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Risk communication and public health.
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Risk communication and public health. P Benett, K Calman. (Pp 272; price not stated). New York: Oxford Universty Press, 1999. ISBN0-19-263037-7
In this global and fragmented society, where citizens do not have direct experience of many questions that influence their health, and where political decisions affect more and more diverse and dispersed individuals, public communication plays a central part in management and prevention of public risk.
With the intention of highlighting common experiences in this controversial field of …