Modelers and Public Health Officials Meet in Vermont to Close a Persistent Communication Gap
A three-day workshop in Essex, Vermont, brought together about 30 disease modelers and public health practitioners to build shared vocabulary, ...
Tag: risk perception
Future Nurses Misjudge Substance Use Risks, Study of 320 Students Finds
A cross-sectional study of 320 Indian nursing students found that all participants held at least moderate misinterpretations of substance use, ...
How Mixing Surveys, Maps and Conversations Could Transform Disaster Risk Assessment on Tenerife
Researchers argue that combining models, fieldwork, surveys and interviews on Tenerife offers a blueprint for assessing multi-hazard climate risk at ...
Shocks, Not Habits: How Crises Reshape Water Technology Adoption in Rural India
A study of 54 rural Indian communities shows that external shocks such as policy shifts and natural hazards significantly alter ...
Feeling at Risk Is Not Enough: What Really Drives Flood Preparedness in a Fast-Growing African City
A study of 249 flood-prone households in Butembo, DR Congo, finds that direct experience, media exposure and access to resources ...
Five Roadblocks Keeping Disaster Science From Tackling Cascading Climate and Health Risks
An interdisciplinary team identifies five interlocking scientific, behavioural, modelling, governance and knowledge-exchange barriers that must be overcome to manage cascading ...
Awareness Is Not Action: Madagascar Study Reveals Why the Most Exposed Farmers Prepare the Least
A survey of 245 farming households in cyclone-exposed and drought-prone Madagascar finds that climate risk awareness and physical exposure do ...
Beijing’s First Red Haze Alerts Sharpened How Residents Judge Air Pollution
A survey experiment around Beijing's first red haze alerts in December 2015 shows that high-severity warnings significantly reduced how much ...
Acknowledging Distrust and Liberty Made Vaccine Messages Land, Study Shows
Oregon State University researchers found that COVID-19 vaccination messages acknowledging distrust of government or affirming personal liberty significantly increased vaccination ...
Hailstorms Now Outrank Floods as the Top Hazard in Northeastern Bangladesh
A new community-based risk assessment in Sylhet finds that hailstorms have overtaken floods and cyclones as the most significant perceived ...
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Mothers who receive childcare support from maternal grandparents show more parental warmth, finds NTU Singapore study
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University of Seville Breaks 120-Year-Old Mystery, Revises a Key Einstein Concept
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Bee body mass, pathogens and local climate influence heat tolerance
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Researchers record first-ever images and data of a shark experiencing a boat strike
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Groundbreaking Clinical Trial Reveals Lubiprostone Enhances Kidney Function
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