| Description |
1 online resource (xii, 451 pages) |
| Series |
McGill-Queen's/Associated Medical Services studies in the history of medicine, health, and society ; 34 |
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McGill-Queen's/Associated Medical Services studies in the history of medicine, health, and society ; 34.
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| Contents |
Part one: SARS in Canada. SARS timeline : what happened when in Canada -- Emergency room culture and dealing with SARS -- Properties of coronaviruses and factors contributing to SARS transmission -- The SARS experience -- The social amplification of risk and SARS as a risk issue -- The stigma of SARS and its effect on people and places -- The need for sex- and gender-sensitive supports for healthcare workers during infectious disease outbreaks -- SARS hospitals and infectious disease response -- Public SARS reports : recommendations from expert panels -- Part two: Risk Communication and pandemic disease. Risk communication of SARS in Canada -- SARS and risk communication in other affected countries -- Avian influenza -- Emergancy preparedness for future pandemics : lessons from SARS |
| Summary |
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 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 401-440) and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Health risk communication -- Canada
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Communicable diseases -- Risk factors -- Canada
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SARS (Disease) -- Ontario -- Toronto
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SARS (Disease) -- Risk factors -- Canada
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Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome -- epidemiology
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Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome -- prevention & control
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Disease Notification -- methods
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Disease Outbreaks -- prevention & control
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Information Dissemination
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Risk Factors
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MEDICAL -- Forensic Medicine.
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MEDICAL -- Preventive Medicine.
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MEDICAL -- Public Health.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
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Health risk communication
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SARS (Disease)
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Canada |
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Canada
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Ontario -- Toronto
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Paterson, Cathy, author.
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| ISBN |
9780773576858 |
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0773576851 |
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