Information from Friends Influences Health-Risk Aversion Behavior from Arsenic Groundwater Contamination in Four US Locations

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrew J. Leidner
Keyword(s):  
Health Risk ◽  
Risk Aversion ◽  
Groundwater Contamination

Groundwater contamination and health risk posed by industrial effluent in NCR region

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mansoor ul Haq Khan ◽  
Mohammad Shakeel ◽  
Naved Ahsan ◽  
Sirajuddin Ahmed ◽  
Nadeem A. Khan
Keyword(s):  
Health Risk ◽  
Groundwater Contamination ◽  
Industrial Effluent

scholarly journals Risk Preferences and Obesity: A Behavioral Economics Approach

2016 ◽  
Vol 6 (7) ◽  
pp. 42
Author(s):  
Sumati Srinivas
Keyword(s):  
Health Risk ◽  
Risk Aversion ◽  
Risk Preferences ◽  
The United States ◽  
Heavy Alcohol Consumption ◽  
Negative Effect ◽  
Nationally Representative ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Risk Knowledge ◽  
Specific Health

<p>Risk aversion has been shown to have a negative effect on adverse health behaviors such as smoking and heavy alcohol consumption. However, the significance and sign of the effect of risk aversion on the tendency to be obese has not been established in previous research. Additionally, the knowledge of specific health risks arising from obesity has been shown to have a significant negative effect on obesity, although the interaction between health risk awareness and risk aversion has not been studied. This paper fills this gap in the literature by studying the relationship between risk preferences, health risk knowledge and the occurrence of obesity within. In this paper, data from a nationally representative survey of adults in the United States is used to determine the significance of measures for both risk aversion and health risk knowledge on the likelihood of obesity, while controlling for the usual variables shown by previous research to be predictors for obesity. Risk aversion is found to have a positive and significant effect on obesity within the general population; however, this effect loses its significance within sub-populations who exhibit awareness of the health risk from obesity, as measured by two different proxy variables.</p>

Evaluation of groundwater contamination in Chandigarh: Source identification and health risk assessment

2019 ◽  
Vol 255 ◽  
pp. 113062 ◽  
Author(s):  
Khaiwal Ravindra ◽  
Parteek Singh Thind ◽  
Sahil Mor ◽  
Tanbir Singh ◽  
Suman Mor
Keyword(s):  
Risk Assessment ◽  
Health Risk ◽  
Groundwater Contamination ◽  
Health Risk Assessment ◽  
Source Identification

scholarly journals Health risk analysis for ingestion of contaminants from existing groundwater contamination at selected UMTRA project sites

1988 ◽  
Author(s):  
L.D. Hamilton ◽  
W.H. Medeiros ◽  
A. Meinhold ◽  
S.C. Morris ◽  
P.D. Moskowitz ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Risk Analysis ◽  
Health Risk ◽  
Groundwater Contamination
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