Petter Lundborg
Professor
Do they know what they are doing? Risk perceptions and smoking behaviour among Swedish teenagers
Författare
Summary, in English
Cross-sectional survey data on Swedish adolescents aged 12 - 18 was used to analyse perceived risks of smoking-related lung cancer, the determinants of these risk perceptions, and how these perceptions related to smoking behaviour. Three major conclusions were drawn: ( 1) that both smokers and non-smokers overestimated the risks of lung cancer, ( 2) that these risk perceptions fell substantially with age, but nevertheless implied risk overestimation, and ( 3) that individuals with higher perceived risks were less likely to be smokers but that risk beliefs had no effect on the number of cigarettes smoked.
Avdelning/ar
- Nationalekonomiska institutionen
- Medicinska fakulteten
Publiceringsår
2004
Språk
Engelska
Sidor
261-286
Publikation/Tidskrift/Serie
Journal of Risk and Uncertainty
Volym
28
Issue
3
Länkar
Dokumenttyp
Artikel i tidskrift
Förlag
Springer
Ämne
- Health Care Service and Management, Health Policy and Services and Health Economy
Nyckelord
- young people
- risk perception
- smoking
Status
Published
ISBN/ISSN/Övrigt
- ISSN: 1573-0476