'Careless pork costs lives': Risk stories from science to press release to media

Health, Risk and Society

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 47-64

  Riesch, Hauke ^a   Spiegelhalter, David J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Lifestyle risk; Risk; Risk communication; The media

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ARTICLE; CRIME; DRINKING; FISH; FOOD; FRUIT; HEALTH HAZARD; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; MASS MEDIUM; MEAT; NEOPLASM; NUTRITION; OBESITY; PUBLICATION; RED MEAT; RISK; SCIENCE; SCIENTIST; UNITED KINGDOM; VEGETABLE;

EID: 79951705662     PISSN: 13698575     EISSN: 14698331     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13698575.2010.540645     Document Type: Article

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