Risk and Crisis Communication During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Muddled Messages

The book examines the challenges of communicating messages during the COVID-19 pandemic and provides recommendations for managing future global health crises. It explores themes such as crisis preparedness, outbreak communication, lockdown messages, communication uncertainty, risk message strategies, and the challenges of information disorders. Trust in supranational and national institutions is crucial for the effective management of future global public health crises.

Format: Hardback
Length: 190 pages
Publication date: 13 October 2023
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd

The COVID-19 pandemic has posed significant challenges to effective communication of messages, highlighting the need for global solutions to address future global health crises. This book examines the complexities of communicating during the pandemic and offers recommendations for managing future health emergencies. Recognizing that outbreaks, epidemics, and pandemics are global crises that require global responses, the book emphasizes the importance of building resilient crisis management institutions and message management systems. Through extensive case studies, in-depth interviews, and textual, content, narrative, and document analysis, the book provides comprehensive accounts of how normative risk communication strategies were invoked, applied, disrupted, questioned, and changed during the pandemic. It explores themes such as crisis preparedness, outbreak communication, lockdown messages, communication uncertainty, risk message strategies, and the challenges of information disorders. The book argues that trust in supranational and national institutions is crucial for the effective management of future global public health crises. This book will be of interest to researchers, practitioners, and students in the field of Risk, Crisis and Health Communication and Public Health and Disaster Management.

Weight: 530g
Dimension: 229 x 152 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781032513560