Risk communication

J. B. Weaver; S. Sargent Weaver; R. J. DiClemente

doi:10.1016/B978-012373960-5.00582-7

Risk communication

J. B. Weaver, S. Sargent Weaver, R. J. DiClemente

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Risk communication, an essential function of public health, 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 principles and practices build upon a foundation of behavioral, health, and social sciences theory and research. Increasingly, risk communication concepts are proving instrumental to pursuits in noncrisis contexts such as health care and health promotion. © 2008

Original language	English (US)
Title of host publication	International Encyclopedia of Public Health
Publisher	Elsevier Inc.
Pages	601-606
Number of pages	6
ISBN (Print)	9780123739605
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-012373960-5.00582-7
State	Published - 2008

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 Dentistry
General Medicine

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