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ArticlePloS one2016

"Pandemic Public Health Paradox": Time Series Analysis of the 2009/10 Influenza A / H1N1 Epidemiology, Media Attention, Risk Perception and Public Reactions in 5 European Countries.

Ralf Reintjes, Enny Das, Celine Klemm, Jan Hendrik Richardus, Verena Keßler, Amena Ahmad

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Article in PloS one, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 45 papers.

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45 citing papers in PubMed, 113 citations in OpenAlex.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors at 5 institutions in 3 countries.

Ralf ReintjesHamburg University of Applied Sciences, Hamburg, Germany.
Enny DasRadboud University Nijmegen, Nijmegen, the Netherlands.
Celine KlemmVU University Amsterdam, Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
Jan Hendrik RichardusErasmus MC, University Medical Center Rotterdam, Rotterdam, the Netherlands.
Verena KeßlerHamburg University of Applied Sciences, Hamburg, Germany.
Amena AhmadHamburg University of Applied Sciences, Hamburg, Germany.
Erasmus MC · NLHAW Hamburg · DERadboud University Nijmegen · NLTampere University · FIUniversität Hamburg · DE

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

In 2009, influenza A H1N1 caused the first pandemic of the 21st century. Although a vaccine against this influenza subtype was offered before or at the onset of the second epidemic wave that caused most of the fatal cases in Europe, vaccination rates for that season were lower than expected. We propose that the contradiction between high risk of infection and low use of available prevention measures represents a pandemic public health paradox. This research aims for a better understanding of this paradox by exploring the time-dependent interplay among changing influenza epidemiology, media attention, pandemic control measures, risk perception and public health behavior among five European countries (Czech Republic, Denmark, Germany, Spain and the UK). Findings suggest that asynchronicity between media curves and epidemiological curves may potentially explain the pandemic public health paradox; media attention for influenza A H1N1 in Europe declined long before the epidemic reached its peak, and public risk perceptions and behaviors may have followed media logic, rather than epidemiological logic.

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Mass MediaPublic OpinionEuropeHumansInfluenza A Virus, H1N1 SubtypeInfluenza, HumanInfluenza VaccinesRiskInfluenza Vaccines

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PMID26982071
PMCPMC4794201
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