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Communicating Risks and Benefits: An Evidence-Based User's Guide

Effective risk communication is essential to the well-being of any organization and those people who depend on it. Ineffective communication can cost lives, money, and reputations. Communicating Risks and Benefits: An Evidence-Based User's Guide provides the scientific foundations for effective communication.

Cover of the book Communicating Risk and Benefits: An Evidence-Based User

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Communicating Risks and Benefits: An Evidence-Based User's Guide [PDF - 3,128KB]

Baruch Fischhoff, PhD, Noel T. Brewer, PhD, & Julie S. Downs, PhD, editors

US Department of Health and Human Services
Food and Drug Administration
Risk Communication Advisory Committee and consultants

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