{"id":26605,"date":"2025-06-09T05:10:17","date_gmt":"2025-06-09T02:10:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rito.riigikogu.ee\/?p=26605"},"modified":"2025-05-29T23:33:24","modified_gmt":"2025-05-29T20:33:24","slug":"communication-failures-may-endanger-lives-in-an-emergency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rito.riigikogu.ee\/en\/previous-issues\/no-51\/communication-failures-may-endanger-lives-in-an-emergency\/","title":{"rendered":"Communication failures may endanger lives in an emergency"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"TextSwifttaandetaINGLISE lead\"><span lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"letter-spacing: -.2pt;\">In times of crisis, miscommunication can be fatal. Authors demonstrate that failures in risk and emergency communication\u2014whether due to language barriers, digital exclusion, or the spread of disinformation\u2014can amplify social vulnerability and obstruct life-saving responses. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"TextSwifttaandetaINGLISE\"><span lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"letter-spacing: -.2pt;\">Through a crisis simulation in Estonia, the authors identified how institutional blind spots, infrastructural breakdowns, and unaddressed community needs prevent critical information from reaching at-risk individuals. Vulnerability is dynamic, and even well-functioning systems falter without inclusive communication strategies. The authors argue for institutional self-assessment, scenario-based preparedness exercises, multilingual outreach, and sustained trust-building between authorities and communities. When communication falters, resilience collapses. Prevention begins with understanding not just the message, but who can hear\u2014and act on\u2014it.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"Summaryrubriik\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In times of crisis, miscommunication can be fatal. Authors demonstrate that failures in risk and emergency communication\u2014whether due to language barriers, digital exclusion, or the spread of disinformation\u2014can amplify social vulnerability and obstruct life-saving responses. Through a crisis simulation in Estonia, the authors identified how institutional blind spots, infrastructural breakdowns, and unaddressed community needs prevent [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[184],"class_list":["post-26605","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-no-51","topic-issues-of-national-importance"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rito.riigikogu.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26605","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rito.riigikogu.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rito.riigikogu.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rito.riigikogu.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rito.riigikogu.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26605"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/rito.riigikogu.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26605\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26606,"href":"https:\/\/rito.riigikogu.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26605\/revisions\/26606"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rito.riigikogu.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26605"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rito.riigikogu.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26605"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}