title: Community psycho-behavioural surveillance and related impact on outbreak control in Hong Kong and Singapore during the SARS epidemic.
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.
authors.affiliation: Department of Community Medicine, The University of Hong Kong, 21 Sassoon Road, Pokfulam, Hong Kong SAR, China. gmleung@hku.hk
authors.forename: G M
authors.initials: GM
authors.lastname: Leung
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Quah
authors.forename: L M
authors.initials: LM
authors.lastname: Ho
authors.forename: S Y
authors.initials: SY
authors.lastname: Ho
authors.forename: A J
authors.initials: AJ
authors.lastname: Hedley
authors.forename: H P
authors.initials: HP
authors.lastname: Lee
authors.forename: T H
authors.initials: TH
authors.lastname: Lam
mesh_terms: D001294:Attitude to Health; D003430:Cross-Sectional Studies; D004196:Disease Outbreaks / Q000517:prevention & control*; D005260:Female; D015438:Health Behavior; D007722:Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice; D006306:Health Surveys; D006723:Hong Kong / Q000453:epidemiology; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D011159:Population Surveillance; D045169:Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000517:prevention & control / Q000523:psychology*; D012846:Singapore / Q000453:epidemiology