Data from 23 studies confirm theoretical predictions that households' adoption of earthquake
hazard adjustments is correlated with their perceptions of the hazard and alternative …

Perception of health risk can affect medical decisions and health behavior change. Yet the
concept of risk is a difficult one for the public to grasp. Whether perceptions of risk affect …

This paper 1) provides reasons why graphics should be effective aids to communicate risk;
2) reviews the use of visuals, especially graphical displays, to communicate risk; 3) …

Communicating probability information about risks to the public is more difficult than might
be expected. Many studies have examined this subject, so that their resulting …

Background. The communication of probabilistic outcomes is an essential aspect of shared
medical decision making. Methods. The authors conducted a qualitative study using focus …

The communication of risk information is a fundamental aspect of nearly all health promotion
interventions. However, no consensus exists regarding the most effective way to provide …

A particularly important aspect of risk is its cumulative nature, when exposure to a hazard
occurs repeatedly over time. The degree to which people understand cumulative risk has …

This is the first book to clearly assess the increasingly important area of communication of
risk in the health sector. We are moving away from the days when paternalistic doctors …

The impact of uncertainty on Disaster Risk Reduction decision-making has become a
pressing issue for debate over recent years. How do key officials interpret and accommodate …

This chapter first examines how risk experts and nonexperts construe health risks and
indicates systematic differences between the lay and expert risk estimates. Second, it …