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Communicating Health Risks to the Public
2021
Przegląd Organizacji
We discuss current limitations in our understanding of how the public perceives multiple risk options, and we highlight opportunities for future research. ...
However, presenting risks in strictly numeric formats is problematic considering that the public often experiences difficulty in comprehending strictly numeric probabilities. ...
In each of these contexts, policy makers and healthcare professionals face the problem of how to communicate health risks to the public. ...
doi:10.33141/po.2021.01.05
fatcat:xm234asnejh4zjrapi2ncds77e
Communicating risk to patients and the public
2012
British Journal of General Practice
reviews, 2,12-14 were included as part of the evidence base, as well as authoritative articles about the Communicating risk to patients and the public "Patients expect their doctor to be able to explain ...
or what does the risk refer to? ...
doi:10.3399/bjgp12x636236
pmid:22520906
pmcid:PMC3310025
fatcat:tgnvvgr6wjfcnbay64pqakwypq
Communicating Risks to Patients and the Public
2016
Universal Journal of Medical Science
The most frequent mistake is underestimating the need for specific skills and ignoring the pitfalls and dos and don'ts of risk communication. ...
However, it is an even greater challenge to communicate sensitive or controversial issues such as risks in particular in emotional situations. ...
Communicating Risks to Patients and the Public Patient's abilities are limited such as with regard to literacy and numeracy. ...
doi:10.13189/ujmsj.2016.040103
fatcat:teu5mxvcgfc7dhze4wssn7gjhe
Risk communication and the social amplification of risk
[chapter]
1991
Communicating Risks to the Public
pertaining to hazards interact with psychological, social, institutional, and cultural processes in ways that can heighten or attenuate public perceptions of risk and shape risk behavior. ...
Th~ interest of public institutions and academia in risk communication has considerably grown during the last five years. Accordingly, risk communication has become a popular topic in the literature. ...
Public pressure on risk-related topics is dependent on a small group of persons at high risk who take up the issue and use their ability to mobilize the public. ...
doi:10.1007/978-94-009-1952-5_14
fatcat:rgy6x3xvezhmvgzc3bx3jsgdai
Credibility and trust in risk communication
[chapter]
1991
Communicating Risks to the Public
Acknowledgement The research described in this chapter was funded by a grant from the Program Group "Technology and Society" of the Research Center Jiilich. I would like to thank Professor H. ...
Whereas experts usually give equal weight to probabilities and the corresponding magnitudes of a given risk, the intuitive risk perception places higherconcem for low-probability, high-<:onsequence risks ...
The second reason is the novelty of stochastic reasoning in public and private policY making (Keeney and von Winterfeldt 1986) . ...
doi:10.1007/978-94-009-1952-5_10
fatcat:whraii7tnzfqpgrlcsi2mftfli
Risks to the public in computers and related systems
2003
Software engineering notes
To economize on space despite the enormously increasing volume of cases and the shrinking page limits, we tersify most items and include online pointers to items in the online Risks Forum, where (R i j ...
Chairman of the ACM Committee on Computers and Public Policy), plus personal contributions by others, as indicated. ...
Please send RISKS-related items to risks@CSL.sri.com. Read RISKS as a newsgroup (comp.risks), or subscribe via the automated Majordomo list server at risks-request@CSL.sri.com. ...
doi:10.1145/966221.966661
fatcat:oplsekieszfhvhykkcxlsravna
Strategies of risk communication: Observations from two participatory experiments
[chapter]
1991
Communicating Risks to the Public
The use of risk analyses for policy purposes requires efforts to communicate risk information to decision makers, stakeholders, and the general public. ...
Linked to tbis goal is the need for risk managers to communicate the findings of risk studies for initiating individual actions to enhance personal protection, to alert people about hazardous situations ...
I would like to thank Dr. B. Johnson from the NJ-Department of Environmentaal Protection for his helpful comments and Jeanne Kasperson for a thorough review of an earlier draft of this paper. ...
doi:10.1007/978-94-009-1952-5_20
fatcat:zgmnaatapnfr5kbrcalrwea7hu
On the state of the art: risk communication to the public
2001
Reliability Engineering & System Safety
decisions to the general public. ...
