Communicating Health Risks to the Public : a Global Perspective.

This book reviews current health risk communication strategies, and describes the techniques, including drama, storytelling and scenarios that are used to identify and prioritise key communication issues, and to identify policy responses. The book also.

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Bibliographic Details
Online Access: Full text (Emerson users only)
Main Author: Hillier, Dawn
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Farnham : Ashgate Pub., 2007.
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Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of Contents:
  • Cover; Contents; List of Figures; List of Tables; List of Contributors; Acknowledgements; 1 Introduction; 2 View from the Global Village; 3 Cultural Meaning of Risk; 4 How Do We Perceive Risks?; 5 The Art and Science of Health Risk Communication; 6 Amplification of Risk: Styles and Approaches to Contemporary Health Risk Communication; 7 Fast Cars and Cool Cigarettes
  • Resilience of Risky Behaviour in Young People; 8 Risk Communication and the Media; 9 Social Life of Risk Communication; 10 Communication Shapes the World; Bibliography; Index.