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Identify core issues that should be addressed when deciding whether to announce or withhold information during a public health emergency.

Descripción

The first module the course “Risk communication: building capacity under the IHR” addresses standards of transparency and the first announcement of a public health risk. "The parameters of trust are established in the outbreak's first official announcement. This message's timing, candor and comprehensiveness may make it the most important of all outbreak communications."

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