The Analysis Communication And Perception Of Risk

Author : B.John Garrick,Willard C. Gekler
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 696 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2013-11-11
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781489923707

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The Analysis, Communication, and Perception of Risk by B.John Garrick,Willard C. Gekler Pdf

The 1989 Annual Meeting of the Society for Risk Analysis dramatically demonstrated one of the most important reasons for having the Society - to bring together people with highly diverse backgrounds and disciplines to assess the common problems of societal and individual risks. The physical scientists emphasized the analytical tools for assessing environmental effects and for modeling risks from engineered systems and other human activities. The health scientists presented numerous methods of analyzing health effects, including the subject of dose-response relationships, especially at low exposure levels - never an easy analysis. The social and political scientists concentrated on issues of risk perception, communication, acceptability, and human touch. Others discussed such issues as cost-benefit analysis and the risk-based approach to decision analysis. Use of risk assessment methods for risk management continued to be a matter of strong opinion and debate. The impacts of state and federal regulations, existing and planned, were assessed in sessions and in luncheon speeches. These impacts show that risk analysis practitioners will have an increasingly important role in the future. They will be challenged to provide clear, easily understood evaluations of risk that are responsive to society's concern for risk, as evidenced in laws and regulations. Of course, the various risk analysis specialties overlapped in domains of interest.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 832 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:874323342

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Oxford Textbook of Public Health by Anonim Pdf

Author : Paul Slovic
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 458 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2013-03-07
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781136530463

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The Feeling of Risk by Paul Slovic Pdf

The Feeling of Risk brings together the work of Paul Slovic, one of the world's leading analysts of risk, to describe the extension of risk perception research into the first decade of this new century. In this collection of important works, Paul Slovic explores the conception of 'risk as feelings' and examines the interaction of feeling and cognition in the perception of risk. He also examines the elements of knowledge, cognitive skill, and communication necessary for good decisions in the face of risk. The first section of the book looks at the difficulty of understanding risk without an emotional component, for example that disaster statistics lack emotion and thus fail to convey the true meaning of disasters and fail to motivate proper action to prevent them. The book also highlights other important perspectives on risk arising from cultural worldviews and concerns about specific hazards pertaining to blood transfusion, biotechnology, prescription drugs, smoking, terrorism, and nanotechnology. Following on from The Perception of Risk (2000), this book presents some of the most significant research on risk perception in recent years, providing essential lessons for all those involved in risk perception and communication.

Author : Paul Slovic
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 512 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2016-10-06
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781317341123

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The Perception of Risk by Paul Slovic Pdf

The concept of risk is an outgrowth of our society's great concern about coping with the dangers of modern life. The Perception of Risk brings together the work of Paul Slovic, one of the world's leading analysts of risk, risk perception and risk management, to examine the gap between expert views of risk and public perceptions. Ordered chronologically, it allows the reader to see the evolution of our understanding of such perceptions, from early studies identifying public misconceptions of risk to recent work that recognizes the importance and legitimacy of equity, trust, power and other value-laden issues underlying public concern.

Author : Roger Detels,Martin Gulliford,Quarraisha Abdool Karim,Chorh Chuan Tan
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 1717 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780198810131

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Oxford Textbook of Global Public Health by Roger Detels,Martin Gulliford,Quarraisha Abdool Karim,Chorh Chuan Tan Pdf

Sixth edition of the hugely successful, internationally recognised textbook on global public health and epidemiology, with 3 volumes comprehensively covering the scope, methods, and practice of the discipline

Author : Paul Slovic
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 563 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2016-10-06
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781317341116

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The Perception of Risk by Paul Slovic Pdf

The concept of risk is an outgrowth of our society's great concern about coping with the dangers of modern life. The Perception of Risk brings together the work of Paul Slovic, one of the world's leading analysts of risk, risk perception and risk management, to examine the gap between expert views of risk and public perceptions. Ordered chronologically, it allows the reader to see the evolution of our understanding of such perceptions, from early studies identifying public misconceptions of risk to recent work that recognizes the importance and legitimacy of equity, trust, power and other value-laden issues underlying public concern.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : MINN:31951P00378213V

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Risk by Anonim Pdf

This report from a group of scientists, engineers and social scientists is published by the Royal Society to open up discussion on risk. It re-states the principles by which the risks to human health and life are measured and shows the changes over the last ten years. The object is to provide guides to decisions on priorities for action. Risks from transport, employment, sport, radiation, smoking, food and HIV are compared. Life expectancy in the UK has increased by seven years since 1952, and babies' deaths reduced from 28 per thousand to eight. For industry, techniques to predict are widely used along with those to improve quality. A new area of problems lies in software faults.

