Communicating Public Health Risk : The Case of Radon Gas (Hardcover)

Foreword

1. An introduction to radon gas and risk communication

?Part I. Radon: a public health issue

?2. Indoor radon as a public health problem. Available evidence on radon and its health effects

?3. Radon and citizen science

?Part II. Communicating public health

?4. Public health communication from digital native media

?5. Opportunities for information visualization in risk communication

?6. Health communication, awareness raising, and metaverse: an approach to the radon gas situation in Spain

?Part III. Public perception of risk

?7. When risk is invisible and at home: news coverage on radon gas in local media

?8. Public Perception and Treatment of Risk Communication in Latin America

?9. Media coverage of risk and expert opinion

10. Conclusions: deductions on health communication in the current media scene and challenges for the future

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