Health Scares: Tracing Their Nature, Growth and Spread
Abstract: Background: Health scares are highly publicised threats to health that increase public concern and protective behaviours but are later shown to be unfounded. Although health scares have become more common in recent times, they have received very little research attention. This is despite the fact that health scares often have negative outcomes for individuals and community by affecting health behaviours and causing high levels of often unnecessary anxiety. Method: In this paper we undertook a review and analysis of the major types of health scares as well as the background factors associated with health scares and their spread. Results: We found most health scares fell into seven main categories; environmental contaminants, food, malicious incidents, medical treatments, public health interventions, radiation from technology and exotic diseases. For most health scares there are important background factors and incident characteristics that affect how they develop. Background factors.... https://cpe.psychopen.eu/index.php/cpe/article/view/12209
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Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Frankfurt am Main
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Online-Ressource
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Englisch
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Health Scares: Tracing Their Nature, Growth and Spread ; volume:5 ; number:4 ; day:22 ; month:12 ; year:2023
Clinical psychology in Europe ; 5, Heft 4 (22.12.2023)
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MacKrill, Kate
Witthöft, Michael
Wessely, Simon
Petrie, Keith J.
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10.32872/cpe.12209
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urn:nbn:de:101:1-2023122304183787042362
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Open Access; Der Zugriff auf das Objekt ist unbeschränkt möglich.
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15.08.2025, 07:36 MESZ
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Beteiligte
- MacKrill, Kate
- Witthöft, Michael
- Wessely, Simon
- Petrie, Keith J.