COVID-19 -

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Editeur : Routledge

Langue : Anglais

Parution : 01/11/2022

Format : Moyen, de 350g à 1kg

Nombre de pages : 310.0

Expédition : 694

Dimensions : 24.4 x 17.0 x 2.1

ISBN : 1032326743

Résumé :
This book looks at COVID-19, along with other recent infectious disease outbreaks, with the broad aim of providing constructive lessons and critical reflections from across a wide range of perspectives and disciplinary interests within the risk analysis field. A few chapters also discuss past disease outbreaks, like Zika, Ebola and MERS-CoV....

Biographie:

Jamie Wardman is Assistant Professor of Risk Management at Nottingham University Business School, UK. His research is primarily focussed on the sociology of risk and the theory and practice of risk communication as this relates to such issues as organisational operations, science and technology controversies, emergency preparedness, crisis response, public policy, and health and safety. He is particularly interested in how sociocultural perspectives on risk and its representation can help inform risk management policy design, operations and evaluation.

Ragnar E. L?fstedt is Professor of Risk Management and the Director of King's Centre for Risk Management, UK, where he teaches and conducts research on risk communication and management. Ragnar has conducted research in risk communication and management in such areas as renewable energy policy, transboundary environmental issues (acid rain and nuclear power), health and safety, telecommunications, biosafety, pharmaceuticals, and the siting of the building of incinerators, fuel policy, nuclear waste installations and railways.

Sommaire:

Introduction - COVID- 19: confronting a new world risk 1. COVID- 19: reflections on trust, tradeoffs, and preparedness 2. The COVID- 19 pandemic: how can risk science help? 3. Does the COVID- 19 pandemic refute probability neglect? 4. COVID- 19 infection and death rates: the need to incorporate causal explanations for the data and avoid bias in testing 5. Bayesian network analysis of Covid- 19 data reveals higher infection prevalence rates and lower fatality rates than widely reported 6. Resilience in the face of uncertainty: early lessons from the COVID- 19 pandemic 7. Backing up emergency teams in healthcare and law enforcement organizations: strategies to socialize newcomers in the time of COVID- 19 8. Comparative risk science for the coronavirus pandemic 9. Predictors of expressing and receiving information on social networking sites during MERS- CoV outbreak in South Korea 10. Public health emergency response coordination: putting the plan into practice 11. Outbreak! Socio- cognitive motivators of risk information sharing during the 2018 South Korean MERS- CoV epidemic 12. Risk communication in a double public health crisis: the case of Ebola and cholera in Ghana 13. From information to intervention: connecting risk communication to individual health behavior and community- level health interventions during the 2016 Zika outbreak 14. Risk perceptions of COVID- 19 around the world 15. Mismanagement of Covid- 19: lessons learned from Italy 16. The paradox of trust: perceived risk and public compliance during the COVID- 19 pandemic in Singapore 17. Managing the Covid- 19 pandemic through individual responsibility: the consequences of a world risk society and enhanced ethopolitics 18. Be alarmed. Some reflections about the COVID- 19 risk communication in Germany 19. Did the world overlook the media's early warning of COVID- 19? 20. Fact- checking as risk communication: the multi- layered risk of misinformation in times of COVID- 19 21. Pandemic democracy: elections and COVID- 19 22. Survival at the expense of the weakest? Managing modern slavery risks in supply chains during COVID- 19 23. COVID- 19 risk governance: drivers, responses and lessons to be learned 24. 'A monstrous threat': how a state of exception turns into a 'new normal' 25. Recalibrating pandemic risk leadership: thirteen crisis ready strategies for COVID- 19