Utilizing Effective Risk Communication In Covid 19

Author : Andy Lazris,Erik Rifkin
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 131 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2021-08-13
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9783030745219

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Utilizing Effective Risk Communication in COVID-19 by Andy Lazris,Erik Rifkin Pdf

This book demonstrates how a novel decision-aid, called a Benefit-Risk Characterization Theater (BRCT), can be used to: · Significantly improve accurate communication of health risks from exposure to COVID-19; and · Assess how to best contain and control COVID-19. To date, there have been far-reaching ramifications based on ineffective risk communication when clarifying these health endpoints. A BRCT is a familiar, theatrical chart representation of 1,000 people, with the risks and benefits shown by blackened seats. Since health outcomes can easily be put into such a chart, we show how BRCTs can be used objectively by professionals, the media and lay people. It allows characterization and communication of health benefits and risks of COVID-19 treatment and containment in an undemanding and straightforward way. BRCTs have been successfully used to assist patients in determining: · Their level of acceptable risk of various medical interventions; · If the benefits of intervention outweigh the risks; · Who should make the final decision regarding medical intervention; and · Whether the decision is evidence-based. Written by experts in the field, this book fills in a gap in communication between the medical community, the public and patients. It also provides an area of expertise in communication that is beneficial for medical providers and medical students.

Author : Timothy L. Sellnow,Deanna D. Sellnow
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 469 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2023-12-31
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110752502

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Communicating Risk and Safety by Timothy L. Sellnow,Deanna D. Sellnow Pdf

The world is wrought with risks that may harm people and cost lives. The news is riddled with reports of natural disasters (wildfires, floods, earthquakes, hurricanes), industrial disasters (chemical spills, water and air pollution), and health pandemics (e.g., SARS, H1NI, COVID19). Effective risk communication is critical to mitigating harms. The body of research in this handbook reveals the challenges of communicating such messages, affirms the need for dialogue, embraces the role of instruction in proactively communicating risk, acknowledges the function of competing risk messages, investigates the growing influence of new media, and constantly reconsiders the ethical imperative for communicating recommendations for enhanced safety.

Author : Professor Dr. Aziah binti Daud,Associate Professor Dr. Mohd Nazri bin Shafei,Dr. Tengku Alina binti Tengku Ismail
Publisher : Malaysia One Health University Network (MyOHUN)
Page : 54 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2022-02-25
Category : Medical
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Module for Risk Communication on Covid-19 by Professor Dr. Aziah binti Daud,Associate Professor Dr. Mohd Nazri bin Shafei,Dr. Tengku Alina binti Tengku Ismail Pdf

This module aims to equip frontline workers with useful materials in risk communication when dealing with the public. Four scopes of key information areas are covered, namely risk awareness, handling rumours or fake news, high-risk groups, and prevention activities for COVID-19. Through these scopes, frontline workers will gain the confidence to tackle a broad range of issues plaguing the public and so improve its attitude and practices towards prevention and control measures against COVID-19.

Author : Timothy L. Sellnow,Robert R. Ulmer,Matthew W. Seeger,Robert Littlefield
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 185 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2008-12-05
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9780387797274

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Effective Risk Communication by Timothy L. Sellnow,Robert R. Ulmer,Matthew W. Seeger,Robert Littlefield Pdf

Coordination of risk assessments and risk communication strategies requires information sharing and establishing networks of working relationships between groups and agencies. Establishing these relationships necessitates overcoming - stitutional, cultural, and political boundaries. Signi?cant barriers exist between r- ulatory agencies and industry groups. Traditionally, these groups have mistrusted one another, and cooperation and collaboration, including sharing information, c- respondingly has been limited. The adoption of radio frequency identi?cation te- nology for tracking livestock, for example, has been met with signi?cant resistance due in part to mistrust between regulatory agencies and producers (Veil, 2006). In the food industry, the need for coordination has been enhanced by industry in- gration and globalization of both markets and production. In the case of GM foods discussed earlier, disagreements between U. S. , European Union, and Canadian r- ulatory agencies fueled the debate over the safety of GM crops. Overcoming institutional and cultural barriers, and mistrust is necessary to create consistency in risk messages. Open communication and information sharing can help clarify where risk perceptions diverge and identify points of convergence. The outcome may not be universal agreement about risks, but convergence around the general parameters of risk. Summary These best practice strategies of risk communication are not designed to function as distinct steps or isolated approaches. Rather than being mutually exclusive, they serve to complement one another and create a coherent approach to confronting risk communication problems.

