Attitude to health risk in the Canadian population: a cross-sectional survey

N Bansback, M Harrison, M Sadatsafavi… - … Open Access Journal, 2016 - cmajopen.ca
Background: Risk is a ubiquitous part of health care. Understanding how people respond to
risks is important for predicting how populations make health decisions. Our objective was to …

Variations in risk attitude across race, gender, and education

AB Rosen, JS Tsai, SM Downs - Medical Decision Making, 2003 - journals.sagepub.com
Background. Significant disparities in health care utilization exist across gender and race.
Little is known about the patient-specific factors that may contribute to this variation. This …

Is risk attitude really specific within the health context domain? Further evidence from an Italian survey using probability equivalent technique and face-to-face …

M Ruggeri, M van der Pol - Health, Risk & Society, 2012 - Taylor & Francis
Individuals' risk attitude is an important concept within the health domain. A previous study
showed that risk attitude varied across health outcomes, life years and quality of life. The aim …

[HTML][HTML] Predicting medical practices using various risk attitude measures

S Massin, A Nebout, B Ventelou - The European Journal of Health …, 2018 - Springer
This paper investigates the predictive power of several risk attitude measures on a series of
medical practices. We elicit risk preferences on a sample of 1500 French general …

Do risk attitudes differ across domains and respondent types?

LA Prosser, E Wittenberg - Medical Decision Making, 2007 - journals.sagepub.com
Objective. To evaluate differences in risk attitude across the domains of health and money
for 2 types of respondents, patients and community members. Methods. Two groups of …

Health condition and risk attitude in the Dutch population: an exploratory approach

J Martín-Fernández, HJ Medina-Palomino… - Health, Risk & …, 2018 - Taylor & Francis
Risk is a central aspect of health condition because attitudes towards risk may influence the
inclination to adopt behaviours that can influence health condition. Taking preventive health …

Knowing the risk: relationships between risk behaviour and health knowledge

PA Cook, MA Bellis - Public health, 2001 - Elsevier
Communicating risk is a key public health strategy. The implicit assumptions are that the
public interprets risk information in a logical fashion and adopts behavioural changes to …

[HTML][HTML] Preference variation: where does health risk attitude come into the equation?

SPI Huls, J Veldwijk, JD Swait, JV Johansson… - Value in Health, 2022 - Elsevier
Objectives Decisions about health often involve risk, and different decision makers interpret
and value risk information differently. Furthermore, an individual's attitude toward health …

[HTML][HTML] Comparing GPs' risk attitudes for their own health and for their patients': a troubling discrepancy?

A Nebout, M Cavillon, B Ventelou - BMC Health Services Research, 2018 - Springer
Background In this paper, we report the results of risk attitudes elicitation of a French general
practitioners national representative sample (N= 1568). Methods Willingness to take risks in …

Health risk aversion, health risk affinity, and socio-economic position in the USA: The demographics of multiple risk

R Hahn, S Vesely, MH Chang - Health, Risk & Society, 2000 - Taylor & Francis
Understanding the distribution of behavioural risk factors in the population can improve
health promotion. This article reports on a research project which analysed the distribution of …