Author : Institute of Medicine,Board on Health Promotion and Disease Prevention
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 43 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1997-08-10
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780309057905

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Risk Communication and Vaccination by Institute of Medicine,Board on Health Promotion and Disease Prevention Pdf

Author : V.T. Covello,David B. McCallum,Maria T. Pavlova
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 359 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781461315698

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Effective Risk Communication by V.T. Covello,David B. McCallum,Maria T. Pavlova Pdf

One of the greatest challenges facing those concerned with health and environmental risks is how to carry on a useful public dialogue on these subjects. In a democracy, it is the public that ultimately makes the key decisions on how these risks will be controlled. The stakes are too high for us not to do our very best. The importance of this subject is what led the Task Force on Environmental Cancer and Heart and Lung Disease to establish an Interagency Group on Public Education and Communication. This volume captures the essence of the "Workshop on the Role of Government in Health Risk Communication and Public Education" held in January 1987. It also includes some valuable appendixes with practical guides to risk communication. As such, it is an important building block in the effort to improve our collective ability to carry on this critical public dialogue. Lee M. Thomas Administrator, U. S. Environmental Protection Agency, and Chairman, The Task Force on Environmental Cancer and Heart and Lung Disease Preface The Task Force on Environmental Cancer and Heart and Lung Disease is an interagency group established by the Clean Air Act Amendments of 1977 (P.L. 95-95). Congress mandated the Task Force to recommend research to determine the relationship between environmental pollutants and human disease and to recommend research aimed at reduc ing the incidence of environment-related disease. The Task Force's Project Group on Public Education and Communication focuses on education as a means of reducing or preventing disease.

Author : Institute of Medicine,Board on Population Health and Public Health Practice,Committee on Scientific Standards for Studies on Modified Risk Tobacco Products
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2012-04-19
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780309223980

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Scientific Standards for Studies on Modified Risk Tobacco Products by Institute of Medicine,Board on Population Health and Public Health Practice,Committee on Scientific Standards for Studies on Modified Risk Tobacco Products Pdf

Smoking-related diseases kill more Americans than alcohol, illegal drugs, murder and suicide combined. The passage of the Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act of 2009 gave the FDA authority to regulate "modified risk tobacco products" (MRTPs), tobacco products that are either designed or advertised to reduce harm or the risk of tobacco-related disease. MRTPs must submit to the FDA scientific evidence to demonstrate the product has the potential to reduce tobacco related harms as compared to conventional tobacco products. The IOM identifies minimum standards for scientific studies that an applicant would need to complete to obtain an order to market the product from the FDA.

Author : R.E Kasperson,P.J. Stallen
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 477 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9789400919525

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Communicating Risks to the Public by R.E Kasperson,P.J. Stallen Pdf

Risk communication: the evolution of attempts Risk communication is at once a very new and a very old field of interest. Risk analysis, as Krimsky and Plough (1988:2) point out, dates back at least to the Babylonians in 3200 BC. Cultures have traditionally utilized a host of mecha nisms for anticipating, responding to, and communicating about hazards - as in food avoidance, taboos, stigma of persons and places, myths, migration, etc. Throughout history, trade between places has necessitated labelling of containers to indicate their contents. Seals at sites of the ninth century BC Harappan civilization of South Asia record the owner and/or contents of the containers (Hadden, 1986:3). The Pure Food and Drug Act, the first labelling law with national scope in the United States, was passed in 1906. Common law covering the workplace in a number of countries has traditionally required that employers notify workers about significant dangers that they encounter on the job, an obligation formally extended to chronic hazards in the OSHA's Hazard Communication regulation of 1983 in the United States. In this sense, risk communication is probably the oldest way of risk manage ment. However, it is only until recently that risk communication has attracted the attention of regulators as an explicit alternative to the by now more common and formal approaches of standard setting, insuring etc. (Baram, 1982).

