The 2009 Buenos Aires flu H1N1 epidemy and communication of community prevention measures
Objective: To analyze longitudinally the construction of social participation in the prevention of influenza A in 2009, by evaluating social discourses synchronously with the evolution of the epidemic in urban middle class of Buenos Aires.Methods: Triangulation of qualitative and quantitative data:...
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| Formato: | Artículo revista |
| Lenguaje: | Español |
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Escuela de Salud Pública y Ambiente. Fac. Cs. Médicas UNC
2014
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| Acceso en línea: | https://revistas.unc.edu.ar/index.php/RSD/article/view/7053 |
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| Sumario: | Objective: To analyze longitudinally the construction of social participation in the prevention of influenza A in 2009, by evaluating social discourses synchronously with the evolution of the epidemic in urban middle class of Buenos Aires.Methods: Triangulation of qualitative and quantitative data: 1) Evolution of influenzalike illness in a community hospital serving middle-class Buenos Aires, 2) Evolution of cases at country level, 3) representation of prevention in national media.Results: During the outbreak in Buenos Aires middle-class, which preceded the country’s total, percentage on front page news on influenza A was 3.9%. The measures that collectively prevent the virus spread (hand hygiene, surfaces and containment of sneezing) was subsequently reported to the epidemic peak.Conclusions: Communication had contributed to the involvement of social participation belatedly. This highlights the need to promote the early involvement of society in collective prevention against epidemic risk |
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