Community psycho-behavioural surveillance and related impact on outbreak control in Hong Kong and Singapore during the SARS epidemic

G M Leung; S Quah; L M Ho; S Y Ho; A J Hedley; H P Lee; T H Lam

Community psycho-behavioural surveillance and related impact on outbreak control in Hong Kong and Singapore during the SARS epidemic

Hong Kong Med J. 2009 Dec:15 Suppl 9:30-4.

Authors

G M Leung¹, S Quah, L M Ho, S Y Ho, A J Hedley, H P Lee, T H Lam

Affiliation

¹ Department of Community Medicine, The University of Hong Kong, 21 Sassoon Road, Pokfulam, Hong Kong SAR, China. [email protected]

PMID: 20393223

Abstract

1. The promotion of personal protective health practices must take into account background perceptions of risk and psychological responses in the community-at-large. 2. Population psycho-behavioural factors in Hong Kong and Singapore are shown to be an important potential vector for the transmission of an infectious agent. 3. Comparative psycho-behavioural surveillance and analysis can yield important insights into generic versus population-specific issues that could be used to inform, design and benchmark public health infection control measures.

Publication types

Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

Attitude to Health
Cross-Sectional Studies
Disease Outbreaks / prevention & control*
Female
Health Behavior*
Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice*
Health Surveys
Hong Kong / epidemiology
Humans
Male
Population Surveillance
Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome / epidemiology
Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome / prevention & control
Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome / psychology*
Singapore / epidemiology