Laypeople's Health Concerns and Health Beliefs in Regard to Risk Perception of Mobile Communication risk

Risk communication

• non-EMF risk factors

Risk perception

• general risk estimation
• personal risk estimation
• information requirement
• risk knowledge
• information satisfaction
• health concerns, health beliefs and non-scientific beliefs

Endpoint

• hypersensitivity/subjective complaints

Considered exposure sources

• • power transmission line
  • mobile communications
  • mobile phone
  • mobile phone base station
  • cordless phone

Investigated group

adults of German-speaking part of Switzerland.