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SARS Unmasked

Risk Communication of Pandemics and Influenza in Canada

by (author) Michael G. Tyshenko & Cathy Paterson

Publisher
McGill-Queen's University Press
Initial publish date
Mar 2010
Category
Cultural
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9780773536180
    Publish Date
    Mar 2010
    List Price
    $40.95
  • Hardback

    ISBN
    9780773536173
    Publish Date
    Mar 2010
    List Price
    $110.00
  • eBook

    ISBN
    9780773585140
    Publish Date
    Mar 2010
    List Price
    $90.00

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Description

Will SARS or another pandemic influenza reoccur and, if it does, have we learned how to manage pandemics more effectively? In SARS Unmasked risk communication expert Michael Tyshenko offers answers to this and other questions. Cathy Paterson, who worked as a nurse clinician during the Toronto SARS crisis, adds an important view from the frontlines. Their analysis reveals an out-of-control situation with mixed risk communication messages, a lack of leadership, and an overwhelmed health care system that was unable to both cope with the crisis in Toronto and provide adequate support for their most valuable employees at the time - health care workers.

About the authors

Michael G. Tyshenko is a McLaughlin Chair in Science Health Policy at the Institute of Population Health, University of Ottawa.Cathy Paterson is a registered nurse clinician who in 2003 worked at North York General Hospital - the epicentre of the SARS

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Cathy Paterson is a registered nurse clinician who in 2003 worked at North York General Hospital - the epicentre of the SARS crisis in Toronto.

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