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Home > Outbreak or epidemic? How Obama's language choice transformed the Ebola outbreak into an epidemic (poster)
Thursday, June 4, 2015 - 14:30
Authors 
Gesser-Edelsburg A, Shir-Raz Y, Bar-Lev OS, James JJ, Green MS
Target 
Government and Public Health
Healthcare Professionals
Topic 
Media
Tags 
Ebola

Gesser-Edelsburg A, Shir-Raz Y, Bar-Lev OS, James JJ, Green MS. Targeting Ebola International Congress 2015: Scientific Bases & Applications, Pasteur Institute, Paris, May 28‐29, 2015.

Effective communication is crucial during public health emergencies such as Ebola, because language affects the decision‐making process of social judgments and actions. The choice of the term ("outbreak") over another ("epidemic") can create different conceptualizations of the disease, thereby influencing the risk signature.

To access this article in the Disaster Medicine and Public Health Preparedness, please go to https://doi.org/10.1017/dmp.2016.48

outbreak_or_epidemic_-_targeting_ebola_2015.pdf

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