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Faculty of Social Sciences - Papers (Archive)

2010

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Beliefs And Beyond: What Can We Learn From Qualitative Studies Of Lay People's Understandings Of Cancer Risk?, Wendy Lipworth, Heather M. Davey, Stacy M. Carter, Claire Hooker, Wendy Hu Jan 2010

Beliefs And Beyond: What Can We Learn From Qualitative Studies Of Lay People's Understandings Of Cancer Risk?, Wendy Lipworth, Heather M. Davey, Stacy M. Carter, Claire Hooker, Wendy Hu

Faculty of Social Sciences - Papers (Archive)

Background  Clinicians and public health professionals are centrally concerned with mediating risk. However, people often resist the risk-related information that is communicated to them by experts, or have their own models of risk that conflict with expert views. Quantitative studies have clearly demonstrated the importance of health beliefs and various cognitive and emotional processes in shaping risk perception. More recently, a growing body of qualitative research has emerged, exploring lay conceptualizations, experiences and constructions of cancer risk. To date, this literature has not been synthesized. Objective  We report the findings of a synthesis of qualitative literature regarding the ways in …


Early Years Studies, Edward Melhuish Jan 2010

Early Years Studies, Edward Melhuish

Faculty of Social Sciences - Papers (Archive)

Keynote address at the MRC Population Health Sciences Research Network/MRC Methodology Research Panel Workshop, 21 January 2010, London, United Kingdom