Book ID: CBB001250944

SARS Unmasked: Risk Communication of Pandemics and Influenza in Canada (2010)

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Tyshenko, Michael G (Author)
Paterson, Cathy (Author)


McGill-Queen's University Press


Publication Date: 2010
Physical Details: xii + 451 pp.; ill.; bibl.; index
Language: English

Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) was the first global pandemic of the twenty-first century, spreading within weeks from southern China to over thirty-seven countries around the world. In Canada intense news media coverage had a profound impact on how the disease was perceived, with frontline health care workers, despite their heroic efforts, stigmatized due to their contact with patients. 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. Taking a very broad perspective, grounded in risk assessment, SARS Unmasked adds important information to what has already been said about the 2003 crisis, focusing on the human and societal effects of an infectious disease pandemic and providing tangible guidance for future pandemic threats.

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Authors & Contributors
Keck, Frédéric
Man-Kong, Wong
Leung, Yuen-Sang
Gillick, Muriel R.
Mason, Katherine
Jong-Koo Lee
Concepts
Public health
Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS)
Epidemics
Infectious diseases
Disease and diseases
Medicine
Time Periods
21st century
20th century
20th century, late
20th century, early
19th century
Places
Canada
China
Hong Kong
Taiwan
Singapore
South Korea
Institutions
World Health Organization (WHO)
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