Author : Theodore Spencer
Publisher : Nova Science Publishers
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Risk
ISBN : 1634846230

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Risk Perception by Theodore Spencer Pdf

The study of risk perception started when experts in these matters figured out that common people often disagreed about how they envisage risk, even in how people observed that risk. There are many theories about risk perception. Some are exclusively related to risk perception while others are adaptations from perception theories. Many of these theories date back to last century, others are more recent. Chapter One of this book discusses the reasons there are many different theories of risk perception. Chapter Two studies community vulnerability in risk analysis task using multi-source data statistics. Chapter Three offers a thorough analysis of risk perception and psychosocial vulnerability in a health context, from a theoretical perspective, and based on current scientific evidence, in order to open research lines for both of these constructs, both separately and collectively. Chapter Four establishes a relationship between the consumption of drugs like cannabis, cocaine and designer drugs in young university and non-university populations with the young people's perception of risks associated with such consumption. Chapter Five provides an analysis of consumers' choice of pay television and car insurance services based on the perceived risk model.

Author : Joseph Arvai,Louie Rivers III
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2013-10-30
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781136272356

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Effective Risk Communication by Joseph Arvai,Louie Rivers III Pdf

There are two questions often asked of risk communication: what has been learned from past work, and what is needed to push the field forward? Drawing on the experience of leading risk researchers and practitioners, Effective Risk Communication focuses on answering these questions. The book draws together new examples of research and practice from contexts as diverse as energy generation, human health, nuclear waste, climate change, food choice, and social media. This book treats risk communication as much more than the interchange of risk information between experts and non-experts; rather, it aims to emphasise the diversity in viewpoints and practices. In each specially commissioned chapter, the authors reflect on the theoretical and applied underpinnings of their best projects and comment on how their approach could be used effectively by others. Building upon each other, the chapters will provoke new discussion and action around a discipline which many feel is neither meeting important needs in practice, nor living up to its potential in research. Through a more careful examination of the work already done in risk communication, the book will help develop better, more reflective practice for the future.

Author : Timothy C. Earle,Michael Siegrist,Heinz Gutscher
Publisher : Earthscan
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781849773461

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Trust in Cooperative Risk Management by Timothy C. Earle,Michael Siegrist,Heinz Gutscher Pdf

Trust is an important factor in risk management, affecting judgements of risk and benefit, technology acceptance and other forms of cooperation. In this book the world's leading risk researchers explore all aspects of trust as it relates to risk management and communication. Drawing on a wide variety of disciplinary approaches and empirical case studies (on topics such as mobile phone technology, well-known food accidents and crises, wetland management, smallpox vaccination, cooperative risk management of US forests and the disposal of the Brent Spar oil drilling platform), this is the most thorough and up-to-date examination of trust in all its forms and complexities. The book integrates diverse research traditions and provides new insights into the phenomenon of trust. Factors that lead to the establishment and erosion of trust are identified. Insightful analyses are provided for researchers and students of environmental and social science and professionals engaged in risk management and communication in both public and private sectors. Related titles The Tolerability of Risk (2007) 978-1-84407-398-6

Author : Hyunyi Cho,Torsten Reimer,Katherine A. McComas
Publisher : SAGE Publications
Page : 377 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2014-10-29
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781483312194

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The SAGE Handbook of Risk Communication by Hyunyi Cho,Torsten Reimer,Katherine A. McComas Pdf

In this comprehensive, state-of-the-art overview of risk communication, the field’s leading experts summarize theory, current research, and practice in a range of disciplines and describe effective communication approaches for risk situations in diverse contexts, such as health, environment, science, technology, and crisis. Offering practical insights, the contributors consider risk communication in all contexts and applications—interpersonal, organizational, and societal—offering a wider view of risk communication than other volumes. Importantly, the handbook emphasizes the communication side of risk communication, providing integrative knowledge about the models, audiences, messages, and the media and channels necessary for effective risk communication that enables informed judgments and actions regarding risk. Editors Hyunyi Cho, Torsten Reimer, and Katherine McComas have significantly contributed to the field of risk communication with this important reference work—a must-have for students, scholars, and risk and crisis communication professionals.