1st Edition
Communicating Health Risks to the Public A Global Perspective
Edited By Dawn Hillier
Copyright 2007
162 Pages
by
Routledge
166 Pages
by
Routledge
166 Pages
by
Routledge
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This book reviews current health risk communication strategies, and examines and assesses the technical and psycho-sociological tools available to support risk communication plans. It brings together approaches to risk communication from a number of countries and describes the techniques, including drama, storytelling and scenarios that are used to identify and prioritise key communication issues,... Read more
List of Figures
List of Tables
List of Contributors
Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- View from the Global Village
- Cultural Meaning of Risk
- How Do We Perceive Risks?
- The Art and Science of Health Risk Communication
- Amplification of Risk: Styles and Approaches to Contemporary
- Fast Cars and Cool Cigarettes – Resilience of Risky Behaviour
- Risk Communication and the Media
- Social Life of Risk Communication
- Communication Shapes the World
Health Risk Communication
in Young People
Bibliography
Index
Biography
Dawn Hillier is Managing Director of Accomplishing Wellness Ltd and Principal Consultant of Strategic Change Partnership. She was previously Dean, School of Health Care Practice, Anglia Polytechnic University (APU). Dawn's previous publications reflect her international interest in childbirth and midwifery, public health risk, sexual health and corporate wellness.
