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

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Influenza Other Respi Viruses. 2013 Sep;7 Suppl 2:114-9. doi: 10.1111/irv.12090.
Unresolved issues in risk communication research: the case of the H1N1 pandemic (2009-2011).
Barrelet C, Bourrier M, Burton-Jeangros C, Schindler M.
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Department of Sociology, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland.
Abstract

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.

? 2013 Blackwell Publishing Ltd.
KEYWORDS:

Global health, health risk communication, pandemic, risk perception, rumors, vaccination

PMID:
24034495
[PubMed - in process]

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24034495