Background Effective risk communication is essential for informed decision making.
Unfortunately, many people struggle to understand typical risk communications because …

Background. Being confronted with uncertainty in the context of health-related judgments
and decision making can give rise to the occurrence of systematic biases. These biases may …

Informed decision making requires that people understand health risks. Unfortunately, many
people are not risk literate and are biased by common risk communication practices. In this …

Guided by feminist and a queer intersectional framework, this article explores the discursive
production of sexuality in contemporary sexual science research. Specifically, this article …

Infographics of modest complexity are commonly used to convey knowledge to non-experts.
However, little is known regarding how the use of infographics may convince the public and …

Visual aids can improve comprehension of risks associated with medical treatments,
screenings, and lifestyles. Do visual aids also help decision makers accurately assess their …

Educational programs for preventing sexually transmitted infections (STIs) have often been
implemented in different settings and populations. Mathematica Policy Research and Child …

Objective To effectively practice evidence-based medicine, surgeons need to understand
and be able to communicate health-relevant numerical information. We present the first …

Background Understanding determinants of preventive sexual behaviours is important for
intervention efforts to support these behaviours and, thereby, reduce STIs and HIV burden …

In many European and other high-income, Western countries, condom use has been
decreasing among youth. A variety of promotional strategies to increase condom use exists …