The impact of health risk communication on self-perceived health and worry of targeted groups: Lessons from the Swedish COVID-19 response

Jonna Rickardsson; Charlotta Mellander

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0311596

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The impact of health risk communication on self-perceived health and worry of targeted groups: Lessons from the Swedish COVID-19 response

Jonna Rickardsson ,

Contributed equally to this work with: Jonna Rickardsson, Charlotta Mellander

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft

* E-mail: jonna.rickardsson@ju.se

Affiliation Department of Economics, Centre for Entrepreneurship and Spatial Economics (CEnSE), Jönköping International Business School, Jönköping, Sweden

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2473-7280

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Charlotta Mellander

Contributed equally to this work with: Jonna Rickardsson, Charlotta Mellander

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Department of Economics, Centre for Entrepreneurship and Spatial Economics (CEnSE), Jönköping International Business School, Jönköping, Sweden
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The impact of health risk communication on self-perceived health and worry of targeted groups: Lessons from the Swedish COVID-19 response

Jonna Rickardsson,
Charlotta Mellander

Published: January 17, 2025
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0311596

About the Authors

Jonna Rickardsson

Contributed equally to this work with: Jonna Rickardsson, Charlotta Mellander

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft

* E-mail: jonna.rickardsson@ju.se

Affiliation Department of Economics, Centre for Entrepreneurship and Spatial Economics (CEnSE), Jönköping International Business School, Jönköping, Sweden

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2473-7280

Charlotta Mellander

Contributed equally to this work with: Jonna Rickardsson, Charlotta Mellander

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Department of Economics, Centre for Entrepreneurship and Spatial Economics (CEnSE), Jönköping International Business School, Jönköping, Sweden

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

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