Different frames, different fears: Communicating about chlorinated drinking water and cancer in the Canadian media

Social Science and Medicine

Volumn 56, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 1279-1293

  Driedger, S Michelle ^a   Eyles, John ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

^b MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Canada; Cancer; Chlorinated drinking water; Media frames; Metaphors; Risk communication

Indexed keywords

CHLORINE; DRINKING WATER;

CANCER; CHLORINATION; DRINKING WATER; HEALTH RISK; RISK PERCEPTION;

ARTICLE; CANADA; CANCER; CANCER RISK; CHLORINATION; DISINFECTION; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; MICROBIAL CONTAMINATION; ORGANIZATION; POLICY; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; TECHNOLOGY; WATER SUPPLY;

BIBLIOMETRICS; CANADA; CARCINOGENS, ENVIRONMENTAL; CHLORINE; COMMUNICATION; DISINFECTANTS; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS; MASS MEDIA; NEOPLASMS; PUBLIC HEALTH; RISK ASSESSMENT; WATER MICROBIOLOGY; WATER PURIFICATION; WATER SUPPLY;

CANADA;

EID: 0037368854     PISSN: 02779536     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0277-9536(02)00128-4     Document Type: Article

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