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Communicating health risks to the public : a global perspective

Title
Communicating health risks to the public : a global perspective / Dawn Hillier.
Author
Hillier, Dawn, 1950-
Publication
Aldershot, England ; Burlington, VT : Gower, [2006], ©2006.

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Description
xiv, 145 pages : illustrations; 25 cm
Subject
  • Health risk communication
  • Public health > Citizen participation
  • Risk communication
  • Health Education > methods
  • Communication
  • Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice
  • Public Health Administration
  • Risk Reduction Behavior
  • Risk-Taking
  • Global Health
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. [121]-137) and index.
Contents
View from the global village -- Cultural meaning of risk -- How do we perceive risks? -- The art and science of health risk communication -- The amplification of risk : styles and approaches to contemporary health risk communication -- Fast cars and cool cigarettes : resilience of risky behaviour in young people -- Risk communication and the media -- Social life of risk communication -- Communication shapes the world.
ISBN
  • 0566086727 (alk. paper)
  • 9780566086724 (alk. paper)
LCCN
2006018467
OCLC
  • ocm70119680
  • SCSB-5313667
Owning Institutions
Columbia University Libraries