Risk and Outbreak Communication: Lessons from Taiwan's Experiences in the Post-SARS Era
| Autor: | Yu Chen Hsu, Yu Ling Chen, Han Ning Wei, Yu Wen Yang, Ying Hwei Chen |
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| Rok vydání: | 2017 |
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Risk analysis
Risk Health (social science) Health Toxicology and Mutagenesis Taiwan Management Monitoring Policy and Law Public opinion Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Communicable Diseases Emerging Disease Outbreaks Risk communication 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine Medicine Civic engagement Humans Social media 030212 general & internal medicine Mass Media Simulation Mass media Crisis communication SARS 030505 public health business.industry Communication Public Health Environmental and Occupational Health Public relations Transparency (behavior) Public health preparedness/response One Health Special Feature: Assessing Taiwan's Health Security CapabilitiesA Model for Global Health SecurityEric S. Toner Tara Kirk Sell and Matthew Shearer Issue Editors Emergency Medicine 0305 other medical science business Safety Research Pandemic influenza |
| Zdroj: | Health Security |
| ISSN: | 2326-5108 2326-5094 2009-2016 |
| DOI: | 10.1089/hs.2016.0111 |
| Popis: | In addition to the impact of a disease itself, public reaction could be considered another outbreak to be controlled during an epidemic. Taiwan's experience with SARS in 2003 highlighted the critical role played by the media during crisis communication. After the SARS outbreak, Taiwan's Centers for Disease Control (Taiwan CDC) followed the WHO outbreak communication guidelines on trust, early announcements, transparency, informing the public, and planning, in order to reform its risk communication systems. This article describes the risk communication framework in Taiwan, which has been used to respond to the 2009-2016 influenza epidemics, Ebola in West Africa (2014-16), and MERS-CoV in South Korea (2015) during the post-SARS era. Many communication strategies, ranging from traditional media to social and new media, have been implemented to improve transparency in public communication and promote civic engagement. Taiwan CDC will continue to maintain the strengths of its risk communication systems and resolve challenges as they emerge through active evaluation and monitoring of public opinion to advance Taiwan's capacity in outbreak communication and control. Moreover, Taiwan CDC will continue to implement the IHR (2005) and to promote a global community working together to fight shared risks and to reach the goal of "One World, One Health." |
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