SARS Unmasked: Risk Communication of Pandemics and Influenza in Canada

Michael G. Tyshenko · Cathy Paterson

mar. 2010 · McGill-Queen's/Associated Medical Services Studies in the History of Medicine, Health, and Society Bog 35 · McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP

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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.

Om forfatteren

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