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Communicating Public Health Risk: The Case of Radon Gas book cover

1st Edition

Communicating Public Health Risk The Case of Radon Gas

Edited By José Sixto-García, Sara Pérez-Seijo, Berta García-Orosa Copyright 2025
154 Pages 5 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

154 Pages 5 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

152 Pages 14 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge
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This important volume provides not only an in-depth analysis of those risk communication strategies currently used to inform and educate the public about key health issues, but also the risks and effects of radon, a natural but carcinogenic gas that so far has seen relatively little wider coverage. As the leading cause of lung cancer worldwide after smoking, radon is an important yet hidden... Read more

Table of contents

Foreword

Marta García-Talavera 

1. An introduction to radon gas and risk communication

José Sixto-García, Sara Pérez-Seijo and Berta García Orosa

 Part I. Radon: a public health issue

 2. Indoor radon as a public health problem. Available evidence on radon and its health effects

Lucía Martín de Bernardo Gisbert, Mónica Pérez Ríos, Leonor Varela Lema,

Juan Barros Dios and Alberto Ruano Ravina

 3. Radon and citizen science

Meritxell Martell, Tanja Perko, Sylvain Andresz, Caroline Schieber, Yevgeniya Tomkiv, Alison Dowdall, Leo McKittrick and Veronika Olahne Groma

 Part II. Communicating public health

 4. Public health communication from digital native media

Carmen Costa-Sánchez, Sofia Gomes and Xosé López-García

 5. Opportunities for information visualization in risk communication

Ángel Vizoso, Gabriela Coronel-Salas and Carlos Toural-Bran

 6. Health communication, awareness raising, and metaverse: an approach to the radon gas situation in Spain

Pavel Sidorenko Bautista, Jessica Zorogastua Camacho and Mariola Moreno Calvo

 Part III. Public perception of risk

 7. When risk is invisible and at home: news coverage on radon gas in local media

María-Cruz Negreira-Rey, Jorge Vázquez-Herrero and Rita Araújo

 8. Public Perception and Treatment of Risk Communication in Latin America

Lila Luchessi and Pablo Escandón-Montenegro

 9. Media coverage of risk and expert opinion

Noel Pascual-Presa and Tania Forja-Pena

10. Conclusions: deductions on health communication in the current media scene and challenges for the future

José Sixto-García, Sara Pérez-Seijo and Berta García Orosa

 

 

 

Biography

José Sixto-García is Professor of Journalism at the Department of Communication Sciences of the University of Santiago de Compostela (Spain). He has a PhD in Communication and Journalism. He was the Director of the Social Media Institute (2013-2019), and his research is focused on new media, new narratives and social networks.

Sara Pérez-Seijo has a Ph.D. in Communication, is Assistant Professor at the Universidade de Santiago de Compostela (Spain) and a member of Novos Medios research group. She was a visiting scholar at Universidade Nova de Lisboa. EUniWell's Communications Manager at the Universidade de Santiago de Compostela and Section Editor at Profesional de la Información.

Berta García-Orosa is Full Professor at the University of Santiago de Compostela (Spain). She holds a B.A. in Communication Sciences, a B.A. in Political and Administration Sciences and a PhD in Communication Sciences from the University of Santiago de Compostela. She has studied communication and politics for more than 20 years, collaborated in more than 50 research projects and published over 100 articles and chapters

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