When bad things happen to good people: The portrayal of accidents in mass print magazines

Clarke, Juanne N.; Amerom, Gudrun G. P. Van

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“…Sistrom et al 2006;Hawryluck et al 2005;Tai 2007) and, iv) ethical problems and emotional issues (cf. Arras 2005, Gardner 2006Sweet 2006;Chan et al 2005;Maunder et al 2006;Clarke et al 2007). Maintenance of general social order is essential for the pandemic response, even though methods for achieving this goal have largely been ignored in national preparedness plans (Uscher-Pines et al 2006).…”

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“…In a pandemic setting, it is not clear what should be expected of peers and what healthcare managers can demand of personnel. Although guidelines for difficult ethical decisions have seldom been in place, insufficiencies in post-disaster damage control are often blamed on individual public service professionals, including HCWs (Clarke et al 2007). HCWs will, thus, face thankless tasks during a pandemic, not only because they have to risk their own lives, but also because of a lack of understanding and support from the general public.…”

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“…Additionally, the task of maintaining transparency in policy-making in order to demonstrate fairness in the allocation of medical intervention falls heavily on the HCWs. Therefore, effective and flexible communication routines are vital to uphold both within healthcare service organizations and between health service organizations and the lay public (Arras 2005;Clarke 2007). …”

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Elicitation of Pandemic Coping Strategies among Health Care Workers: Contextual Adaptation of a Mental Models Method

Ekberg¹,

Timpka²,

Gursky³

2009

Journal of Homeland Security and Emergency Management

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The aim of this study is to develop and formatively evaluate a method of eliciting health care workers' understanding of pandemics and their forecasted behaviors during an outbreak. Qualitative methods were used for the evaluation. The results demonstrate that it was possible to identify specific points during the subject interviews when the health care worker seemed to turn from provision of frank data on self-efficacy to that of speculation. Considering this observation, the re-designed method allowed collection and analysis of data critical for pandemic planning. The results imply that more reliable predictions of health care workers' behavior during a pandemic are possible, albeit sensitive to elicit. Use of realistic mental exercises can provide important insights into the level of pandemic preparedness, but these methods will require additional research to reliably differentiate between prediction and speculation.

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Elicitation of Pandemic Coping Strategies among Health Care Workers: Contextual Adaptation of a Mental Models Method

Ekberg¹,

Timpka²,

Gursky³

2009

Journal of Homeland Security and Emergency Management

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“…News media are a significant source of health information and have been associated with important behavioural and policy changes 7–11. In relation to injury, news media contribute to defining what events and issues should be considered ‘risky’12 and where and with whom risk lies. Scholarly work documenting news media coverage of injuries is, however, still in its infancy, and the relationship between media framing and public attitudes towards injury topics has not been sufficiently explored 13–15…”

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‘It was a freak accident’: an analysis of the labelling of injury events in the US press

Smith

Girasek

Baker³

et al. 2011

Inj Prev

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Objectives Given that the news media shape our understanding of health issues, a study was undertaken to examine the use by the US media of the expression 'freak accident' in relation to injury events. This analysis is intended to contribute to the ongoing consideration of lay conceptualisation of injuries as 'accidents'. Methods LexisNexis Academic was used to search three purposively selected US news sources (Associated Press, New York Times and Philadelphia Inquirer) for the expression 'freak accident' over 5 years (2005e9). Textual analysis included both structured and open coding. Coding included measures for who used the expression within the story, the nature of the injury event and the injured person(s) being reported upon, incorporation of prevention information within the story and finally a phenomenological consideration of the uses and meanings of the expression within the story context. Results The search yielded a dataset of 250 human injury stories incorporating the term 'freak accident'. Injuries sustained by professional athletes dominated coverage (61%). Fewer than 10% of stories provided a clear and explicit injury prevention message. Stories in which journalists employed the expression 'freak accident' were less likely to include prevention information than stories in which the expression was used by people quoted in the story. Conclusions Journalists who frame injury events as freak accidents may be an appropriate focus for advocacy efforts. Effective prevention messages should be developed and disseminated to accompany injury reporting in order to educate and protect the public.