They also note that issues of concern to the public may not be limited to risk. ...
doi:10.1016/s0951-8320(00)00090-9
fatcat:uszarqpbq5f2vcimn7ndow65ci
The Importance of Enterprise Risk Management to Public Sector Organisations in Nigeria
2019
Public Policy and Administration Research
The paper dealt with the importance of enterprise risk management to public sector organisations in Nigeria. ...
The paper found that the practice of enterprise risk management is an evolving practice among public sector organisations globally. ...
According to McPhee (2014) , this underscored the role of the Government in encouraging risk management in the public sector. ...
doi:10.7176/ppar/9-3-17
fatcat:ivpkqf5amnegpbho33s3gnb7ri
Challenges to the notion of publics in public relations: implications of the risk society for the discipline
2002
Public Relations Review
Focusing on the role of the public for the firm, this paper argues that the emergence of the powerful consumer and the critical public is not coincidental but a symptom of the emergence of the risk society ...
The notion risk society offers a conceptual framework for understanding the emergence of new communicatively powerful publics. ...
This paper presents the notion of risk society as a basis for building up a framework for reconceptualising our approach to publics. ...
doi:10.1016/s0363-8111(02)00110-8
fatcat:lvmstkrgbzbivbqzzhbbbbf2rm
Risk-based regulation and reforms to fitness to practise tribunals in the United Kingdom: Serving the public interest?
2016
Health, Risk and Society
, to a proactive risk-adverse overseer of professional standards designed to secure public safety (Waring and Dixon-8 Woods 2010). ...
it, alongside what can and should be done to punish individuals who fail to effectively manage the risk of harm to others, requires the broadening of current conceptions surrounding public involvement ...
doi:10.1080/13698575.2016.1232374
fatcat:zscnvia2sfa3leunhhntfxfnke
Informing and Educating the Public About Risk
[chapter]
1987
Insuring and Managing Hazardous Risks: From Seveso to Bhopal and Beyond
The objective of informing and educaiing the public about risk issues seems easy to attain in principle, but, in practice, may be difficult to accomplish. ...
To be effective, risk communicators must recognize and overcome a number of obstacles that have their roots in the limitations of scientific risk assessment and the idiosyncracies of the human mind. ...
(7) Are all data and processes of the risk analysis open to public scrutiny? ...
doi:10.1007/978-3-642-83074-7_11
fatcat:t4n6uczt3nbu3e6f3p2qp62lpu
Simulating the Risks from Aircraft Debris to the Public on the Ground
2015
Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Application and Theory of Automation in Command and Control Systems - ATACCS '15
This paper presents a system that was developed to simulate the risks from aircraft debris on ground-based infrastructures. ...
Airprox investigations and similar studies into near-miss incidents focus on the risk to passengers and crew. They do not consider the impact of debris. ...
In order to prove this hypothesis, it is necessary to disprove the alternate hypothesis: H1: Using the system will affect the user's risk perception of a mid-air collision impacting the public. ...
doi:10.1145/2899361.2899372
dblp:conf/atacss/ProuzeauJ15
fatcat:oq2y2xsuzvdjji2xlstgiushvi
Relative risk rather than absolute risk reduction should be preferred to sensitise the public to preventive actions
2021
Gut
to driving public adherence to vaccination. 7 It may have been much less the case had the absolute risk reduction been discussed, which was around 1% (confirmed COVID-19 cases 1.21% and 0.07% in the ...
relation to the perception of risk by the public, for a disease whose overall case fatality is in the 2%-4% range 3 -exactly the same magnitude as that of colorectal cancer (CRC) incidence (2%) reported ...
doi:10.1136/gutjnl-2021-324689
pmid:33811040
fatcat:jb6j74bm7fb75dvl3aswn6lv7i
Public health concern behind the exposure to persistent organic pollutants and the risk of metabolic diseases
2012
BMC Public Health
Based on this novel knowledge, this article aims at stimulating discussion and evaluating the effectiveness of current POP legislation to protect humans against the risk of metabolic diseases. ...
This situation should attract the greatest attention from the public health and governmental authorities. ...
Recently, part his work was presented at the High Level Consultative Conference of the Environment and Public Health Community in Europe, Berlin-Potsdam, Germany. ...
doi:10.1186/1471-2458-12-298
pmid:22520265
pmcid:PMC3408385
fatcat:dgwggjakt5hlncq3zu5ss7rgam
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