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| Risk Communication in Public Health Emergencies: Practical Guidance Rooted in Theory |
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ISBN: 978-1-00-944903-8,
335 pages,
Soft Cover
ISBN-10: 1-00-944903-6 |
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| Copyright: |
2025 |
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| Edition: |
1st |
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| Editor: |
Melville, Kathleen G. V., PhD |
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Public Health |
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| Publisher: |
Cambridge University Press |
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| List Price: |
$79.99 |
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At A Glance
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This book clearly explains how public health officials plan, deliver, and evaluate crisis and emergency risk communication before, during, and after health emergencies. Organized into four parts - precrisis planning, communicating during a health emergency, communicating and evaluating after a health emergency, and crisis leadership - it offers practical information as well as the opportunity to reflect on emergency risk communication best practices and theories. Including information on precrisis planning, implications of public health law, developing communication plans, writing messages, evaluating emergency risk communication, and crisis leadership, this book brings together theory and practical application to provide working professionals with evidence-based research and practical knowledge to effectively communicate during health emergencies. Case studies of emergencies such as COVID-19, Zika, Ebola, Mpox, and water crises all use the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Crisis and Emergency Risk Communication framework to analyze how health officials provided accurate and actionable health information to the public.
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Reviewer:
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Anna Helm,
BS, MPH
(Multnomah County)
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Are the author's objectives met? |
10 |
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Rate the worthiness of those objectives. |
10 |
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Is this written at an appropriate level? |
5 |
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Is there significant duplication? (1=significant, 5=insignificant) |
5 |
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Are there significant omissions? (1=significant, 5=insignificant) |
5 |
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Rate the authority of the authors. |
5 |
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Are there sufficient references? |
5 |
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Rate the currency of the references. |
5 |
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Rate the pertinence of the references. |
5 |
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Rate the helpfulness of the index. |
4 |
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If important in this specialty, rate the physical appearance of the book |
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Is this a worthwhile contribution to the field? |
10 |
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If this is a 2nd or later edition, is this new edition needed? |
N/A |
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Reviewer:
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Anna Helm,
BS, MPH
(Multnomah County)
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Description
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| This book makes excellent use of and builds on CDC's Crisis and Emergency Risk Communication: CERC Framework and Phase-Based Messaging Model to demonstrate how professionals caught up in the immediacy of a crisis can accurately explain and communicate actionable health information and help those impacted accurately understand and grasp the importance and urgency of the situation. It explores the relevance of risk perception and health beliefs to emergency risk communication. The book explains the importance of pre-crisis planning and thorough evaluation and analysis following the event, as well as the necessity for there to be ongoing open, honest, empathic, respectful, and accurate communication while promoting action during a crisis. |
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Purpose
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| The objective of the book is to make available knowledge to help prevent severe negative health impacts that might arise due to future crises. To that end, it thoroughly evaluates and analyzes what went wrong during the COVID-19 pandemic and other recent health crises with the goal of making those findings available as learning opportunities that might be used to enhance pre-crisis planning and improve risk communication during any health crisis. The emphasis is on the education and provision of information and tools necessary to all current and future public health leaders, providers of health care, emergency management officials, and graduate students to successfully plan, create, disseminate, and evaluate emergency risk communication during health crises. |
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Audience
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| The intended audience is public health leaders, medical doctors, health care providers, emergency management officials, and graduate students. Those involved in the management and communication of risk regarding natural disasters such as wildfires, severe storms, and earthquakes will also find the book beneficial, as will those responsible for disseminating information regarding the impact of violent civil unrest and warfare. |
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Features
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| The book makes superb use of case studies to demonstrate what went well as well as what could have been improved upon. It thoroughly evaluates and analyzes each case. The book explores the strengths and weaknesses of the communities and how they contributed to the crisis or impeded the response. How those strengths could be enhanced and the weaknesses remediated are demonstrated via evaluation and analysis. The book explains the importance of understanding and exploring the current capabilities of a community and discusses how to address those, whether they are strengths or weaknesses. |
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Assessment
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| It is difficult to overstate the importance and potential contribution this book can make to the field. It is accessible, very well written and provides essential information and knowledge useful to all professionals who work in any occupation that engages in the protection of, or provides care to, individuals or communities. And while intended for those in public health, health care, and related emergency health management, it will be very useful to any professional responsible for conveying to the public accurate, current, empathic and respectful, actionable information regarding the risk they are currently facing. |
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