introduction: unsafe and illegal abortions are the third leading cause of maternal death. it affects physical, emotional and social health of women and their families. abortion is a multi-dimensional phenomenon with several social, legal, and religious implications. the views of policy-makers affect the approach to abortion in every society. understanding the attitudes and knowledge of high-ran...

In fields on which decisions need to be taken including health, as we are seeing nowadays in the COVID-19 crisis, decision-makers face multiple criteria and results with a random component. stochastic multicriteria decision-making models, risk attitude of decision maker is relevant factor. Traditionally, shape utility function only element that represents maker’s attitude. The eduction process ...

We describe the problem of decision making under ignorance and discuss the need of introducing a decision attitude or disposition in solving this problem. We show the OWA operators provide a general framework for evaluating the alternatives when the payoffs are numeric values. We then turn to the problem of decision making when the payoffs are linguistic values drawn from an ordinal scale. A so...

Decision theory is used to define a notion of ‘relevance’ in terms of decision problems. Decision problems are also used to explain why attitude attributions are made. Assuming that belief attributions are made to explain unexpected actions, and that assertions have to be relevant, it is shown that potentially ambiguous, or underspecified, de re belief attributions can be disambiguated by conte...

BACKGROUND Concordance and Shared Decision-Making (SDM) are considered measures of the quality of care that improves communication, promotes patient participation, creates a positive relationship with the healthcare professional, and results in greater adherence with the treatment plan. METHODS This study compares the attitudes of 225 mental health professionals (125 psychiatrists and 100 psy...

This paper studies learning under multiple priors by characterizing the decision maker’s attitude toward information. She is incredulous if she integrates new information with respect to only those measures that minimizes the likelihood of the new information and credulous if she uses the maximum likelihood procedure to update her priors. Both updating rules expose her to dynamic inconsistency....