Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Part one: SARS in Canada. SARS timeline : what happened when in Canada
  • Emergency room culture and dealing with SARS
  • Properties of coronaviruses and factors contributing to SARS transmission
  • The SARS experience
  • The social amplification of risk and SARS as a risk issue
  • The stigma of SARS and its effect on people and places
  • The need for sex- and gender-sensitive supports for healthcare workers during infectious disease outbreaks
  • SARS hospitals and infectious disease response
  • Public SARS reports : recommendations from expert panels
  • Part two: Risk Communication and pandemic disease. Risk communication of SARS in Canada
  • SARS and risk communication in other affected countries
  • Avian influenza
  • Emergancy preparedness for future pandemics : lessons from SARS.