Health Literacy and Public Health Risk Communication
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health literacy, risk communication, public health communication, COVID-19 informationAbstract
Health risk communication has been a field of study, but also of practice, fundamental in the field of public health communication. This article takes a critical, albeit non-systematic, approach to public health risk communication and its application in the Portuguese case, namely by public health authorities, during the first four months of the COVID-19 pandemic. Simultaneously, the importance of literacy levels of the Portuguese population for the understanding, the adoption and the use of the information provided in the effectiveness of risk communication in public health is addressed.
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