Exploring and Communicating Risk: Scenario-Based Workshops

Risk Communication and Public Health

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages

  French, Simon ^a   Maule, John ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Health services personnel; Public health; Risk communication; Risk perception; Training seminars

Indexed keywords

EID: 84920885306     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199562848.003.19     Document Type: Chapter

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