Background Disease risk calculators are increasingly web‐based, but previous studies have
shown that risk information often poses problems for lay users. Objective To examine how …

This paper reviews approaches to vulnerability in public health, introducing a series of 10
papers addressing vulnerability in health in Africa. We understand vulnerability as …

Abstract “Modern epidemiology” has a primary orientation to the study of multiple risk factors
for chronic noncommunicable diseases. If epidemiologists are to understand the …

This book focuses upon the way that the new public health, almost in spite of its own rhetoric
and objectives, continues to rely upon a traditionally modernist, science-based approach to …

How people think about a hazard often deviates from experts' assessment of its probability
and severity. The aim of this chapter is to clarify how people perceive risks. We thereby focus …

Dominant models of health view people as essentially separable from their environment,
affected directly by specific physical events or indirectly through idiosyncratic perceptions …

In addition to management and control, which in risk research have been studied
extensively, there is a diversity and heterogeneity in people's responses to uncertainty that …

The discipline of epidemiology, which holds major influence on public health policy as well
as on clinical medical practice, has in recent decades to a large extent been concerned with …

Studies by Sjöberg published in 1999 (Journal of Risk Research), Volume 2, Number 2, pp.
129-49) have led him to conclude that perceived risk is mostly determined by probability of …

Risk is a concept with multiple meanings and is ideologically loaded. The author reviews the
literature on risk perception and risk as a sociocultural construct, with particular reference to …