appeared on November 19, 2017 in this blog. On what basis should it’s validity be accepted?
There is a growing international concern that reports of heath data and health practices may be inaccurate. Worse, they may deliberately fraudulent. Since health is strongly linked to housing, the same concerns may be underpinned by misinformation about shelter, both temporary and permanent.
You, or your organization might set out to inform others of the vital health considerations that underlie a lack of housing for women. This kind of information may be asserted with authority, but without any particular validation. Increasingly, or so the press can be discovered reporting, more validation is needed.
A number of major news and information sources available worldwide present this kind of information and can generally be trusted to do a good job of it. Here’s a recent article from the New York Times that sounds the alarm on this issue: Health Misinformation Is Evolving. Here’s How to Spot It.
You may note that no active link is provided to this article. The New York Times is paywalled, and its warning article is available only to subscribers. The details, however, are of interest not only to those who may naively swallow ignorant or malicious facts. They are useful for those who, with the best of intentions, may participate in a chain of misinformation.
If title of New York Times article is a warning, there are other agencies at work that can help people who are health-concerned and housing-concerned to recognize and avoid becoming tangled in webs of ignorance and/or deceit.
Here is the gateway to a publication providing guidance for recognising and avoiding health information mismanagement from John Hopkins University Hub: A New Playbook For Addressing Health Misinformation
