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. 2008 Mar 1;99(2):142–144. [Article in French] doi: 10.1007/BF03405463

Comment l’analyse profane du risque peut-elle contribuer à l’avancement des savoirs en santé?

Michelle Proulx 115,✉, Sylvie Gravel 215, Laurence Monnais 315, Nicole Leduc 415
PMCID: PMC6975772  PMID: 18457291

Abstract

Since World War II, industrialized Western societies have been making significant public investments that have yielded spectacular improvements in the health status of their populations. Yet despite such considerable strides, it is nonetheless evident that lay peoples are expressing both more scepticism than in the past and greater mistrust toward medical science and biomedicine, even as they show increasing concern about health risks. In this article we intend to discuss some of the broader opportunities that the analysis of lay risk perceptions offers for appreciating the concerns of lay peoples about health-related issues as well as to provide new insights in population health.

Key words: Lay risk perceptions, risk theories, health disparities

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