Author : Antoinette Fage-Butler
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 166 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2023-10-23
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781000987171

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Risk and Responsibilisation in Public Communication by Antoinette Fage-Butler Pdf

This book explores the connections between risk and responsibilisation in official communication to the public about the global risks of the pandemic and climate change. Our media spheres in the 2020s have been saturated with information about what we should or should not be doing to meet the challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic and climate change. Although the ability of risk communication to ‘responsibilise’ the public is central to its functioning in our societies, this aspect has so far been under-investigated in academia. To address this lacuna, Antoinette Fage-Butler develops a discursive approach to risk communication that focuses on the values that are communicated in risk messages. Examples of official risk communication about the pandemic and climate change from national and transnational contexts are analysed and compared, leading to new empirical findings and theoretical insights about the nature of risk and responsibilisation. Fage-Butler also builds on recent stirrings in the evolving field of risk communication that highlight the importance of cultural and value-related factors. Overall, this book will equip researchers with an approach to risk communication that reflects the complexity of today’s global risk challenges. Risk and Responsibilisation in Public Communication will be of great interest to students and scholars of risk communication, public health and environmental studies.

Author : Joseph Arvai,Louie Rivers III
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 387 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2013-10-30
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781136272349

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Effective Risk Communication by Joseph Arvai,Louie Rivers III Pdf

There are two questions often asked of risk communication: what has been learned from past work, and what is needed to push the field forward? Drawing on the experience of leading risk researchers and practitioners, Effective Risk Communication focuses on answering these questions. The book draws together new examples of research and practice from contexts as diverse as energy generation, human health, nuclear waste, climate change, food choice, and social media. This book treats risk communication as much more than the interchange of risk information between experts and non-experts; rather, it aims to emphasise the diversity in viewpoints and practices. In each specially commissioned chapter, the authors reflect on the theoretical and applied underpinnings of their best projects and comment on how their approach could be used effectively by others. Building upon each other, the chapters will provoke new discussion and action around a discipline which many feel is neither meeting important needs in practice, nor living up to its potential in research. Through a more careful examination of the work already done in risk communication, the book will help develop better, more reflective practice for the future.

Author : Devjani Sen,Rukhsana Ahmed
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2024
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 1032496827

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Communicating Effectively During a Health Crisis by Devjani Sen,Rukhsana Ahmed Pdf

Exploring how and why communication breakdowns occur during pandemics and world disasters, this book offers solutions for improving communication and managing future public health crises. A compilation of evidence-based lessons learned, this book shows how to effectively convey critical lifesaving information during a pandemic. It assesses how trust in leaders and governments during a public health crisis is formed and the impact this has on how information is perceived by the public. Using the COVID-19 pandemic as a case study, the book demonstrates how informative policy decisions and health risk messages can be better communicated for the handling of future pandemics. At a macro-level, the book looks at issues concerning situational awareness, how different countries managed or mismanaged the pandemic, and the lessons readers can learn from those occurrences. At a micro-level it examines individual differences in public health message perceptions and corresponding actions taken or not taken. An interdisciplinary critique of the delivery and reception of messages during global disasters, this text is suitable for undergraduate and graduate courses in Communication Studies, Health Communication, Risk Communication and Public Health, Psychology, Sociology, and Disaster Management.

Author : Anat Gesser-Edelsburg,Yaffa Shir-Raz
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2016-11-10
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317287919

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Risk Communication and Infectious Diseases in an Age of Digital Media by Anat Gesser-Edelsburg,Yaffa Shir-Raz Pdf

In a digital world where the public’s voice is growing increasingly strong, how can health experts best exert influence to contain the global spread of infectious diseases? Digital media sites provide an important source of health information, however are also powerful platforms for the public to air personal experiences and concerns. This has led to a growing phenomenon of civil skepticism towards health issues including Emerging Infectious Diseases and epidemics. Following the shift in the role of the public from recipients to a vocal entity, this book explores the different organizational strategies for communicating public health information and identifies common misconceptions that can inhibit effective communication with the public. Drawing on original research and a range of global case studies, this timely volume offers an important assessment of the complex dynamics at play in managing risk and informing public health decisions. Providing thought-provoking analysis of the implications for future health communication policy and practice, this book is primarily suitable for academics and graduate students interested in understanding how public health communication has changed. It may also be useful to health care professionals.

