Government Communication Strategies during Coronavirus Pandemic: United Arab Emirates Lessons
Radwan, Ahmed Farouk, Mousa, Sheren Ali
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In this paper, the authors apply known efficacious principles of risk and health communicat- tation in government communication during the COVID-19 pandemic, and apply these principles to the current crisis.Citations
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Can risk communication in mass media improve compliance behavior in the COVID-19 pandemic? Evidence from Vietnam
Pham Tien Thanh,Le Thanh Tung +1 more
TL;DR: Wang et al. as discussed by the authors examined the effects of risk communication exposure on public understanding and risk perception of COVID-19 and public compliance with health preventive measures, and found that exposure to risk communication in both online media and traditional media facilitates public compliance.
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Does Citizen Engagement With Government Social Media Accounts Differ During the Different Stages of Public Health Crises? An Empirical Examination of the COVID-19 Pandemic
TL;DR: Wang et al. as discussed by the authors employed the heuristic-systematic model to examine the formation mechanism of citizen engagement with government social media accounts at different stages of the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Dialogic communication on local government social media during the first wave of COVID-19: Evidence from the health commissions of prefecture-level cities in China
TL;DR: Wang et al. as discussed by the authors investigated the impact of public pressure and peer pressure on the level and determinants of Dialogic Communication on Government Social Media (DCGSM) in the context of public crisis.
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Irish audiences and news information from official sources during Covid-19
TL;DR: In this paper , the authors focused on Irish audiences' information sources during the Covid-19 pandemic and found that official sources were relatively effective in being heard, and that health agencies like the Health Service Executive and the National Public Health Emergency Team were more salient than politicians, suggesting the pandemic was perhaps apolitical in the eyes of the public.
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Enhancing global health communication during a crisis: lessons from the COVID-19 pandemic.
TL;DR: The COVID-19 pandemic has introduced unique challenges for public health practitioners and health communicators that warrant an expansion of existing health communication principles to take into consideration: the new infodemic (or mis/disinfodemic) challenge - particularly as treatments and vaccines are being developed; communication of risk and uncertainty; health-information behaviours and the instantaneous nature of social media, and the relationship between media literacy and health literacy; the effects of the pandemic on other health issues; and the need for a flexible communication strategy that adapts to the different stages of the crisis