Berube Pandemic Communication and Resilience

1. Auflage 2021
ISBN: 978-3-030-77344-1
Verlag: Springer International Publishing
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 401 Seiten, eBook

Reihe: Risk, Systems and Decisions

This book examines how we design and deliver health communication messages relating to outbreaks, epidemics, and pandemics. We have experienced major changes to how the public receives and searches for information about health crises over  the last twelve decades with the ongoing shift from text/broadcast-based to digital messaging and social media. Both health theories and practices are examined as it applies to testing, tracking, hoarding, therapeutics, and vaccines with case studies. Challenges to communicate about health to diverse audiences (including the science illiterate) and across (both Western and developing economies) have been complicated by politics, norms and mores, personal heuristics, and biases, such as mortality salience, news avoidance, and quarantine fatigue. Issues of economic development and land use, trade and transportation, and even climate change have increased the exposure of human populations to infectious diseases making risk and resilience more pressing.

The book has been designed to support health communicators and public health management professionals, students, and interested stakeholders and university libraries.

Zielgruppe

Professional/practitioner

Autoren/Hrsg.

Berube, David M.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Section 1 – History of Pandemic CommunicationSection 2 – Pandemic Communication Modes 
Section 3 – Health and Pandemic Communication Models.
Section 4 – Communication Challenges. 
Section 5 – Communication Multipliers: Why this will only get worse!
Section 6 – Safety and Precaution Communication 
Section 7 – Communication Case Studies