The risk perception as presented by the media is important because it is usually through the
media that the general population first receives information about an important event or crisis. The
unique position of the media comes with a responsibility to provide a ‘communication bridge’
between the government and the general population. However the editorial choices determining the
appropriateness of source, amount, and type of information conveyed to the public during a crisis is
influenced by the contextual environment. The issue attention framework proposed by Downs was
used to explore the possible links between the trajectory of a crisis and the media response may shed
some light on the populations perception of risk during a crisis (the Hong Kong SARS epidemic in
2003) in which WiseNews was used to search the grey literature. The articles identified were
classified into 4 categories: incidence, public health information, economy, and sensationalism by
date of publication. These categories were then plotted on the Hong Kong hospital admissions and
deaths epidemic curves. The study explored the potential link between key events during the Hong
Kong SARS epidemic and the specific content of the medial publications. / published_or_final_version / Community Medicine / Master / Master of Public Health
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:HKU/oai:hub.hku.hk:10722/174449 |
| Date | January 2012 |
| Creators | 盧偉明, Lo, Brian L. |
| Publisher | The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong) |
| Source Sets | Hong Kong University Theses |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | PG_Thesis |
| Source | http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B47657534 |
| Rights | The author retains all proprietary rights, (such as patent rights) and the right to use in future works., Creative Commons: Attribution 3.0 Hong Kong License |
| Relation | HKU Theses Online (HKUTO) |
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