A flu by any other name: Why the world health organization should adopt the world meteorological association's storm naming system as a model for naming emerging infectious diseases

Journal of Health Communication

Volumn 17, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 532-545

  Schein, Rebecca ^a   Bruls, Sand ^a   Busch, Vincent ^a   Wilson, Kumanan ^b   Hershfield, Larry ^a   Keelan, Jennifer ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; COMMUNICABLE DISEASE; HUMAN; INFLUENZA; INFLUENZA VIRUS A H1N1; MEDICAL INFORMATION; METEOROLOGICAL PHENOMENA; METHODOLOGY; NOMENCLATURE; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PANDEMIC; PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; TRUST; UNITED STATES; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

COMMUNICABLE DISEASES, EMERGING; HEALTH COMMUNICATION; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; INFLUENZA A VIRUS, H1N1 SUBTYPE; INFLUENZA, HUMAN; METEOROLOGICAL CONCEPTS; PANDEMICS; PUBLIC HEALTH PRACTICE; STEREOTYPING; TERMINOLOGY AS TOPIC; TRUST; UNITED STATES; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

EID: 84861428512     PISSN: 10810730     EISSN: 10870415     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10810730.2011.626503     Document Type: Article

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