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HEALTH PROMOTION PRACTICE
Volume 9, Issue 4, Pages 26S-34SPublisher
SAGE PUBLICATIONS INC
DOI: 10.1177/1524839908322113
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crisis and emergency risk communication (CERC); risk communication; crisis communication; grounded theory; sensemaking; self-efficacy
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- U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) [000HCAU1-2007-43184]
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Health communicators at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) have developed an integrated model titled Crisis and Emergency Risk Communication (CERC) as a tool to educate and equip public health professionals for the expanding communication responsibilities of public health in emergency situations. This essay focuses on CERC as a general theoretical framework for explaining how health communication functions within the contexts of risk and crisis. Specifically, the authors provide an overview of CERC and examine the relationship of risk communication to crisis communication, the role of communication in emergency response, and the theoretical underpinnings of CERC. The article offers an initial set of propositions based on the CERC framework and concludes with a discussion of future directions.
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