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Creating Risk-Sensitive Persons The Roles of Choice and Chance in Staying Healthy
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ABSTRACT: Having examined the relationships between risk-attitude and the practice of preventive health behavior, I suggest practical ways of creating more risk-sensitive patients and health professionals. Personalizing risk and relating health behavior to individual values is a more effective way to create risk-sensitive persons than relating risk behavior to specific diseases.This content is limited to qualifying members.
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