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Communicating health risks to the public : a global perspective

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

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Description
  1. xiv, 145 pages : illustrations; 25 cm
Subject
  1. Health Education > methods
  2. Risk-Taking
  3. Risk communication
  4. Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice
  5. Public Health Administration
  6. Global Health
  7. Risk Reduction Behavior
  8. Public health > Citizen participation
  9. Communication
  10. Health risk communication
Contents
  1. 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.
Owning institution
  1. Columbia University Libraries
Bibliography (note)
  1. Includes bibliographical references (p. [121]-137) and index.