Power And Risk In Policymaking

Download or read book Power and Risk in Policymaking written by Josephine Adekola and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2019-08-22 with total page 133 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents detailed accounts of policymaking in contemporary risk communication. Specifically, it expands on the understanding of the policy decision-making process where there is little or no evidential base, and where multiple interpretations, power dynamics and values shape the interpretation of public health risk issues. The book argues that public health risk communication is a process embedded within multiple dimensions of power and set out practical way forward for public health risk communication.