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Environmental Health Risk Perception in Australia
This is one of the most comprehensive surveys of the attitudes of the Australian public toward the subject of environmental health.
Prepared by Centre for Population Studies in Epidemiology South Australian Department of Human Services for enHealth Council
Published by AusInfo for Commonwealth Department of Health and Aged Care
2000
Printable version of Environmental Health Risk Perception in Australia (PDF 3154 KB)
This study presents a wide ranging and detailed analysis of the perceptions of health risks of a representative sample of the Australian population. This is one of the most comprehensive surveys of the attitudes of the Australian public toward the subject of environmental health. The survey has reported on the perceived risks to health of a large number of hazards present in the environment, both to the Australian public as a whole, and to the individual respondents and their families. The issue of the availability of information about health risks and people's confidence in various sources of information has been addressed. People's opinions as to where responsibility for protecting the public from health risks lies, and how well these responsibilities have been met, are reported.
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