It’S Not Preventable, Yet You Are Responsible: Media’S Risk And Attribution Assessment Of The 2012 West Nile Outbreak

Abstract

Health events such as large-scale disease outbreaks naturally attract journalistic attention because of people’s general interest in medical events (Pew Research Center, 2009). News media have closely followed these pandemics year after year and shifted their approaches of doing so throughout the decades (Blakely, 2003; Koteyko, Brown, & Crawford, 2008). The news coverage of public health events is important in that, through these reports, people can develop a concept of a disease and prepare for a potential health risk accordingly (Blakely, 2003; Roche & Muskavitch, 2003).

Publication Date

1-1-2018

Publication Title

Risk and Health Communication in an Evolving Media Environment

Number of Pages

300-315

Document Type

Article; Book Chapter

Personal Identifier

scopus

DOI Link

https://doi.org/10.1201/9781315168821

Socpus ID

85045104370 (Scopus)

Source API URL

https://api.elsevier.com/content/abstract/scopus_id/85045104370

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