Health scares: Professional priorities

Health

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 3-21

  Hooker, Claire ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Expert; Health scare; Media; Risk controversy; Social amplification of risk

Indexed keywords

ADMINISTRATIVE PERSONNEL; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; COMMUNICABLE DISEASE; DRUG TOXICITY; EPIDEMIOLOGY; FEAR; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; MASS MEDIUM; POLICY; POLLUTION; PUBLIC HEALTH; RISK ASSESSMENT; SOCIOLOGY; TIME; UNCERTAINTY;

ADMINISTRATIVE PERSONNEL; CAUSALITY; COMMUNICABLE DISEASES; DRUG TOXICITY; ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION; FEAR; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MASS MEDIA; PUBLIC HEALTH; PUBLIC POLICY; RISK ASSESSMENT; SOCIOLOGY, MEDICAL; TIME FACTORS; UNCERTAINTY;

EID: 73549103633     PISSN: 13634593     EISSN: 14617196     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1363459309341875     Document Type: Article

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