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ASSAULTIVE BEHAVIOR: Know the Risks

Journal of Psychosocial Nursing and Mental Health Services, 1991
1. Violence in our society is an increasing national concern, and violence in health-care settings reflects this trend. Assaultive episodes continue to increase in health-care settings due to various cultural, sociological, and political factors. 2. Present administrative and educational solutions to the problems of assault have failed to decrease the ...
D T, Blair, S A, New
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The Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance System: Measuring Health-risk Behaviors

American Journal of Health Behavior, 2001
To measure priority health-riskbehaviors among youth.The Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance System (YRBSS) monitors priority health-risk behaviors among youth.In 1999, many high school students practiced behaviors that contribute to leading health problems--16.4% rarely or never wore safety belts and, during the past 30 days, 17.3% carried a weapon, 34.8%
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Adolescent risk-taking behavior

Journal of Adolescent Health Care, 1987
There is general agreement that violence in adolescence is occurring at unprecedented and unacceptably high levels. Society has begun to grapple with this problem but lacks the information to help guide it toward a resolution. Are our young people purposely or unconsciously pursuing a self-destructive course?
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Adolescent injury risk behavior

International Journal of Adolescent Medicine and Health, 2004
Health-risk behaviors that contribute to the leading causes of morbidity and mortality among adolescents and young adults are often established during adolescence and extended into adulthood. Unintentional motor vehicle injury is the leading cause of mortality in childhood and adolescence in developed countries.
Joav, Merrick, Isack, Kandel, Liora, Birnbaum, Eytan, Hyam, Joseph, Press, Mohammed, Morad   +5 more
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Perceived risks and driving behavior

Accident Analysis & Prevention, 1986
Claims have been made that safer cars result in drivers who take more risks. However, there are two basic design changes that make cars safer: the first reduces the likelihood of a crash; the second reduces the chance of injury during a crash. Because design changes that reduce the likelihood of a crash also often provide direct and immediate feedback,
A K, Lund, B, O'Neill
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Behavioral risks for HIV in adolescents

Acta Paediatrica, 1994
A psychosocial perspective on adolescent risk behavior is used to highlight aspects of psychological development and social environment that are relevant to sexual activity and substance use. Differences in behavior are also related to factors such as age and gender that have biological, developmental, and demographic implications.
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Assessment of risk taking behavior.

Psychological Bulletin, 1964
Risk taking propensity has been hypothesized to be a general personality disposition and many devices have been proposed for use in its assessment. Several types of studies relevant to the validity of these measures are reviewed.
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High-Risk Sexual Behaviors

2012
Adolescence is a time of life characterized by danger because of the many changes that occur, the many ties that are severed: ties to childhood, ties to the child's body as it begins to take on an adult appearance, ties to a once-familiar body image and psyche as hormones complete the transformation to adulthood, ties to an unconscious that is ...
Thierry, Troussier, Pierre, Benghozi, Marc, Ganem   +2 more
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Behavioral toxicology and risk assessment

Neurotoxicology and Teratology, 1990
In order to establish safe exposure levels to toxic chemicals, risk assessment guidelines have been developed. These guidelines evaluate epidemiologic and animal research data on a particular chemical, as well as dose-response relationships, animal to human extrapolation and assessment of exposure levels of populations.
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Multiple sclerosis and risk behavior

Multiple Sclerosis and Related Disorders, 2012
There are several aspects to the concept of risk behavior in MS patients. Thus, a recent publication (Heesen et al., 2010) assessed patients. Foremost is their attitude to novel immunotherapies with the attendant short and long term hazards. Related to this, is their concern about everyday risks to health before disease onset.
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