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Defining and assessing risky behaviours |
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| Authors: | Linda McKie BA MSc Phd Mazen Al-Bashir MB Bch MSc MRCGP Tanya Anagnostopoulou BA MA MA Phd Peter Csepe MD Helena Fonseca MD Aida El-Asfahani BSc MSc PhD Stanislav Funiak MD PhD Rachel Javetz BA MA PhD Samsu Samsuridjal MD |
| Affiliation: | Senior Lecturer in Health Education, Department of General Practice, Aberdeen Scotland;Physician, Jordan Centre for Family Health, Amman, Jordan;Lecturer in Psychology, University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece;Assistant Professor of Social Medicine, Semmelweis University Medical School, Budapest, Hungary;Associate Professor of Nutrition and Food Science, Al-Menoufia University, Shebin, Egypt;Paediatrician, Santa Mane Hospital, Lisbon, Portugal;Senior Lecturer in Internal Medicine, Comenius University, Martin, Slovakia;Patient Representative, Hadassah Medical Center, Jerusalem, Israel;Lecturer in Medicine, University of Indonesia, Jakarta, Indonesia |
| Abstract: | This paper presents the deliberations and conclusions of an international group of health practitioners, researchers and planners who met in 1991 to explore risky behaviours and risk assessment in the context of the World Health Organization's strategy Health for All By 2000 A definition of risky behaviours is discussed and a method of exploring risk contexts,'a risk equation', is presented Lay risk assessment is explored and contrasted with professional perceptions of risk as evidenced in health education campaigns It is concluded that the application of epidemiological techniques — the study of the incidence and prevalence of risk-related and health-related behaviours — employing qualitative methods provides a useful means of exploring the social and cultural context of risk behaviour |
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