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“…Meaning is attached to finding out why the accident happened (i.e. who failed to take adequate precautions based on known risk factors), attributing responsibility, and seemingly trying to ensure it 'doesn't happen to anyone else' (see Clarke & Van Amerom, 2007). This trajectory of implication and accountability traces the cultural curve into risk society, and demonstrates the existential need for certainty in a progressively more uncertain world, but how attempts to achieve that certainty -probabilistic calculations of random events-succeed in creating more uncertainty and anxiety.…”

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Child Accident/Injury Prevention in Risk Society: A Critical Analysis

Campbell

Cowley

2015

RIMCIS

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Unintentional injury is now the principle cause of child death in developed nations, and the prevention of it has become a key focus of health professionals. This paper presents a sociological/philosophical enquiry into child accident prevention discourse and its implications for practice. With a critical distillation of major child accident prevention literature spanning the last two decades, significant findings, recommendations and themes are identified. It is observed which preventative measures have been deemed successful, with the placement of strategies into the appropriate 'E' category -education, engineering, enforcement, and environment. This process demonstrates the difficulties with and paradoxes inherent in the notion of accident prevention and buttresses a central hypothesis: that the child accident or injury in risk society is simultaneously predictable and random; knowable at a statistical level but enigmatic at an individual one. The accident, previously configured as unpredictable and inexplicable, has become wholly subject to risk society's raison d'etre, the laws of probability, and is thus rendered predictable and preventable on a magnified scale.Keywords: accidentology, injury, prevention, rationality, risk, uncertainty RIMCIS -International and Multidisciplinary Journal of Social Sciences Vol. 4 No.3 November 2015 pp. 245-270 ResumenLos daños imprevistos son hoy en día la principal causa de muerte de niños y niñas en los países desarrollados, y su prevención se ha convertido en un aspecto central para los profesionales de la salud. Este artículo presenta una investigación filosófica y sociológica sobre el discurso de prevención de accidentes infantiles y sus implicaciones prácticas. A través de una síntesis crítica de la principal literatura en prevención de accidentes infantiles, el artículo identifica resultados, recomendaciones y temas significativos. Se observan qué medidas preventivas han resultado exitosas, situando las estrategias en la apropiada categoría 'E' -educación, ingeniería, ejecución y entorno. Este proceso demuestra las dificultades con, y las inherentes paradojas de, la noción de prevención de accidentes, y refuerza la hipótesis central: que los accidentes o daños infantiles en la sociedad del riesgo son simultáneamente predecibles y aleatorias; cognoscibles a nivel estadístico, aunque enigmáticas a nivel individual. El accidente, a priori establecido como impredecible e inexplicable, se ha convertido completamente en la razón de ser de la investigación de la sociedad del riesgo, en una cuestión de probabilidad, transformándose, de esta manera, en algo predecible y prevenible a nivel macro/ a gran escala.Palabras clave: accidentología, prevención de daños, racionalidad, riesgo, incertidumbre International and Multidisciplinary Journal of Social Sciences, 4(3) 247 ccidents retain a power to disturb simply as a reminder of the limits of rational cosmologies and of our tenuous control over the worlds that they describe -Judith Green, 1997a, p.34.

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When bad things happen to good people: The portrayal of accidents in mass print magazines

Cited by 6 publications

References 46 publications

Elicitation of Pandemic Coping Strategies among Health Care Workers: Contextual Adaptation of a Mental Models Method

Elicitation of Pandemic Coping Strategies among Health Care Workers: Contextual Adaptation of a Mental Models Method

‘It was a freak accident’: an analysis of the labelling of injury events in the US press

Child Accident/Injury Prevention in Risk Society: A Critical Analysis

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