Health promotion in the age of artificial intelligence, climate change and misinformation: A framework for building digital and community resilience

Emmanuel Ikechukwu Obi¹, Thaddeus Chijioke Asogwa² and Victor Ositadinma Nvene³

¹Department of Community Medicine, University of Nigeria, Nsukka, Nigeria.

²Department of Community Medicine and Primary Health Care, Enugu State University College of Medicine, Enugu, Nigeria.

³Institute of Public Health, College of Medicine, University of Nigeria, Ituku/Ozalla, Enugu, Nigeria.

Correspondence: Emmanuel Ikechukwu Obi, Department of Community Medicine, University of Nigeria, Nsukka, Nigeria. Email: ikechukwu.obi@unn.edu.ng

ABSTRACT

Health promotion is entering a period of unprecedented complexity. Artificial intelligence, climate change and rapidly evolving misinformation ecosystems are transforming how individuals access information, perceive risks and make health-related decisions. Although these forces are often examined separately, they increasingly interact to influence health behaviour, public trust, mental wellbeing and community resilience. Artificial intelligence can expand access to personalised health information and scalable interventions, yet it can also amplify misinformation and widen inequities. Climate change is creating new health threats while increasing psychological distress, uncertainty and social vulnerability. Misinformation undermines health literacy, weakens trust in institutions and reduces adherence to evidence-based recommendations. We argue that health promotion must move beyond traditional information provision and individual behaviour-change models towards a resilience-oriented framework that addresses these interconnected challenges. We propose a Digital and Community Resilience Promotion Framework that integrates digital health literacy, artificial intelligence literacy and governance, climate-health literacy, misinformation resilience, trusted community networks, youth engagement, mental wellbeing promotion, social participation and equity-centred implementation. The framework positions resilience as a core health promotion outcome and offers a practical pathway for strengthening adaptive capacity in a rapidly changing technological, environmental and information landscape.

Keywords: health promotion; artificial intelligence; climate change; misinformation; digital health literacy; community resilience; health literacy; public health.

CITE AS: Emmanuel Ikechukwu Obi, Thaddeus Chijioke Asogwa and Victor Ositadinma Nvene (2026). Health promotion in the age of artificial intelligence, climate change and misinformation: A framework for building digital and community resilience. Research Output Journal of Biological and Applied Science 6(1):83-89. https://doi.org/10.59298/ROJBAS/2026/618389