Journal of Health Sciences and Medicine

Yazarlar: Yiğit ŞENOL, Kadriye AVCI

Konular:Sağlık Bilimleri ve Hizmetleri

DOI:10.32322/jhsm.725257

Anahtar Kelimeler:Communication,Risk,Outbreaks,Social media

Özet: Nowadays, outbreaks have an important place in public health emergencies both with emerging novel infectious agents and spreading around the world. Outbreaks in the times when people’s need for information increased. This is where risk communication comes into play. With the information provided during the epidemic, people are made to make informed decisions for themselves and those around them. Informed decisions made by people play a key role in limiting the outbreak. Technological developments since the beginning of the 21st century have led to changes in risk communication. The widespread use of the Internet, mobile phones and social media has enabled the use of new communication technologies in risk communication. Since the beginning of the 21st century, this change can be observed in SARS, influenza (H1N1), zika and ebola outbreaks. This article examines how the risk communication during outbreaks is provided by national and international institutions through social media and the internet, using the literature.

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