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Hyping health risks : environmental hazards in daily life and the science of epidemiology
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| Sumber | Katalog Perpustakaan Poltekkes Bandung |
| Jenis | Katalog |
| Tahun | 2008 |
| Penerbit | Columbia University Press |
| Abstrak | The media constantly bombard us with news of health hazards lurking in our everyday lives, but many of these hazards turn out to have been greatly overblown. According to author and epidemiologist Geoffrey C. Kabat, this hyping of low-level environmental hazards leads to needless aanxiety and confusion on the part of the public concerning which exposures have important effects on health and which are likely to have minimal or no effect. Kabat approaches health scares as social facts" and shows that a variety of factors can contribute to the inflating of a hazard. These include skewed reporting by the media, but also, surprisingly, the actions of researchers who may emphasize certain findings while ignoring others |
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