Insight into the health risk awareness levels of e-waste workers is important as it may offer opportunities for better e-waste recycling management strategies to reduce the health effects of informal e-waste recycling. Therefore, this study assessed the knowledge, attitude, and practices associated with occupational health risk awareness of e-waste workers compared with a control group (butcher...

Although the financial services industry is a large buyer of outsourcing services, it still lags behind other industries especially regarding business process outsourcing (BPO). This research in progress asks why. The main hypothesis is that subjectively perceived risk is decisive for senior management's attitude towards BPO. A causal model will be developed, derived from Perceived Risk Theory ...

OBJECTIVE The objective of the study was to assess public knowledge and attitudes regarding antibiotic utilization in Putrajaya, Malaysia. METHODS A self-administered questionnaire survey was conducted among public attending a local hospital. The four-part questionnaire collected responses on demographic characteristics, recent use of antibiotics, knowledge and attitude statements. Cronbach's...

BACKGROUND Within the standard gamble approach to the elicitation of health preferences, no previous studies compared probability equivalent (PE) and certainty equivalent (CE) techniques OBJECTIVE This study aimed to explore the differences between CE and PE techniques when payoffs are expressed in terms of life-years or quality of life. METHODS Individuals were interviewed through both CE ...

AIM To assess the knowledge, attitude and practices of gynecologists regarding the prevention of oral diseases in Riyadh city, Saudi Arabia. METHODS A structured, self administered, close-ended questionnaire was distributed among the randomly chosen sample of 200 gynecologists and their responses were recorded and analyzed. RESULTS Nearly half of the respondents knew all the main risk facto...

In the framework of expected utility theory, risk attitudes are entirely captured by the curvature of the utility function. In cumulative prospect theory (CPT) risk attitudes have an additional dimension: the weighting of probabilities. With this modification, one question arises naturally: since both utility and probability weighting determine the attitude towards risk, what is the relation be...