The avian influenza pandemic: Discourses of risk, contagion and preparation in Australia

Abeysinghe, Sudeepa; White, Kevin

doi:10.1080/13698575.2011.575457

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“…Case studies on H1N1, H5N1, and risks associated with mobile phones provide important insights on risk perceptions in general and pandemic influenza perceptions in particular.…”

Section: Resultsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Unresolved issues in risk communication research: the case of the H1N1 pandemic (2009–2011)

Barrelet

Bourrier

Burton-Jeangros

et al. 2013

Influenza Resp Viruses

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The 2009 H1N1 pandemic had considerable impact on risk perceptions, vaccination campaigns, and global health governance. In this context, risk communication issues have been probably the most puzzling and the least understood in retrospect. This article reviews the current knowledge on the following issues: risk and pandemic perceptions; vaccination perceptions and practices; rumors and rumor propagation; and health risk communication. It also highlights the research gaps in these areas that remain to be further explored in the future.

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“…Case studies on H1N1, H5N1, and risks associated with mobile phones provide important insights on risk perceptions in general and pandemic influenza perceptions in particular.…”

Section: Resultsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Unresolved issues in risk communication research: the case of the H1N1 pandemic (2009–2011)

Barrelet

Bourrier

Burton-Jeangros

et al. 2013

Influenza Resp Viruses

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“…Because we are interested in public health practice under conditions of uncertainty and guided by the plans and procedures of pandemic preparedness and control, our data are experiential accounts. Analyses abound of pandemic policies (Abeysinghe and White , Davis et al . , Durodie , Garoon and Duggan ) and public representations in news media (Nerlich and Halliday , Stephenson and Jamieson , Wallis and Nerlich ).…”

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confidence: 99%

‘We had to do what we thought was right at the time’: retrospective discourse on the 2009 H1N1 pandemic in the UK

Davis

Flowers

Stephenson

2013

Sociology Health & Illness

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For a few weeks in 2009 it was not certain whether the world faced a lethal influenza pandemic. As it turned out, the H1N1 pandemic was less severe than anticipated, though the infection did affect groups not usually susceptible to influenza. The deep uncertainties of this pandemic moment were associated with immense practical, scientific and political challenges for public health agencies around the world. We examine these challenges by drawing on the sociology of uncertainty to analyse the accounts given by UK public health practitioners who managed local responses to the pandemic. We discuss the retrospective and mitigating discourse; 'we had to do what we thought was right at the time', used by interviewees to explain their experience of articulating plans for a severe pandemic influenza with one that turned out to be mild. We explore the importance of influenza's history and imagined future for pandemic management and, relatedly, how pandemic response and control plans disrupted the normal ways in which public health exercises its authority. We conclude by suggesting that difficulties in the management of pandemic influenza lie in its particular articulation of precautions, that is, securing a safe future against that which cannot be predicted.

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“…Importantly, speculation on pandemic futures is not only a feature of science fiction or personal experience, but also visible in the public policy focus on preparedness (Abeysinghe and White 2011, Davis, Stephenson, and Flowers 2011, Garoon and Duggan 2008. As we noted in the previous chapter, both the United Kingdom and Australia had developed their first national pandemic response plans (United Kingdom Department of Health 2007, Australian Department of Health and Ageing 2008), just before the pandemic of 2009.…”

Section: Pandemic Futuresmentioning

confidence: 96%

Pandemic Tales

Davis¹,

Lohm²

2020

Pandemics, Publics, and Narrative

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Chapter 2 considers in more detail the growing significance of narrative approaches to health communication on pandemic threats, reflecting on the conceptual bases for this turn in light of perspectives from narrative theory and biopolitical accounts of infectious diseases. Key themes are the folk-tale undercurrents of pandemic narratives that appear in news media and in the advice of experts and therefore also their significance for the individuals who engage with them. A key point is that narrative and its mediations are a primary point of contact for publics coming to know of a rapidly emerging public health crisis. In this respect, we introduce Sarah’s story of how she realized that she was herself possibly at risk of the virus, in part because of stories on the pandemic circulated in media she consumed.

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The avian influenza pandemic: Discourses of risk, contagion and preparation in Australia

Cited by 28 publications

References 31 publications

Unresolved issues in risk communication research: the case of the H1N1 pandemic (2009–2011)

Unresolved issues in risk communication research: the case of the H1N1 pandemic (2009–2011)

‘We had to do what we thought was right at the time’: retrospective discourse on the 2009 H1N1 pandemic in the UK

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