At your own risk
| Autor: | Candice A. Welhausen |
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| Rok vydání: | 2017 |
| Předmět: |
medicine.medical_specialty
030505 public health Knowledge management business.industry Public health Risk management tools General Medicine Public relations Participatory surveillance Visual rhetoric 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine Data visualization medicine Risk communication 030212 general & internal medicine Sociology 0305 other medical science business Risk assessment mHealth |
| Zdroj: | Communication Design Quarterly. 5:51-61 |
| ISSN: | 2166-1642 |
| Popis: | In this article, the author proposes that the emergence of digital, disease-tracking applications over the past ten years like HealthMap (healthmap.org) and Flu Near You (flunearyou.org) that allow non-experts to contribute information about emergent public health threats have facilitated a "do-it-yourself (DIY)" risk assessment ethic. Focusing in particular on Flu Near You (FNY), a crowdsourced, flu-tracking program, the author argues that some participants use the mapping feature to curate their own risk information experience in determining the preventative behaviors they may want to engage in (if any) to prevent flu. As outbreaks of infectious diseases increase (Smith et al., 2014), mHealth technologies like disease-tracking apps are evolving as an important risk assessment tool for both public health experts as well as non-expert, public audiences. Better understanding how non-experts use such information can inform not only the design of these apps but visual risk communication strategies more generally speaking. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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