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Communicating health risks to the public [electronic resource] : a global perspective / Dawn Hillier.

By: Hillier, Dawn, 1950-.
Contributor(s): ebrary, Inc.
Publisher: Aldershot, England ; Burlington, VT : Gower, c2006Description: xiv, 145 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.Subject(s): Health risk communication | Public health -- Citizen participation | Risk communicationGenre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 362.1 Online resources: An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view
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.
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362.1 (Browse shelf) Available

Includes bibliographical references (p. [121]-137) and index.

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.

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Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2009. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.