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Cover Managing Risk during the COVID-19 Pandemic

Managing Risk during the COVID-19 Pandemic

Global Policies, Narratives and Practices

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Author:
Andy Alaszewski

This book provides an accessible guide to the key elements of risk in policy making and shows how its use and misuse has shaped policy makers’ responses to the COVID-19 pandemic in a range of countries.

Publisher:
Policy Press
Publication Date:
09 May 2023
Online ISBN:
9781447365273
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.51952/9781447365273
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Front Matter
Front Matter
Foreword
Preface
1: Introduction: risk as a key feature of late modern societies
Part I: Responding to the challenges of the pandemic
2: Managing uncertainty: framing COVID-19
3: The risks of COVID-19: probability, categorisation and outcomes
4: Communicating risk: public health messaging
Part II: Mitigating risk through science and technology
5: ‘Following the science’: expertise and risk
6: Risk work to maintain services during the pandemic
Part III: Risk narratives
7: Pandemic narratives: telling stories about COVID-19 and its risks
8: Contesting risk: conspiracy theories
9: Hindsight: inquiries and the blame game
10: Conclusion: risk and the pandemic
Back Matter
References
Index

The past 30 years have seen risk become a major field of study, most recently with the COVID-19 pandemic positioning it at the centre of public awareness, yet there is limited understanding of how risk can and should be used in policy making.

This book provides an accessible guide to the key elements of risk in policy making, including its role in rhetoric to legitimise decisions and choices.

Using risk as a framework, it examines how policy makers in a range of countries responded to the COVID-19 pandemic and explains why some were more successful than others.

Andy Alaszewski is Emeritus Professor at the Centre for Health Services Studies, University of Kent.

Author/Editor details at time of book publication.

Copyright:
© Bristol University Press 2023
Hardback ISBN:
9781447365242
ePub ISBN:
9781447365266
Online ISBN:
9781447365273
Page Extent:
226
Keywords:
COVID-19; SARS-CoV-2; risk; at risk; value judgements; policy making; science; conspiracy theories; pandemic narratives; blame
Global Social Challenges:
Democracy, Power and Governance
Sustainable Development Goals:
Goal 3: Good Health and Well-being, Goal 10: Reduced Inequalities
Subject:
Health and Social Care, Global Health, Health Care, Health Inequalities, Social and Public Policy, Health Policy, Poverty and Inequality, Social Justice and Human Rights, Tackling Health Inequalities
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