Insights into Improving Risk and Safety Communication through Environmental Health Literacy
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 15500406 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Marti Lindsey (University of Arizona, corresponding author), Ben Richmond (University of Arizona), Daniel R Quintanar (City of Tucson, Water Department, Tucson, AZ 85701, USA), Jordan Spradlin (University of Arizona), Loren Halili (University of Arizona) |
| Year | 2022 |
| Volume | 19 |
| Issue | 9 |
| Pages | 5330-5330 |
| Publication date | 2022-04-27 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1661-7827 • E-ISSN: 1660-4601 |
| Publisher | Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (PUBLISHER • CH) |
| DOI | 10.3390/ijerph19095330 |
| PMID | 35564724 |
| OpenAlex | W4280565170 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 28 |
Messages and materials developed to communicate risk to the public are often misunderstood because the public misperceives risk, science information is too complex, leading to audience misunderstandings, and an overarching focus on the details of the problem without supplying solutions or actions to keep the public safe. This article describes the creation of a communication model to improve risk communication that includes safety information. The authors describe essential components of Risk and Safety Communication based on features of Environmental Health Literacy (EHL), which informed the creation of a protocol for developing risk communication messages and materials. An online training module was developed to aid communicators in creating information to enable the public to protect themselves, their family, and their community, leading to improved comprehension of how the environment impacts health. These principles were developed in a series of focus groups, identifying how the public perceives risk, how they prefer to receive communication, and how participants respond to materials developed using the principles. Important topics discussed are understanding the literacy levels of the target audience, applying that understanding to developing messages, how risk perception leads to misperceptions and how to address those misperceptions by using plain language when developing focused messages and materials
Business · Comprehension · Focus group · Health care · Health communication · Health literacy · Internet privacy · Literacy · Pedagogy · Perception · Plain language · Political science · Public health · Public relations · Risk analysis (engineering · Risk communication · Risk perception · Science communication · Computer Science · Discourse Analysis in Language Studies · Focus Groups and Qualitative Methods · Medicine · Nursing · Psychology · Risk Perception and Management · Marketing
Making sense of focus groups
The Emergence of Environmental Health Literacy—From Its Roots to Its Future Potential
A tale of two health literacies
Effective Risk Communication
Aligning Community-Engaged Research to Context
Environmental Health Literacy as Knowing, Feeling, and Believing
Defining Environmental Health Literacy
What Do Childcare Providers Know about Environmental Influences on Children’s Health? Implications for Environmental Health Literacy Efforts
Developing a Short Assessment of Environmental Health Literacy (SA-EHL)
The Public Perception of Risk
Focus group methodology
Evaluating the effects of living with contamination from the lens of trauma
What environmental and technological risk communication research and health risk research can learn from each other
Using and analysing focus groups
The Routledge Handbook of Health Communication
Qualitative inquiry and research design
Developing and Implementing a Triangulation Protocol for Qualitative Health Research
Leveraging risk communication science across US federal agencies
From Bhopal to the Informating of Environmentalism
| Citations per year | 1 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2023 - 2026 (4) |
| Highly cited | No |