Radiation from mobile phone systems: Is it perceived as a threat to people's health? risk

Risk communication

• risk analysis
• risk assessment
• non-EMF risk factors

Risk perception

• personal risk estimation
• risk knowledge
• information source
• information satisfaction
• trust in authorities/institutions
• concerns in women; social and demographic determinants of higher perceived risk

Endpoint

• concern about potential health hazards and comparison to other environmental risks (e.g. lightning, fire accident, car accident, lung cancer by smoking)

Considered exposure sources

• • mobile communications
  • mobile phone
  • mobile phone base station

Investigated group

Danish population, age between 15-75 years.