Risk Communication

Ralph J. DiClemente; Jerrold M. Jackson

doi:10.1016/B978-0-12-803678-5.00389-1

Risk Communication

Ralph J. DiClemente, Jerrold M. Jackson

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Abstract

A crucial function of public health is how to effectively disseminate information about a community's risk. Risk communication involves the effective and accurate exchange of information about health risks and hazards - often during an emergency - that advances risk awareness and understanding and promotes health-protective behaviors among individuals, communities, and institutions. Although forged through decades of applied experience in response to infectious disease outbreaks, industrial accidents, and natural disasters, contemporary public health risk communication is predicated on fundamental principles and practices of behavioral, health, and social science theory and research. Increasingly, risk communication concepts are proving instrumental to pursuits in noncrisis contexts such as health care and health promotion. Examples from the most recent Ebola and Zika epidemics are also included.

Original language	English (US)
Title of host publication	International Encyclopedia of Public Health
Publisher	Elsevier Inc.
Pages	378-382
Number of pages	5
ISBN (Electronic)	9780128037089
ISBN (Print)	9780128036785
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-803678-5.00389-1
State	Published - Oct 6 2016

Keywords

Cultural competence
Cultural issues in health communication
Disasters
Emergency planning
Health
Internet
Mass media
Media coverage of public health
Risk assessment
Risk perception
Risk surveillance
Safety risk

ASJC Scopus subject areas

General Medicine

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