Author : Martin N. Ndlela
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2023-08
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1003401821

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Risk and Crisis Communication During the COVID-19 Pandemic by Martin N. Ndlela Pdf

"This book examines the challenges of communicating risk and crisis messages during the COVID-19 pandemic to provide recommendations for managing future global health crises. Given that outbreaks, epidemics, and pandemics are global crises that require global solutions, the book suggests that the world community needs to build resilient crisis management institutions and message management systems. Through international case studies, in-depth interviews, textual, content, narrative and document analysis, the book provides comprehensive accounts of how normative risk communication strategies were invoked, applied, disrupted, questioned, and changed during the COVID- 19 pandemic. It explores themes including crisis preparedness, outbreak communication, lockdown messages, communication uncertainty, risk message strategies and the challenges of information disorders to show that trust in supranational and national institutions is crucial for the effective management of future global public health crises. A thorough assessment of the multiple challenges faced by public health authorities and audiences during the COVID-19 pandemic, this book will be of interest to researchers, practitioners, and students in the field of Risk, Crisis and Health Communication and Public Health and Disaster Management"--

Author : Victoria Team,Rukhsana Ahmed,Mohan Jyoti Dutta,Audra Diers-Lawson
Publisher : Frontiers Media SA
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2024-01-16
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9782832543023

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COVID-19: Risk Communication and Blame by Victoria Team,Rukhsana Ahmed,Mohan Jyoti Dutta,Audra Diers-Lawson Pdf

Author : Stephen M. Croucher,Audra Diers-Lawson
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2023-02-28
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781000841558

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Pandemic Communication by Stephen M. Croucher,Audra Diers-Lawson Pdf

This book details how the processes of communication are affected by the presence of a pandemic and establishes a research agenda for those effects across the broad field of communication studies. Through contributions from experts in communication subdisciplines such as crisis, organizational, interpersonal, health, intergroup, and intercultural, this book provides the reader with a comprehensive view of the emerging field of study "pandemic communication." Each chapter has four primary objectives to: (1) define critical issues for pandemic communication from its subdiscipline’s perspective, (2) examine how communication varies during pandemic(s), (3) provide examples of how pandemic(s) havefor affected communication, and (4) propose a research agenda to build pandemic communication theory. This book is suited to undergraduate or post-graduate courses or modules in communication studies across a variety of subdisciplines as well as a reference for researchers in the subject.

Author : Michael G. Tyshenko,Cathy Paterson
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 361 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2010-03-19
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 9780773585140

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SARS Unmasked by Michael G. Tyshenko,Cathy Paterson Pdf

Will SARS or another pandemic influenza reoccur and, if it does, have we learned how to manage pandemics more effectively? In SARS Unmasked risk communication expert Michael Tyshenko offers answers to this and other questions. Cathy Paterson, who worked as a nurse clinician during the Toronto SARS crisis, adds an important view from the frontlines. Their analysis reveals an out-of-control situation with mixed risk communication messages, a lack of leadership, and an overwhelmed health care system that was unable to both cope with the crisis in Toronto and provide adequate support for their most valuable employees at the time - health care workers.

Author : World Health Organization
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9241550201

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Communicating Risk in Public Health Emergencies by World Health Organization Pdf

"During public health emergencies, people need to know what health risks they face, and what actions they can take to protect their health and lives. Accurate information provided early, often, and in languages and channels that people understand, trust and use, enables individuals to make choices and take actions to protect themselves, their families and communities from threatening health hazards." -- Publisher's description.

Author : Andrea Lombardinilo
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2024-06-11
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781349960842

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The Lure of Communication by Andrea Lombardinilo Pdf

Author : Regina E. Lundgren,Andrea H. McMakin
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 544 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2018-06-29
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781119456148

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Risk Communication by Regina E. Lundgren,Andrea H. McMakin Pdf

THE ESSENTIAL HANDBOOK FOR EFFECTIVELY COMMUNICATING ENVIRONMENTAL, SAFETY, AND HEALTH RISKS, FULLY REVISED AND UPDATED Now in its sixth edition, Risk Communication has proven to be a valuable resource for people who are tasked with the responsibility of understanding how to apply the most current approaches to care, consensus, and crisis communication. The sixth edition updates the text with fresh and illustrative examples, lessons learned, and recent research as well as provides advice and guidelines for communicating risk information in the United States and other countries. The authors help readers understand the basic theories and practices of risk communication and explain how to plan an effective strategy and put it into action. The book also contains information on evaluating risk communication efforts and explores how to communicate risk during and after an emergency. Risk Communication brings together in one resource proven scientific research with practical, hands-on guidance from practitioners with over 30 years of experience in the field. This important guide: Provides new examples of communication plans in government and industry, use of social media, dealing with "fake news," and new digital tools for stakeholder involvement and crisis communications Contains a new chapter on partnerships which covers topics such as assigning roles and expectations, ending partnerships, and more Presents real-world case studies with key lessons all risk communicators can apply. Written for engineers, scientists, professors and students, land use planners, public health practitioners, communication specialists, consultants, and regulators, the revised sixth edition of Risk Communication is the must-have guide for those who communicate risks.