WILDLIFE DISEASE AND RISK PERCEPTION
WILDLIFE DISEASE AND RISK PERCEPTION
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DOI：
10.7589/2013-02-031
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发表时间：
2013-10-01
影响因子：
1.3
通讯作者：
Gore, Meredith L.
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作者：
Hanisch-Kirkbride, Shauna L.;Riley, Shawn J.;Gore, Meredith L.
风险认知对野生动物管理具有重要影响，尤其与存在健康风险的问题相关，例如与野生动物疾病管理相关的问题。了解风险认知对于野生动物健康专业人员制定沟通信息很有用，这些信息可以增强公众对野生动物疾病风险的理解，并旨在增加公众对疾病管理的支持。为了促进公众对野生动物疾病管理背景下疾病风险的了解，我们使用了一份自填问卷，邮寄给美国大陆的分层随机样本（n=901），以实现三个目标：1）评估人畜共患疾病风险认知； 2）确定这些风险认知背后的社会人口和社会心理因素； 3) 检查风险感知与野生动物疾病管理实践的一致性之间的关系。我们在调查中评估的疾病包括狂犬病、鼠疫和西尼罗河病毒。通过由严重性、易感性和恐惧组成的指数来衡量，狂犬病和西尼罗河病毒病的风险感知最大（分别为 1 到 4 的（x）大条 = 2.62 和 2.59，鼠疫最小（（x）大条 = 2.39）。与疾病风险感知相关的四个最重要的变量是性别、教育程度、先前接触过该疾病以及对健康影响的关注。我们发现，更强的风险感知与我们发现，人们特别关注野生动物对人畜共患疾病的脆弱性和保护野生动物的健康，这表明利益相关者可能会接受强调疾病对野生动物潜在危害的信息和促进“同一个健康”的信息（即强调人类、家畜、野生动物和生态系统健康之间相互依存的信息）。
Risk perception has an important influence on wildlife management and is particularly relevant to issues that present health risks, such as those associated with wildlife disease management. Knowledge of risk perceptions is useful to wildlife health professionals in developing communication messages that enhance public understanding of wildlife disease risks and that aim to increase public support for disease management. To promote knowledge of public understanding of disease risks in the context of wildlife disease management, we used a self-administered questionnaire mailed to a stratified random sample (n=901) across the continental United States to accomplish three objectives: 1) assess zoonotic disease risk perceptions; 2) identify sociodemographic and social psychologic factors underlying these risk perceptions; and 3) examine the relationship between risk perception and agreement with wildlife disease management practices. Diseases we assessed in the surveys were rabies, plague, and West Nile virus. Risk perception, as measured by an index consisting of severity, susceptibility, and dread, was greatest for rabies and West Nile virus disease ((x) over bar =2.62 and 2.59, respectively, on a scale of 1 to 4 and least for plague (,(x) over bar =2.39). The four most important variables associated with disease risk perception were gender, education, prior exposure to the disease, and concern for health effects. We found that stronger risk perception was associated with greater agreement with wildlife disease management. We found particular concern for the vulnerability of wildlife to zoonotic disease and for protection of wildlife health, indicating that stakeholders may be receptive to messages emphasizing the potential harm to wildlife from disease and to messages promoting One Health (i.e., those that emphasize the interdependence of human, domestic animal, wildlife, and ecosystem health).