Progress in public health risk communication in China: lessons learned from SARS to H7N9.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Following the SARS outbreak, the World Health Organization revised the International Health Regulations to include risk communication as one of the core capacity areas. In 2006, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Global Disease Detection [GDD] program began collaborating with China to enhance China's risk communication capacity to address gaps in the SARS communication response. This article describes tangible improvements in China's public health emergency risk communication capacity between the SARS and H7N9 outbreaks; documents U.S. CDC GDD cooperative technical assistance during 2006-2017; and shares lessons learnt to benefit other countries and contribute to enhance global health security.

Method

A questionnaire based on the WHO Joint Exter

SUBMITTER: Frost M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6696672 | biostudies-literature | 2019 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature