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Antibiotic resistance on the agenda: understanding public discourse

ZHAW examined how German- and French-language web texts discussed antibiotic resistance for the Swiss Federal Office of Public Health.

Summary

The ZHAW final report of April 2019 analyses public discourse on antibiotics and antibiotic resistance in the context of Switzerland’s StAR strategy. The research team examined publicly accessible German- and French-language web texts from politics, media, healthcare and science.

The analysis describes a specialised discourse with comparatively limited prominence. Reporting often followed events and official information. To reach wider audiences, the report recommends accessible vocabulary and connections to broader topics such as health and the environment. Its subject is public communication during the period studied.

Source and original publication

Peter Stücheli-Herlach, Birgitta Borghoff, Natalie Schwarz & Loïse Bilat (2019). Antibiotikaresistenzen auf die Agenda! L’antibiorésistance à l’agenda. Schlussbericht zur situativen Analyse öffentlicher Diskurse über Antibiotikaresistenzen mittels digitaler Daten 2017–2018. ZHAW, 04.04.2019. DOI: 10.21256/zhaw-5555.

Open original source

The archived file is the expanded bilingual version dated 4 April 2019. The additional ZHAW record below documents the German-language preliminary version of 17 July 2018.

2018 preliminary version at ZHAW

Editorial summary by Lua. The linked original publication is the authoritative source.

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