{"id":40,"date":"2021-09-28T13:46:03","date_gmt":"2021-09-28T12:46:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/psyc.bbk.ac.uk\/pathlab\/?page_id=40"},"modified":"2021-11-05T12:23:17","modified_gmt":"2021-11-05T12:23:17","slug":"public-understanding-of-cancer-and-chronic-conditions","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/psyc.bbk.ac.uk\/pathlab\/themes\/public-understanding-of-cancer-and-chronic-conditions\/","title":{"rendered":"Public understanding of cancer and chronic conditions"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-group\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-flow wp-block-group-is-layout-flow\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignleft size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/psyc.bbk.ac.uk\/pathlab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2021\/11\/rombo.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-168\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A substantial proportion of cancers and other chronic non-communicable diseases can be influenced by modifiable health behaviours such as smoking, drinking and being overweight. Raising public awareness of such risk factors is a crucial first step towards encouraging behaviour change towards a better quality of life. Our research examines people\u2019s responses to risk factor information, such as what level of risk factor exposure they think is dangerous and how they respond to ambiguous risk information, where risk information may be incomplete or inconsistent.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\" type=\"1\"><li>Dwan, C. <strong>Miles A.<\/strong> The role of attitude and attitude ambivalence in acceptance of the cancer risk associated with red meat. Health Risk and Society (2018) 20: 147-162<\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\nhttps:\/\/doi.org\/10.1080\/13698575.2018.149426\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A substantial proportion of cancers and other chronic non-communicable diseases can be influenced by modifiable health behaviours such as smoking, drinking and being overweight. Raising public awareness of such risk factors is a crucial first step towards encouraging behaviour change towards a better quality of life. Our research examines people\u2019s responses to risk factor information, &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/psyc.bbk.ac.uk\/pathlab\/themes\/public-understanding-of-cancer-and-chronic-conditions\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Public understanding of cancer and chronic conditions&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":23,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","_uag_custom_page_level_css":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-40","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","entry"],"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":false,"thumbnail":false,"medium":false,"medium_large":false,"large":false,"1536x1536":false,"2048x2048":false,"post-thumbnail":false},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"admin","author_link":"https:\/\/psyc.bbk.ac.uk\/pathlab\/author\/admin\/"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"A substantial proportion of cancers and other chronic non-communicable diseases can be influenced by modifiable health behaviours such as smoking, drinking and being overweight. Raising public awareness of such risk factors is a crucial first step towards encouraging behaviour change towards a better quality of life. Our research examines people\u2019s responses to risk factor information,&hellip;","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/psyc.bbk.ac.uk\/pathlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/40","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/psyc.bbk.ac.uk\/pathlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/psyc.bbk.ac.uk\/pathlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psyc.bbk.ac.uk\/pathlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psyc.bbk.ac.uk\/pathlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/psyc.bbk.ac.uk\/pathlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/40\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":171,"href":"https:\/\/psyc.bbk.ac.uk\/pathlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/40\/revisions\/171"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psyc.bbk.ac.uk\/pathlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/23"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/psyc.bbk.ac.uk\/pathlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}