Adolescent risk and vulnerability
Subtitle: concepts and measurement
By: Baruch Fischhoff, Elena O. Nightingale, Joah G. Iannotta, editors
Contributors: Fischhoff, Baruch, 1946-; Nightingale, Elena O; Iannotta, Joah G
Publisher: National Academy Press
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Washington
Language: eng
Number of pages: 152
Subjects: Risk-taking (Psychology) in adolescence -- United States -- Congresses; Teenagers -- United States -- Social conditions -- Congresses; Teenagers -- Health risk assessment -- United States -- Congresses; Youth -- Government policy -- United States -- Congresses
Genres: Congresses
Notes: Includes bibliographical references
Table of contents: title: 1. Introduction: Adolescent risk and vulnerability: approaches to setting priorities to reduce their burden; title: 2. Perceptions of risk and vulnerability / Baruch Fischhoff and Elena O. Nightingale; title: 3. Vulnerability, risk, and protection / Susan G. Millstein and Bonnie L. Halpern-Felsher; title: 4. Modeling the payoffs of interventions to reduce adolescent vulnerability / Robert William Blum, Clea McNeely, and James Nonnemaker; title: 5. Adolescent vulnerability: measurement and priority setting / Martha R. Burt, Janine M. Zweig, and John Roman