Policy makers, health professionals, and patients have to understand health statistics to make informed medical decisions. However, health messages often follow a persuasive rather than an informative approach and undermine the idea of informed decisionmaking. The current practice of health risk communication is often biased: Risks are communicated one sided and in nontransparent formats. There...

Decisions from description and experience impact the psychology of policymaking on climate change. Yet, experiencing climate change consequences in movies and reading descriptive messages about the consequences in newspapers and reports seem to have fallen on deaf ears. This study investigates how a description or experience of cost, timing, and probability of future climate consequences affect...

In this paper, we study the actual operating of an insurance company with random income. A double compound Poisson-Geometric risk model with interference was established. By using the martingale method, the adjustment coefficient equation, the formula and the upper bound of ruin probability, the time to reach a given level in this new risk model were obtained.

We characterize stochastically stable states in noisy asynchronous repeated games. Players repeatedly play a 2 × 2 coordination game with random pairwise matching. The games are noisy because the players may make mistakes when choosing their actions and are asynchronous because only one player can move in each period. We show that if there is a sufficiently patient player, the efficient state c...

Environmental analysts are often hampered in communicating the risks of environmental contaminants due to the myriad of regulatory requirements that are applicable. The use of a qualitative, risk-based control banding strategy for assessment and control of potential environmental contaminants provides a standardized approach to improve risk communication. Presented is a model that provides an e...

Risk communication is about building trust while deploying an interactive and ongoing communication process in which audience members are active participants. This interactive participation may not solve a public health crisis, but it will help reduce unwarranted fear, anxiety and distrust. Consequently, if a government agency fails to understand how to effectively communicate about health risk...

The paper describes the terminology of risk communication in the view of food safety: the theory of stakeholders, the citizens' involvement and the community interest and consultation are reported. Different aspects of risk communication (public communication, scientific uncertainty, trust, care, consensus and crisis communication) are discussed.

The paper describes the terminology of risk communication in the view of food safety: different aspects of risk perception (perceived risk, media triggers, the psychometric paradigm, fright factors and cultural determinants of risk perception) are described. The risk profile elements are illustrated in the manuscript: hazard-food commodity combination(s) of concern; description of the public he...