Public health responses to West Nile virus : the role of risk perceptions and behavioral uncertainty in risk communication and policy
Emerging and re-emerging infectious diseases provide a challenge to public health in that the frequency, location, duration, and severity of the disease and outbreak are not always readily identifiable. In the absence of such information, the need to understand what drives risk perceptions, risk tr...
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Language: | English |
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University of British Columbia
2009
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Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/2429/7206 |