Applying decision-making approaches to health risk-taking behaviors: Progress and remaining challenges

DOI10.1006/JMPS.1999.1258MaRDI QIDQ1304535zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Y. H. Cho, L. Robin Keller, M. Lynne Cooper

Publication date 20 August 2000

Published in Journal of Mathematical Psychology (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://semanticscholar.org/paper/53bee94302b4e05944ff1d7c8c2e7e0a73813226

zbMATH Keywords

behavior of the medical domaindecision theory models

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Research exposition (monographs, survey articles) pertaining to operations research and mathematical programming (90-02) Management decision making, including multiple objectives (90B50) Mathematical psychology (91E99)

Review text

This paper is a critical survey of the application of basic decision theory models to actual risk taking behavior in the medical domain. The authors main point is that the basic decision theory models ignore context which can be very important in actual applications.

Recommendations

• A theory of medical decision making under uncertainty
• Decision-making in the presence of risk
• Medical decision making. A health economic primer
• Prospect Theory: An Analysis of Decision under Risk
• An analysis of the sensitivity and stability of patients' preferences can lead to more appropriate medical decisions

Cites work

• Comparison of Weighting Judgments in Multiattribute Utility Measurement
• Disappointment and Dynamic Consistency in Choice under Uncertainty
• scientific article; zbMATH DE number 3769296 (Why is no real title available?)
• scientific article; zbMATH DE number 45532 (Why is no real title available?)
• scientific article; zbMATH DE number 47781 (Why is no real title available?)
• scientific article; zbMATH DE number 1206322 (Why is no real title available?)
• The Founding of INFORMS: A Decision Analysis Perspective

Cited in

(4)

• Diabetic risk taking: The role of information, education and medication
• Health, Risky Behaviour and the Value of Medical Innovation for Infectious Disease
• Understanding doctor decision making: the case of depression treatment
• Cognitive mechanisms underlying risky decision-making in chronic cannabis users

This page was built for publication: Applying decision-making approaches to health risk-taking behaviors: Progress and remaining challenges

Report a bug (only for logged in users!)Click here to report a bug for this page (MaRDI item Q1304535)