Health authorities' health risk communication with the public during pandemics: a rapid scoping review.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Responses from the H1N1 swine flu pandemic and the recent COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic provide an opportunity for insight into the role of health authorities' ways of communicating health risk information to the public. We aimed to synthesise the existing evidence regarding different modes of communication used by health authorities in health risk communication with the public during a pandemic.

Methods

We conducted a rapid scoping review. MEDLINE and EMBASE were searched for publications in English from January 2009 through October 2020, covering both the full H1N1 pandemic and the response phase during the COVID-19 pandemic. The search resulted in 1440 records, of which 48 studies met our eligibility criteria.

Results

The present review identified studie

SUBMITTER: Berg SH 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8280576 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature