Building the Australian response to the ‘superbugs’ crisis

该项目旨在调查澳大利亚公众对抗菌素耐药性的沟通和媒体参与情况，检查公众对专家知识的信任程度，并研究公众如何在日常生活中制定有关抗菌素药物的专家建议。常见感染对抗生素和其他药物的耐药性（“超级细菌”危机）危及全世界的健康。“超级细菌”危机意味着个人和护理人员需要按照处方使用药物，并降低他们对药物治疗的期望。预计研究结果将支持澳大利亚的公共卫生政策和对“超级细菌”的沟通反应，改善国家和国际卫生结果。

This project aims to investigate the Australian public’s engagement with communications and media on antimicrobial resistance, examine the public’s trust in expert knowledge and study how the public enacts expert advice about antimicrobial drugs in everyday life. The resistance of common infections to antibiotics and other drugs (the ‘superbugs’ crisis) jeopardises health worldwide. The ‘superbugs’ crisis means that individuals and care givers need to use drugs as prescribed and reduce their expectations for drug treatments. Research findings are expected to underpin Australia’s public health policy and communications response to ‘superbugs’, improving national and international health outcomes.