The British 2001 Foot and Mouth crisis:: a comparative study of public risk perceptions, trust and beliefs about government policy in two communities
The British 2001 Foot and Mouth crisis:: a comparative study of public risk perceptions, trust and beliefs about government policy in two communities
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DOI：
10.1080/1366987042000151205
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发表时间：
2004-01-01
影响因子：
5.1
通讯作者：
Pidgeon, N
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作者：
Poortinga, W;Bickerstaff, K;Pidgeon, N
这项混合方法的研究探讨了2001年英国口蹄疫（FMD）流行期间公众对风险及其管理的态度。进行了定量调查和定性焦点小组，以审查两个社区（诺里奇和布德）如何应对危机。人们更关心的是这种疾病的广泛间接后果，而不是直接（健康）影响，特别是对生计和农村经济未来的影响。此外，人们发现了口蹄疫出现的复杂原因，这表明口蹄疫的爆发被认为是一个系统故障，而不是可以归咎于一个特定的原因或行为者。总的来说，人们似乎对政府处理口蹄疫疫情持批评态度。虽然有一些人支持政府屠宰受感染动物的政策，但政府执行政策的方式受到广泛批评。诺里奇和布德两个社区之间的差异很小，特别是政府对疾病的处理方面的差异，最明显的反映在人们的信任判断上。有人认为，这是当地经验的背景差异的结果，以及对危机的辩论，在两个社区。
This mixed methodology study examines public attitudes to risk and its management during the 2001 Foot and Mouth Disease (FMD) epidemic in Britain. A quantitative survey and qualitative focus groups were conducted to examine how two communities (Norwich and Bude) responded to the crisis. People were more concerned about a broad range of indirect consequences than about the direct (health) impacts of the disease, especially about the effects on the livelihood and future of rural economies. Moreover, people detected a complex of causes underlying the emergence of FMD, which suggests that the outbreak of FMD was considered a system failure, rather than something that could be blamed on one specific cause or actor. In general, people appeared to be critical about governmental handling of the FMD epidemic. Although there was some support for the government policy of slaughtering infected animals, the government was widely criticized for the way they carried out their policies. Only minor differences between the two communities Norwich and Bude were found. In particular, differences were found related to the government handling of the disease, reflected most notably in people's trust judgements. It is argued that these were the result of contextual differences in local experience, and debate on the crisis, in the two communities.