COVID-19 Risk Assessment Tool: Dual application of risk communication and risk governance
Risk awareness is the best way to prevent and slow-down the transmission of the COVID-19 pandemic. Risk awareness is achieved through communication of risk assessment. Effective risk communication is an important measure to control the infodemic. Most risk assessment tools focus on either tracking t...
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| author | Ranit Chatterjee Sukhreet Bajwa Disha Dwivedi Repaul Kanji Moniruddin Ahammed Rajib Shaw |
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| description | Risk awareness is the best way to prevent and slow-down the transmission of the COVID-19 pandemic. Risk awareness is achieved through communication of risk assessment. Effective risk communication is an important measure to control the infodemic. Most risk assessment tools focus on either tracking the affected patients or diagnosing a probable health condition through symptoms. RIKA India introduces an innovative Risk Assessment Tool which goes beyond the symptom detection and patient tracking. It includes four factors in assessment of risk: Health, Behaviour, Exposure and Social Policy. Each of these four factors have sub-factors which help to assess the overall risk in a more comprehensive way and also present it to the user in a simplified way. The paper discusses the importance of the Risk Assessment Tool for awareness generation and decision making. Further, the datasets generated through the tool have been analysed to understand the key intervention areas for COVID-19 response and management. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-5b8900fc261c406aad89bd565f4c84312022-12-21T23:52:40ZengElsevierProgress in Disaster Science2590-06172020-10-017100109COVID-19 Risk Assessment Tool: Dual application of risk communication and risk governanceRanit Chatterjee0Sukhreet Bajwa1Disha Dwivedi2Repaul Kanji3Moniruddin Ahammed4Rajib Shaw5Resilience Innovation Knowledge Academy (RIKA), India; Kyoto University, JapanResilience Innovation Knowledge Academy (RIKA), IndiaResilience Innovation Knowledge Academy (RIKA), IndiaGujarat Institute of Disaster Management, IndiaAmazon Web Service, IndiaResilience Innovation Knowledge Academy (RIKA), India; Keio University, Japan; Corrresponding author at: Resilience Innovation Knowledge Academy (RIKA), India.Risk awareness is the best way to prevent and slow-down the transmission of the COVID-19 pandemic. Risk awareness is achieved through communication of risk assessment. Effective risk communication is an important measure to control the infodemic. Most risk assessment tools focus on either tracking the affected patients or diagnosing a probable health condition through symptoms. RIKA India introduces an innovative Risk Assessment Tool which goes beyond the symptom detection and patient tracking. It includes four factors in assessment of risk: Health, Behaviour, Exposure and Social Policy. Each of these four factors have sub-factors which help to assess the overall risk in a more comprehensive way and also present it to the user in a simplified way. The paper discusses the importance of the Risk Assessment Tool for awareness generation and decision making. Further, the datasets generated through the tool have been analysed to understand the key intervention areas for COVID-19 response and management.http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2590061720300466COVID-19 pandemicRisk governanceRisk communicationAwareness generationSocial behaviour |
| spellingShingle | Ranit Chatterjee Sukhreet Bajwa Disha Dwivedi Repaul Kanji Moniruddin Ahammed Rajib Shaw COVID-19 Risk Assessment Tool: Dual application of risk communication and risk governance Progress in Disaster Science COVID-19 pandemic Risk governance Risk communication Awareness generation Social behaviour |
| title | COVID-19 Risk Assessment Tool: Dual application of risk communication and risk governance |
| title_full | COVID-19 Risk Assessment Tool: Dual application of risk communication and risk governance |
| title_fullStr | COVID-19 Risk Assessment Tool: Dual application of risk communication and risk governance |
| title_full_unstemmed | COVID-19 Risk Assessment Tool: Dual application of risk communication and risk governance |
| title_short | COVID-19 Risk Assessment Tool: Dual application of risk communication and risk governance |
| title_sort | covid 19 risk assessment tool dual application of risk communication and risk governance |
| topic | COVID-19 pandemic Risk governance Risk communication Awareness generation Social behaviour |
| url | http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2590061720300466 |
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