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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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Risk attitudes and risky behavior

Journal of Economic Psychology, 1996
Abstract In economic theory, risk aversion is a characteristic of the typical utility function of money. Observations of how people deal with risks in real life have cast some doubts on the prevalence of risk aversion. People buy insurance, but they also gamble and take investment risks.
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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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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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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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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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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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Risk-Taking Behaviors in Adolescence

JAMA: The Journal of the American Medical Association, 1987
The biopsychosocial phenomenon of adolescent substance use is of major importance to all health care professionals. As suggested by the excellent study of Robinson et al 1 in this issue ofThe Journaladolescent substance use should be viewed within the larger perspective of adolescent risktaking behaviors.
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Risk Behaviors

2022
Morgan L. Jones, Drew Butler, Gerhard Plenert   +2 more
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