Community involvement and risk perception at personal and societal levels

Health, Risk and Society

Volumn 3, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 281-292

  Park, E ^a   Scherer, C W ^a   Glynn, C J ^a  

^a MN Department of Human Services   (United States)

Author keywords

Community involvement; Impersonal impact hypothesis; Risk; Risk perception; Unrealistic optimism

Indexed keywords

RADON;

ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMMUNITY; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; HEALTH; HEALTH EDUCATION; HEALTH HAZARD; HEALTH PROMOTION; HEALTH SURVEY; HEART DISEASE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RESEARCH; NORMAL HUMAN; PERCEPTION; PERSONALITY; POPULATION RISK; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RESIDENT; RISK ASSESSMENT; SELF CONCEPT; SOCIETY; UNITED STATES; WATER CONTAMINATION;

EID: 0034760006     PISSN: 13698575     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13698570120079886     Document Type: Article

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