ArticleHealth, risk & society2010
Uncertain Futures: Individual Risk and Social Context in Decision-Making in Cancer Screening.
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- Questioning 'Informed Choice' in Medical Screening: The Role of Neoliberal Rhetoric, Culture, and Social Context.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
- Translating Cancer Risk Prediction Models into Personalized Cancer Risk Assessment Tools: Stumbling Blocks and Strategies for Success.Cancer epidemiology, biomarkers & prevention : a publication of the American Association for Cancer Research, cosponsored by the American Society of Preventive Oncology · 2020Article
- The Relationship between Health Disparities, Psychosocial Functioning and Health Outcomes in Pediatric Hematology-Oncology and Stem Cell Transplant Populations: Recommendations for Clinical Care.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2020Article
- Measurement invariance of intuitive cancer risk perceptions across diverse populations: The Cognitive Causation and Negative Affect in Risk scales.Journal of health psychology · 2019Article
- The sociology of cancer: a decade of research.Sociology of health & illness · 2018Review
- Can you un-ring the bell? A qualitative study of how affect influences cancer screening decisions.BMC cancer · 2017Article
- Examining Intuitive Cancer Risk Perceptions in Haitian-Creole and Spanish-Speaking Populations.Journal of transcultural nursing : official journal of the Transcultural Nursing Society · 2016Article
- Deliberative and intuitive risk perceptions as predictors of colorectal cancer screening over time.Journal of behavioral medicine · 2016Article
- Examining intuitive risk perceptions for cancer in diverse populations.Health, risk & society · 2014Article
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- How do women at increased, but unexplained, familial risk of breast cancer perceive and manage their risk? A qualitative interview study.Hereditary cancer in clinical practice · 2011Article
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Abstract
A core logic of cancer control and prevention, like much in public health, turns on the notion of decision-making under conditions of uncertainty. Population-level data are increasingly used to develop risk profiles, or estimates, that clinicians and the consumer public may use to guide individual decisions about cancer screening. Individual risk perception forms a piece of a larger social economy of decision-making and choice that makes population screening possible. Individual decision-making depends on accessing and interpreting available clinical information, filtered through the lens of personal values and both cognitive and affective behavioral processes. That process is also mediated by changing social roles and interpersonal relationships. This paper begins to elucidate the influence of this "social context" within the complexity of cancer screening. Reflecting on current work in risk and health, I consider how ethnographic narrative methods can enrich this model.
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