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标题：Effects of misleading media coverage on public health crisis: a case of the 2019 novel coronavirus outbreak in China
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作者：Jun Wen ; Joshua Aston ; Xinyi Liu 等
期刊名称：Anatolia
印刷版ISSN：1303-2917
电子版ISSN：2156-6909
出版年度：2020
卷号：31
期号：2
页码：331-336
DOI：10.1080/13032917.2020.1730621
语种：English
出版社：Taylor & Francis Group
摘要：The coronavirus outbreak in Wuhan, China has sparked a global epidemic, which the World Health Organization declared a public health emergency of international concern on 31st January 2020 (Beijing time). This crisis has attracted intense media attention. Recently, some media outlets inappropriately labelled the coronavirus by race, using such headlines as “Chinese virus pandemonium” and even suggesting “China kids stay home.” The biased and misleading coverage presented via Western media channels has incited anger throughout the Chinese community and has placed undue stress upon Chinese individuals living outside China. This post-published review takes a tourism-focused perspective to examine findings from a quantitative study (Rodriguez-Seijas, Stohl, Hasin,andEaton, 2015) published in 2015 in JAMA Psychiatry. The current paper highlights the potential impacts of misleading and biased media coverage on Chinese individuals’ mental health. Specifically, this work considers perceived racial discrimination stemming from coronavirus as a public health crisis and the effects of such discrimination on individuals of Chinese heritage. Similarly imperative are pertinent effects on country image and destination image with respect to tourism marketing and tourist behaviour during times of crisis. By considering racism in the context of the coronavirus outbreak, this paper identifies potential avenues for relevant research in tourism and hospitality.
关键词：Misleading media coverage;public health crisis;racial discrimination;mental disorders;country image;destination image