Compliant, complacent or panicked? Investigating the problematisation of the Australian general public in pandemic influenza control

Social Science and Medicine

Volumn 72, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 912-918

  Davis, Mark ^a   Stephenson, Niamh ^b   Flowers, Paul ^c  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^c GLASGOW CALEDONIAN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Australia; Communication; H1N1; Pandemic influenza; Panic; Policy; Public

Indexed keywords

COMMUNICATION; COMPLIANCE; DISEASE CONTROL; EPIDEMIC; GUIDELINE; HEALTH POLICY; INFLUENZA; PUBLIC ATTITUDE;

2009 H1N1 INFLUENZA; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; GOVERNMENT; HUMAN; INFECTION CONTROL; INFLUENZA VIRUS A H1N1; MASS COMMUNICATION; MEDICAL INFORMATION; PANDEMIC INFLUENZA; PANIC; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PROGRAM DEVELOPMENT; PUBLIC HEALTH PROBLEM; SOCIAL MEDICINE;

ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; AUSTRALIA; COMMUNICABLE DISEASE CONTROL; COMMUNICATION; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; FEAR; FEMALE; HEALTH POLICY; HUMANS; INFLUENZA A VIRUS, H1N1 SUBTYPE; INFLUENZA, HUMAN; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; MALE; PUBLIC HEALTH;

AUSTRALIA;

EID: 79953076418     PISSN: 02779536     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2011.01.016     Document Type: Article

References (41)

