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Communicating health risks to the public : a global perspective / Dawn Hillier.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hillier, Dawn, 1950-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Health risk communication.
- Public health--Citizen participation.
- Public health.
- Risk communication.
- Health Education--methods.
- Communication.
- Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice.
- Public Health Administration.
- Risk Reduction Behavior.
- Risk-Taking.
- Global Health.
- Medical Subjects:
- Health Education--methods.
- Communication.
- Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice.
- Public Health Administration.
- Risk Reduction Behavior.
- Risk-Taking.
- Global Health.
- Physical Description:
- xiv, 145 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Aldershot, England ; Burlington, VT : Gower, [2006]
- 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [121]-137) and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Alumni and Friends Memorial Book Fund.
- ISBN:
- 0566086727
- 9780566086724
- OCLC:
- 70119680
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