Bioterrorism risk communication policy
Bioterrorism risk communication policy
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DOI：
10.1080/10810730390225036
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发表时间：
2003-06-01
影响因子：
4.4
通讯作者：
Sandman, PM
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作者：
Sandman, PM
我真的很喜欢这些论文的草稿。我学到了很多关于疾病控制和预防中心（CDC）的炭疽传播工作的日常情况，这些信息肯定会对CDC和其他组织准备应对未来的生物恐怖袭击有所帮助。这些论文充满了成功的方法可以复制和不成功的方法需要重新考虑的精彩例证。这是一套非常实用、有用的论文。但令我震惊的是，这里没有出现的东西：疾病预防控制中心的炭疽风险宣传工作要么面临要么回避的艰难政策选择，以及未来的生物恐怖主义风险宣传工作必须面对的政策选择。而不是解决通信政策，论文主要集中在通信后勤，程序。两篇论文讨论了跟踪公众舆论，第三篇论文讨论了跟踪媒体内容，第四篇论文将CDC发布的炭疽新闻与媒体的实际报道进行了比较。有一篇论文关注信息复杂性、预测试的必要性和健康素养问题。在保持准确标准的情况下，如何将科学家的信息快速传递给记者，这是一项探索。（这篇论文确实提出了一个重要的政策问题——快速公布不确定信息的利弊——但只是间接地解决了这个问题。）有一项关于公司管理者乐观偏见的研究。我希望看到讨论的政策问题包括：
I really enjoyed the drafts of these papers. I learned an enormous amount about the dayto-day reality of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC’s) anthrax communication efforts—information that will certainly prove helpful as CDC and other organizations prepare to cope with future bioterrorist attacks. These papers are full of wonderful illustrations of successful approaches to be replicated and unsuccessful ones to be reconsidered. They are an extraordinarily practical, useful set of papers. But I am struck by what isn’t here: the tough policy choices that CDC’s anthrax risk communication effort either confronted or evaded and that future bioterrorism risk communication efforts must face.Instead of addressing communication policy, the papers focus primarily on communication logistics, on procedures. Two papers discuss tracking public opinion, a third addresses tracking media content, and a fourth compares CDC anthrax news releases to what the media actually reported. There is a paper focusing on message complexity, the need to pretest, and issues of health literacy. There’s an exploration of efforts to get information from scientists to journalists quickly while maintaining standards of accuracy.(This paper does raise an important policy issue—the pros and cons of getting out uncertain information quickly—but addresses that issue only indirectly.) There’sa study of optimistic bias among corporate managers. Among the policy issues I would have liked to see discussed are: