Title

Communicating Risk of the Bioterrorism Threat: A Case Study in Houston, Texas of Heathcare Professionals and the General Public

Document Type

Dissertation

Comments

Presented to the Graduate Council of Texas State University-San Marcos in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree Doctor of Philosophy, December 2006.

Committee Members:
Denise Blanchard-Boehm, Chair
Yongmei Lu
Susan Macey
Jean Brender

Approved:
J. Michael Willoughby, Dean of the Graduate College.

Abstract

The primary goals of this research are to assess and model the process of risk communication among healthcare workers towards the threat of bioterrorist agents and to identify factors that contribute to responsive clinicians, thereby providing a strategy for designing more effective education programs among healthcare providers who are the population with the most likely opportunities to identify a bioterrorist event.