PAGB Digital Week, Day 5: Challenges And Opportunities For Digital Self-Care

 
• By Tom Gallen and David Ridley
  
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The final day of PAGB's Digital Week focused on digital self-care and featured sessions on understanding human behavior, the problem of online health misinformation and how best to navigate the new post-COVID reality.

• Source: PAGB

Opening the final day of PAGB’s Digital Week, Dr Sarah Jarvis spoke about the “essential” need to continue to educate consumers about when it is appropriate to self-care to reduce the burden on overworked general practitioners. A key element of this was helping people to find reputable information, Jarvis noted, particularly given the rise of health misinformation which has spread across social media during the pandemic.

The patient.info website was one trustworthy source for general health information, as well as self-care advice, she pointed out,...

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