SARS unmasked : risk communication of pandemics and influenza in Canada / Michael G. Tyshenko ; with assistance from Cathy Paterson.

Title
  1. SARS unmasked : risk communication of pandemics and influenza in Canada / Michael G. Tyshenko ; with assistance from Cathy Paterson.
Published by
  1. Montreal : McGill-Queen's University Press, 2010.
Author
  1. Tyshenko, Michael G. (Michael George), 1964-

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Additional authors
  1. Paterson, Cathy.
Description
  1. xii, 451 p. : ill.; 24 cm.
Series statement
  1. McGill-Queen's/Associated Medical Services studies in the history of medicine, health, and society ; 34
Uniform title
  1. McGill-Queen's/Associated Medical Services studies in the history of medicine, health, and society ; 34.
Subject
  1. Canada
  2. Canada > epidemiology
  3. Communicable diseases > Risk factors > Canada
  4. Disease Notification > methods
  5. Disease Outbreaks > prevention & control
  6. Health risk communication > Canada
  7. Information Dissemination
  8. Maladies infectieuses > Facteurs de risque > Canada
  9. Risk Factors
  10. Risques pour la santé > Communication > Canada
  11. SARS (Disease) > Risk factors > Canada
  12. SARS (Disease) > Toronto
  13. Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome > epidemiology
  14. Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome > prevention & control
  15. Syndrome respiratoire aigu sévère > Facteurs de risque > Canada
  16. Syndrome respiratoire aigu sévère > Toronto
Contents
  1. Part one: SARS in Canada. SARS timeline : what happened when in Canada -- Emergency room culture and dealing with SARS -- Properties of coronaviruses and factors contributing to SARS transmission -- The SARS experience -- The social amplification of rish and SARS as a risk issue -- The stigma of SARS and its effect on people and places -- The need for sex- and gender-sensitive supports for healthcare workers during infectious disease outbreaks -- SARS hospitals and infectious disease response -- Public SARS reports : recommendations from expert panels -- Part two: Risk Communication and pandemic disease. Risk communication of SARS in Canada -- SARS and risk communication in other affected countries -- Avian influenza -- Emergancy preparedness for future pandemics : lessons from SARS.
Owning institution
  1. Harvard Library
Bibliography (note)
  1. Includes bibliographical references and index.
Processing action (note)
  1. committed to retain