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Who is sceptical about emerging public health threats? Results from 39 national surveys in the United Kingdom
This research is a study about people who don’t worry about the public health warning about swine flu (2009/10 influenza A H1N1). This research uses to collect data by telephone and have 42,420 people who attended. The results are came from 39 times national surveys in the United Kingdom during the outbreak of swine flu. This study focuses on the issue of finding a way to convince people to believe in the warnings from the government in order to prevent outbreaks quickly. The survey found that more than half of the participants (55.1%) admitted that there are still uncertainties about the dangers of swine flu. Participants who don’t believe or don’t be afraid are White people, Healthy, Male, and having high subjective knowledge about the pandemic. The results of this research, we need to gave information to the people through multiple channels and highly reliable because the announcement of a state with the only facts can’t attract people to believe and follow and this remains a huge challenge in the future.