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Best Practices Guidelines

Based on the collection of best practices on this platform, ASSET experts prepared a document outlining the guidelines of civil society involvement in public health projects.

Target: 
Decision Makers, Government and Public Health, Healthcare Professionals
Topic: 
Citizens' Mobilization, Human Rights, Prevention, Stakeholders
Tags: 
best practice, science-in-society, risk communication, behaviour, public health

Questions and answers: French Citizen Consultation on Vaccination

Professor Alain Fischer (info@concertation-vaccination.fr), doctor, professor of paediatric immunology, director of the Institute Imagine, holder of the chair of Experimental Medicine of the Collège de France and President of the Steering Committee for the Citizen Consultation initiative.

Country: 
France
Target: 
Citizens, Decision Makers, Government and Public Health, Healthcare Professionals
Topic: 
Citizens' Mobilization, Local Activities, Vaccination
Tags: 
Vaccine, risk communication, science-in-society

Paper series 5 - Risk communication in time of an epidemic or pandemic

Tuesday, October 3, 2017 - 14:35

David Xiang, Christos Kontos, Afroditi Veloudaki, Agoritsa Baka, Pania Karnaki, Athena Linos

Target: 
Government and Public Health, Healthcare Professionals
Topic: 
Media, Social Media
Tags: 
risk communication, Uncertainty, Social media
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Pathos, logos and ethos in health communication

Tuesday, September 12, 2017 - 09:10

The debate on how to address the spread of incorrect information about vaccines and science in general, as never before, is affecting the main stakeholders in health and scientific communication.
Current vaccination campaigns aimed to address vaccine hesitancy do not work or do not work enough.

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Target: 
Government and Public Health, Healthcare Professionals
Topic: 
Media, Prevention, Social Media, Stakeholders
Tags: 
public health communication, risk communication, communication strategies

Public engagement and trust building on social media

Wednesday, July 26, 2017 - 16:02

This editorial introduces the new release of ASSET paper series.

Social media, mobile technology and social networks constitute an extremely rich and dynamic information ecosystem. With a world population of more than seven billion people, almost half of them have an internet connection, while the active social media users are about 2.8 billion. Huge numbers, which clearly shows how deep these instruments are rooted into our society. It is not a surprise, then, that social media are also increasingly present in disaster and crisis response efforts. Their growing presence in these scenarios represent an issue, but also an opportunity.

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Target: 
Citizens, Government and Public Health, Healthcare Professionals
Topic: 
Social Media, Stakeholders
Tags: 
Social media, CDC, risk communication, engagement

Third ASSET Summer School: a fact, lots of news

Tuesday, June 13, 2017 - 12:08

As reported in the ASSET Strategic plan, the three Summer Schools on Science in Society related issues in Pandemics (2015, 2016, 2017) pose the main challenge of the collaborative project overall that is dealing with the intersectoral approach required by the management of Public Health Emergencies of International Concern (PHEIC), like epidemics and pandemics.

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Target: 
Government and Public Health, Healthcare Professionals
Topic: 
Epidemiology, Gender, Human Rights, Local Activities, Media, Microbiology, Mutual Learning, Policy, Prevention, Social Media, Stakeholders, Treatment, Vaccination
Tags: 
Summer School, Vaccine, science-in-society, science and society, Social media, Vaccine hesitancy, risk communication

The citizen consultation at the European Parliament

Wednesday, April 26, 2017 (All day)

Members of the ASSET projects will present the results of the citizen consultation that took place in eight countries on September 2016 at the European Parliament. Such an event is part of the science-in-society approach performed by the project within the framework of Research and Innovation related to pandemic preparedness. ASSET citizen consultation is an innovative method of engaging citizens on complex issues, providing them with information before asking questions.

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Type: 
General event
Target: 
Decision Makers, Government and Public Health
Topic: 
Citizens' Mobilization, Gender, Local Activities, Policy, Stakeholders, Treatment, Vaccination
Tags: 
science-in-society, risk communication, Preparedness, citizen consultation, Vaccines

Despite awareness of recommendations, why do health care workers not immunize pregnant women?

Tuesday, April 11, 2017 - 16:16

Gesser-Edelsburg A, Shir-Raz Y, Hayek S, Aassaraf S, Lowenstein L. Am J Infect Control. 2017 Apr 1;45(4):436-439.

Target: 
Government and Public Health, Healthcare Professionals
Topic: 
Stakeholders, Vaccination
Tags: 
Health care workers, Vaccination, pregnant women, risk communication
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The behind-the-scenes activity of parental decision-making discourse regarding childhood vaccination

Tuesday, April 11, 2017 - 16:05

Gesser-Edelsburg A, Walter N, Shir-Raz Y, Sassoni Bar-Lev O, Rosenblat S. Am J Infect Control. 2017 Mar 1;45(3):267-271. 

Target: 
Decision Makers, Government and Public Health, Healthcare Professionals
Topic: 
Stakeholders, Vaccination
Tags: 
Antivaccination parents, hesitant parents, provaccination, risk communication
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Pandemic Legacy: what a game can teach us about pandemics

Thursday, January 12, 2017 - 09:08

Month by month, the diseases spread across the world, cities fall into panic and some of them are even wiped out by virulent outbreaks, while tenacious experts cooperate to find a cure before it’s too late.

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Target: 
Citizens, Healthcare Professionals, Industry & Commerce, School and Education
Topic: 
Stakeholders
Tags: 
gamification, outbreak, pandemic, public health, risk communication

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This project has received funding from the European Union’s Seventh Framework Programme for research, technological development and demonstration under grant agreement no 612236.

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