Risk Communication and Community Engagement (RCCE)
Outline
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Definitions of Concepts (Health risk, RC, CE, & RCCE)
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RCCE activities to be performed by different stakeholders
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Objectives
At the end of the training, participants will be able to;
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Describe RCCE
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Describe the benefits/challenges of RC
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Guiding principle of RCCE
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What is health Risk?
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Emergency/Health risk
is any public health event or incident presenting risk to life, health, and infrastructures including natural, weather-related, and manmade destruction, infectious disease outbreaks, and exposure to harmful biological, radiological, and chemical agents.
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Challenges:
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Community becomes emotional and fasten to decision,
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community have questions which needs to be answered
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It is the time for receiving unproven messages from different sources
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