The Crisis and Emergency-Risk Communication (CERC) model is effective in providing communication recommendations for public health agencies and shows potential for use by other agencies with similar crises characterizations. The current study explores the challenges of earthquake scientists in communicating earthquake risk during the pre-crisis stage in order to grasp experts’ experience and gain insight into the complex and multifaceted world of communicating earthquake risk. The researcher integrates the in-depth knowledge with the recommendations of the pre-crisis stage of the CERC model. This study employs qualitative interviewing with earthquake scientists (N = 21) from the Southern California Earthquake Center (SCEC). Categorized under general challenges, communication challenges, and communicating probability challenges, findings from this study indicate that earthquake scientists face eight unique challenges, such as communicating uncertainty, emphasizing their responsibility as solely hazard communicators, and keeping public attention during earthquake quiet periods. Implications for earthquake scientists during the pre-crisis stage of CERC are discussed and recommendations are provided.

The goal of this thesis was to find out the current state of the operation of the risk management in selected health service providers. For this purpose, there was a questionnaire survey conducted together with a form of interview. There was created a questionnaire for selected health service providers (Annex 1). It was necessary to set certain criteria for the selection of the health services providers. The first criterion was to cover health service providers in the whole Czech Republic. The second criterion set that it should be a inpatient facility. The third criterion definded that only hospitals should be covered. The forth criterion excluded University Hospitals from the selected sample. The fifth criterion required that there will be hospitals with more than 400 medical beds in their facilities. Reviews of annual reports of hospitals were drawn up to implement all the criterions for selecting the sample of health services providers and there were excluded facilities with less than 400 medical beds. The theoretical part deals with health care in the Czech Republic defining the providers of health services and health care system. Furthermore, it deals with crisis management in health care including crisis preparedness of health care, crisis documentation and exercises. There was specified a health risk management and risk analysis methods. There was a questionnaire containing 13 closed and 12 opened questions created for selected providers of health services used in the practical part. The questionnaire was divided into five categories related to the definition of Act No. 240/2000 Coll., crisis management, namely analysis and evaluation of security risks, planning, organization, implementation, control of activities (Annex 1). The questionnaire was distributed via the Click4Survey internet portal, it was an online questionnaire and the interviewed persons were also contacted by telephone. The interviewees were persons engaged in risk management at a particular selected health service providers. There were 18 hospitals out of a total of 33 hospitals surveyed participated in the survey. The results were processed into graphs, tables and interpreted in the discussion section of the thesis. The goal of the thesis was "To find out the current state of the operation of the risk management in selected health service providers." The results show that, risk management in the hospitals surveyed does not reach sufficient knowledge and experience in some cases.

Magister Commercii - MCom / The minithesis argues that microfinance institutions help their clients by offering saving services, through which the clients will be able to get 'chunks of money' on a regular basis . These 'chunks of money' enable them to protect against emergency risks for it acts as a crisis-coping mechanism by building up the asset base in its physical, financial, human, and social sense. The accumulation of an asset base is not only critical in fighting risks ahead of time, but also enables poor clients to protect against losses afterwards . Thus the saving services provided by these institutions are essential in improving their clients' capacity to build up and manage their assets.

This study investigates what roles the Chinese state-owned media play in the Covid-19 outbreak in terms of what kind of messages they delivered on Weibo and the quality of the messages. It also explores how the public is engaged with these messages on Weibo. Both the messages and the engagement are examined by mix-method content analysis.   The exploration of the Weibo messages relies on the Crisis and Emergency Risk Communication (CERC) framework. The CERC framework combines various existing theories and compiles them into a communication guideline for a health crisis. This study examines the messages by focusing on sensemaking and self-efficacy. Sensemaking is informing the public of the nature of the crisis; self-efficacy reflects people’s confidence in the capacity to change behaviours and deal with the problems. It was found that Weibo provides a platform for delivering sensemaking messages and self-efficacy messages in the coronavirus outbreak. However, considering the accuracy, relevance and intelligibility of strategic health communication, the quality of the messages is debatable in some cases.   The exploration of social media engagement relies on Liu, Lu and Wang’s virality theory on social media which discusses four aspects of engagement: authority, privacy, evidence and incentive appeal. This study shows how each of these aspects influences how people engage with messages on Weibo: the effect of different authorities on the message engagement; the usage of one-to-one communication and one-to-many communication in the engagement; and the engagement in positive appeals and negative appeals.

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