I would like to look at different way to education people regarding health risk. Risk communication seems like a good framework. I would like some good resourses about using risk communication in health education.
Dear Ruth, I am using the book written by Rosner et al.:Handbook of Risk theory; Springer, Heidelberg from 2012 for my teaching in Master students in Public health. In this book you find a chapter called Risk communication in Health
Enclosed you find a PDF of this chapter:
Thank you, Gabriele. I appreciate the recommendation. I will look for the book.
The World Health Organisation resources may be useful to you?
http://www.who.int/risk-communication/en/
I can recommend the CDC Health Disparities and Inequalities report and Strategies 2016. This website will also get you to a site on Health Literacy and other great resources on women's and population-specific health, including Minority, Women's, and other special issues in health improvement.
https://www.cdc.gov/minorityhealth/CHDIReport.html
I have always been a fan of Peter Sandman who developed the Risk = Hazard plus outrage idea. (http://www.psandman.com). I know Simon Chapman has used this concept in public health but I can't recall the reference something about mobile phone towers I think.
I too am a big advocate of Peter Sandman's materials. He's been doing it a long time and still highly relevant and in fact led efforts on RC on Zika last year. See link above.
Dear Ruth, I am sure that you are making a clear distinction between RC and public communication!
Check out the resouces available on the CDC risk communication site
Particularly see the Crisis and Emergency Risk Communication (CERC) manual
https://emergency.cdc.gov/cerc/manual/index.asp
https://www.cdc.gov/healthcommunication/risks/index.html
I have used the CDC materials mentioned by Joyce Morris and they are excellent and readily available.
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