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postgraduate thesis: Lessons learned through the analysis of public responses towards the release of governmental information during the SARS epidemic in HongKong
Title | Lessons learned through the analysis of public responses towards the release of governmental information during the SARS epidemic in HongKong |
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Authors | |
Issue Date | 2012 |
Publisher | The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong) |
Citation | Lo, B. L. [盧偉明]. (2012). Lessons learned through the analysis of public responses towards the release of governmental information during the SARS epidemic in Hong Kong. (Thesis). University of Hong Kong, Pokfulam, Hong Kong SAR. Retrieved from http://dx.doi.org/10.5353/th_b4765753 |
Abstract | The risk perception as presented by the media is important because it is usually through the
media that the general population first receives information about an important event or crisis. The
unique position of the media comes with a responsibility to provide a ‘communication bridge’
between the government and the general population. However the editorial choices determining the
appropriateness of source, amount, and type of information conveyed to the public during a crisis is
influenced by the contextual environment. The issue attention framework proposed by Downs was
used to explore the possible links between the trajectory of a crisis and the media response may shed
some light on the populations perception of risk during a crisis (the Hong Kong SARS epidemic in
2003) in which WiseNews was used to search the grey literature. The articles identified were
classified into 4 categories: incidence, public health information, economy, and sensationalism by
date of publication. These categories were then plotted on the Hong Kong hospital admissions and
deaths epidemic curves. The study explored the potential link between key events during the Hong
Kong SARS epidemic and the specific content of the medial publications. |
Degree | Master of Public Health |
Subject | Health risk communication - China - Hong Kong. SARS (Disease) - China - Hong Kong. |
Dept/Program | Community Medicine |
Persistent Identifier | http://hdl.handle.net/10722/174449 |
HKU Library Item ID | b4765753 |
DC Field | Value | Language |
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dc.contributor.author | Lo, Brian L. | - |
dc.contributor.author | 盧偉明 | - |
dc.date.issued | 2012 | - |
dc.identifier.citation | Lo, B. L. [盧偉明]. (2012). Lessons learned through the analysis of public responses towards the release of governmental information during the SARS epidemic in Hong Kong. (Thesis). University of Hong Kong, Pokfulam, Hong Kong SAR. Retrieved from http://dx.doi.org/10.5353/th_b4765753 | - |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10722/174449 | - |
dc.description.abstract | The risk perception as presented by the media is important because it is usually through the media that the general population first receives information about an important event or crisis. The unique position of the media comes with a responsibility to provide a ‘communication bridge’ between the government and the general population. However the editorial choices determining the appropriateness of source, amount, and type of information conveyed to the public during a crisis is influenced by the contextual environment. The issue attention framework proposed by Downs was used to explore the possible links between the trajectory of a crisis and the media response may shed some light on the populations perception of risk during a crisis (the Hong Kong SARS epidemic in 2003) in which WiseNews was used to search the grey literature. The articles identified were classified into 4 categories: incidence, public health information, economy, and sensationalism by date of publication. These categories were then plotted on the Hong Kong hospital admissions and deaths epidemic curves. The study explored the potential link between key events during the Hong Kong SARS epidemic and the specific content of the medial publications. | - |
dc.language | eng | - |
dc.publisher | The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong) | - |
dc.relation.ispartof | HKU Theses Online (HKUTO) | - |
dc.rights | The author retains all proprietary rights, (such as patent rights) and the right to use in future works. | - |
dc.rights | This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License. | - |
dc.source.uri | http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B47657534 | - |
dc.subject.lcsh | Health risk communication - China - Hong Kong. | - |
dc.subject.lcsh | SARS (Disease) - China - Hong Kong. | - |
dc.title | Lessons learned through the analysis of public responses towards the release of governmental information during the SARS epidemic in HongKong | - |
dc.type | PG_Thesis | - |
dc.identifier.hkul | b4765753 | - |
dc.description.thesisname | Master of Public Health | - |
dc.description.thesislevel | Master | - |
dc.description.thesisdiscipline | Community Medicine | - |
dc.description.nature | published_or_final_version | - |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.5353/th_b4765753 | - |
dc.date.hkucongregation | 2012 | - |
dc.identifier.mmsid | 991033411009703414 | - |