Communicating Health Risks to the Public - A Global Perspective

This book reviews current health risk communication strategies, and describes the techniques, including drama, storytelling and scenarios that are used to identify and prioritise key communication issues, and to identify policy responses. The book also provides a review of the methods and tools available for risk assessment, risk communication and

List of contents

List of Figures
List of Tables
List of Contributors
Acknowledgements

1. Introduction


2. View from the Global Village


3. Cultural Meaning of Risk


4. How Do We Perceive Risks?


5. The Art and Science of Health Risk Communication


6. Amplification of Risk: Styles and Approaches to Contemporary
Health Risk Communication


7. Fast Cars and Cool Cigarettes – Resilience of Risky Behaviour
in Young People


8. Risk Communication and the Media


9. Social Life of Risk Communication


10. Communication Shapes the World

Bibliography
Index

About the author

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.

Summary

This book reviews current health risk communication strategies, and describes the techniques, including drama, storytelling and scenarios that are used to identify and prioritise key communication issues, and to identify policy responses. The book also provides a review of the methods and tools available for risk assessment, risk communication and

Product details

• Assisted by: Dawn Hillier (Editor), Hillier Dawn (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor and Francis
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 24.06.2024
• EAN: 9781032837727
• ISBN: 978-1-03-283772-7
• No. of pages: 162
• Weight: 281 g
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Technology > General, dictionaries; Social sciences, law, business > Business > Individual industrial sectors, branches; MEDICAL / Public Health, MEDICAL / Preventive Medicine, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Industries / Manufacturing, TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Industrial Health & Safety, Personal & public health, Public health & preventive medicine, Manufacturing industries, Public health and preventive medicine, Personal and public health / health education, Ergonomics