Given the controversy over effectiveness of age-based breast cancer (BC) screening, offering risk-stratified screening to women may be a way improve patient outcomes with detection earlier-stage disease. While this approach seems promising, its integration requires buy-in many stakeholders. In cross-sectional study, we surveyed Canadian healthcare professionals about their views and attitudes t...

Historically, there have been five sources for information about the need for immunization: family physicians and other health professionals, public health units, government health bodies, voluntary health agencies and pharmaceutical companies. When these bodies have had the opportunity to present their message directly to parents and others, it has produced results: more children are vaccinate...

Following the notion of skill-biased FDI fl ows from developed to less developed regions, high-skilled workers are likely to benefi t from FDI to a larger extent. They earn a productivity advantage that potentially transfers into a skilled wage premium. This gives rise to distributional confl ict that might turn into heterogeneous attitudes toward FDI infl ows in line with skill. In this paper ...

BACKGROUND In medical training, statistics is considered a very difficult course to learn and teach. Current studies have found that students' attitudes toward statistics can influence their learning process. Measuring, evaluating and monitoring the changes of students' attitudes toward statistics are important. Few studies have focused on the attitudes of postgraduates, especially medical post...

ings. Few studies have sought information on young men’s attitudes about parenting and sexual behavior.5 While previous research has shown that young men living in areas with substandard social and economic resources are more likely than those from more advantaged backgrounds to say that they have fathered a child or that their partner has been pregnant,6 there are also young men in low-income ...

This paper studies the role of risk attitudes in determining optimality winner-take-all contests. We compare typical single-winner lottery contest with two alternatives, both spreading rewards to more players: through holding multiple prize-giving competitions or guaranteeing a bottom prize for losers. In first comparison, we find that multiple-competition is as effective when contestants are n...

Depot formulations are not widely used in everyday practice. This study aimed to assess psychiatrists' attitudes toward the use of long-acting injectable (LAI) antipsychotics in schizophrenia. We interviewed 113 French psychiatrists about the factors that influenced their prescription of LAI antipsychotics. Multidimensional and cluster analyses were used to detect correlations. The most importa...