Perspective: Communicating risk at the local level - Improving your chances

Human and Ecological Risk Assessment (HERA)

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 1-5

  Holtzhauer, Frank J ^a   Huang, Jianshi ^a,b   Pompili, Michael J ^a  

^a Health Promotion in the Columbus Health Department   (United States)

^b Nashville and Davison County Metro Health Department   (United States)

Author keywords

Risk assessment; Risk communication; Risk probabilities; Understanding risk

Indexed keywords

EID: 26444601338     PISSN: 10807039     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10807039891284163     Document Type: Article

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