1. AHMPPI Australian health management plan for pandemic influenza: Important information for all Australians 2008, Australian Government, Department of Health and Ageing, ISBN:1-74186-768-1., Canberra.
2. Bootsma M.C.J., Ferguson N.M. The effect of public health measures on the 1918 influenza pandemic in U.S. cities. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States 2007, 104(18):7588-7593.
3. Catton M., Druce J., Birch C. Australia's influenza containment plan and the swine flu epidemic in Victoria. Medical Journal of Australia 2009, (Rapid online publication 24 July).
4. CDC 2009 H1N1 flu (swine flu) and you 2009, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Accessed 15.09.09. http://www.cdc.gov/h1n1flu/qa.htm.
5. Chan, C. K. (2010). Equitable access to pandemic flu vaccines. In Paper presented at the conference on strengthening health and non-health response systems in Asia: A sustained approach for responding to global infectious disease.
6. Chapman, S. (2006). The Australian Health News Collaboration: opportunities for health news studies in 11,000 television news digital clips on health. In Paper presented at the discourse and health conference, University of Western Sydney, 23-24 November.
7. Cohen D., Carter P. WHO and the pandemic flu " conspiracies" BMJ 3 Jun 2010, 340:c2912.
8. Collier S.J., Lakoff A., Rabinow P. Biosecurity: towards an anthropology of the contemporary. Anthropology Today 2004, 20(5):3-7.
9. Cooper M. Pre-empting emergence: the biological turn in the war on terror. Theory, Culture & Society 2006, 23:113-136.
10. Davies S. Global politics of health 2009, Polity, Cambridge.
11. Dean M. Governmentality: Power and rule in modern societies 1999, Sage, London.
12. DHA National pandemic influenza exercise - Exercise cumpston 06 report 2007, Commonwealth Department of Health & Aging, Office of Health Protection, ACT.
13. DHA Australian influenza surveillance summary report, no 27, 2009, reporting period: 7 November 2009-13 November 2009 2009, Australian Government, Department of Health and Ageing, Canberra.
14. Eizenberg P. The general practice experience of the swine flu epidemic in Victoria - lessons from the front line. Medical Journal of Australia 3 August 2009, 191(3):151-153. (Rapid online publication 1 July).
15. Elbe, S. (2010). Global health security: toward the medicalisation of insecurity. In Paper presented at the annual convention of the International Studies Association.
16. Ferguson N., Cummings D., Cauchemez S., et al. Strategies for containing an emerging influenza pandemic in Southeast Asia. Nature 8 September 2005, 437:209-214.
17. Ferguson N., Cummings D., Fraser C., et al. Strategies for mitigating an influenza epidemic. Nature 27 July 2006, 442.
18. Fidler D. A pathology of public health securitism: approaching pandemics as security threats. Covering global health: Challenge, response, innovation 2007, 41-66. Ashgate, Aldershot. A. Cooper, J. Kriten, T. Schecher (Eds.).
19. Foucault M. Security, territory, population: Lectures at the College de France, 1977-78 2007, (G. Burchell, Trans.), Palgrave Macmillan, London.
20. Fourie P. The relationship between the AIDS pandemic and state fragility. Global Change, Peace & Security 2007, 19(3):281-300.
21. Garoon J.P., Duggan P.S. Discourses of disease, discourses of disadvantage: a critical analysis of national pandemic influenza preparedness plans. Social Science & Medicine 2008, 67(7):1133-1142.
22. Grayson M., Johnson P. Australia's influenza containment plan and the swine flu epidemic in Victoria. Medical Journal of Australia 3 August 2009, 191(3):150. (Rapid online publication 17 June).
23. Guttman N. Public health communication interventions: Values and ethical dilemmas 2000, Sage, Oakland, CA.
24. Janssen A., Tardif R., Landry S., Warner J. " Why tell me now?" The public and healthcare providers weigh in on pandemic influenza messages. Journal of Public Health Management and Practice 2006, 12(4):388-394.
25. King N. Security, disease, commerce: ideologies of postcolonial global health. Social Studies of Science 2002, 32(5-6):763-789.
26. Lakoff A. Preparing for the next emergency. Public Culture 2007, 19(1):247-271.
27. Lakoff A. The generic biothreat, or, how we became unprepared. Cultural Anthropology 2008, 23(3):399-428.
28. Biosecurity interventions: Global health and security in question 2008, Columbia University Press, New York. A. Lakoff, S. Collier (Eds.).
29. May T. Public communication, risk perception, and the viability of preventive vaccinations against communicable diseases. Bioethics 2005, 19(4):407-421.
30. NAP. (2009). National action plan for human influenza pandemic, Council-of-Australian-Governments. Working Group on Australian Influenza Pandemic Prevention and Preparedness. The Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet, ISBN 0-978-1-921385-04-9.
31. NATO Policy implications of the risk society 2005, Draft report 171 ESC 05 E, NATO Parliamentary Assembly, Accessed 20.12.07 (171 ESC 05 E bis). http://www.nato-pa.int/Default.asp?CAT2=1159%26CAT1=16%26CAT0=576%26shortcut=798.
32. Papadopoulos D., Stephenson N., Tsianos V. Escape routes: Power and control in the 21st century 2008, Pluto, London.
33. Rubin G., Amlot R., Page L., Wessely S. Public perceptions, anxiety, and behaviour change in relation to the swine flu outbreak: cross sectional telephone survey. British Medical Journal 2009, 339. (Online first).
34. Seale H., McLaws M., Heywood A., et al. The community's attitude towards swine flu and pandemic influenza. Medical Journal of Australia 2009, 191(5):267-269.
35. The-Australian Swine flu parties are totally nuts: expert. The Australian 8 May 2009, Accessed 15 September. http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,25444446-5018985,00.html.
36. UN-Security-Council Resolution 1308 Retrieved from. http://data.unaids.org/pub/basedocument/2000/20000717_un_scresolution_1308_en.pdf.
37. VHMPI Victorian health management for pandemic influenza 2007, Communicable Disease Control Unit, Rural and Regional Health and Aged Care Services, Victorian Department of Human Services, Available at: http://www.health.vic.gov.au/ideas Accessed 15.09.09.
38. WHO International health regulations 2005, World Health Organisation, ISBN:978 92 4 158041 0., Geneva.
39. WHO Responding to the avian influenza pandemic threat. Recommended strategic action Retrieved from. http://www.who.int/csr/resources/publications/influenza/WHO_CDS_CSR_GIP_05_8-EN.pdf.
40. WHO A safer future: Global public health security in the 21st century 2007, WHO, ISBN:978 92 4 156344 4., Geneva.
41. Wraith C., Stephenson N. Risk, insurance, preparedness & the disappearance of the population: the case of pandemic influenza. Health Sociology Review 2009, 18(3):220-233.