Science and Risk Communication A Mini-Symposium Sponsored by the Roundtable on Environmental Health Sciences, Research, and Medicine (2001) / Chapter Skim
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Recent events, such as the Wisteria outbreak in the Chesapeake watershed and the emergence of West Nile virus in the Northeast not to mention the current terrorism crisis unclerline the need for the scientific community to improve its risk communication. This will require better understanding of how individuals absorb and apply technical information.
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Viswanath added that it is sometimes necessary to get a message out before all the facts are known because, if predictions prove to be correct, substantial adverse health effects can be averted. He emphasized that, as more facts emerge, it is the duty of the scientific community (e.g., scientists, policy makers, and health care professionals)
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The second strategy used a public service announcement campaign aimed at changing behavior by stressing the importance of folio acid intake before pregnancy, indeed before pregnancy is even considered. Because there are high-risk subpopulations for neural tube defects (e.g., Hispanics)
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Communication works best when there is a sense of community. -Joe Davis Cristine Russell, freelance writer and former national reporter at The Washington Post, stressed that getting health messages out through the media would be more effective if risks were nut in context: if the scientific process that Getting health messages out through the media would be more effective if risks were put in context, the scientific process used to arrive at the results was more clearly described, individual vs.
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Baruch Fischhoff, University Professor, Department of Social and Decision Sciences, Department of Engineering & Public Policy, Department of Social and Decision Sciences, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA. Howard Frumkin, Professor and Chair of the Department of Environmental and Occupational Health at Emory University's Rollins School of Public Health, Director of the Southeast Pediatric Environmental Health Specialty Unit, Atlanta, GA.
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Kathleen Rest, Acting Director, National Institute of Occupational Safety, and Health, Washington, DC. Kenneth Olden, Director, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, National Institutes of Health, Research Triangle Park, NC.
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This project is supported by funds from the National institute of Environmental Health Sciences, NTH. The institute of Medicine is a private, nonprofit organization that provides health policy advice under a congressional charter granted to the National Academy of Sciences.
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