Ebola eguneroko pentsamenduan barneratzengizarte-irudikapena, arrisku-hautematea eta emozioak

Resumen

To understand the new phenomena that threaten our society, such as the currentebola outbreak, we build shared meanings, that is, social representations. Social representationsmake the ebola be understandable and also channeled the risk perception and emotions. This work analyzed how 294 people from the Basque Country understood, perceived and feltfor ebola from August to November 2014. The results showed that ebola is represented as adangerous disease linked to Africa, but in our society creates mild risk perception and fear. Even more, the risk perception and fear emotions were higher when the health crisis startedthan when contagions happened in the West. This could be explained by the fatigue createdby the incessant reappearance of epidemics or because the tragic predictions of epidemicsalmost never become real. What is clear is that these factors directly influence the way to faceemerging infectious diseases.