Keywords
Disease
Social media
Disease eradication
Vaccination coverage
Vaccine hesitancy
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Abstract
Objective: To understand the influence of fake news on vaccination and its relationship to the increase in diseases. Methods: Integrative review of 19 articles with bibliographic search in the National Library of Medicine and National Institutes of Health (PubMed), Virtual Health Library (BVS) and Google Scholar search engine databases. The descriptors used were: “vaccine”, “disease”, “social media”, “disease eradication” and “vaccinal coverage”. The inclusion criteria were articles published between 2017 and 2022 that answered the guiding question “what is the impact of fake news on vaccination and its relationship to the increase in diseases?” Results: The main influences of fake news on vaccination were vaccine hesitancy, misinformation, low vaccination coverage and the reemergence of eradicated diseases, all closely linked, since the dissemination of negative content about the vaccine generates a decrease in vaccination adherence, making it difficult the immunization of the herd and favoring the propagation of pathologies that could be prevented. Final considerations: Fake news generates a great impact on vaccination and worsens the global epidemiological picture. It is noted that it is necessary to prepare more articles relating the influence of fake news that influence the decrease in vaccination and the consequent reappearance of eradicated diseases.
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