Delivering risk information in a dynamic information environment: Framing and authoritative voice in Centers for Disease Control (CDC) and primetime broadcast news media communications during the 2014 Ebola outbreak

Social Science and Medicine

Volumn 169, Issue , 2016, Pages 42-49

  Kott, Anne ^a   Limaye, Rupali J ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Content analysis; Disease outbreaks; Ebola; Media; Preparedness; Risk communication

Indexed keywords

DISEASE CONTROL; DISEASE SPREAD; EBOLA VIRUS DISEASE; INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY; MASS MEDIA; PUBLIC HEALTH; RISK PERCEPTION;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EBOLA HEMORRHAGIC FEVER; HUMAN; MEASUREMENT ACCURACY; MEDICAL EXPERT; POLITICAL SYSTEM; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PUBLIC HEALTH; PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE; RISK ASSESSMENT; STORYTELLING; TELECOMMUNICATION; UNITED STATES; EPIDEMIC; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; MASS MEDIUM; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PROCEDURES; PSYCHOLOGY; STANDARDS; TRENDS;

CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION (U.S.); COMMUNICATION; COMMUNICATIONS MEDIA; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; HEMORRHAGIC FEVER, EBOLA; HUMANS; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; PUBLIC HEALTH; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84988606108     PISSN: 02779536     EISSN: 18735347     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2016.09.029     Document Type: Article

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