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Age and gender differences in health risk perception

Kim Young-Ho, Inkyoung Park, Soojin Kang

Central European Journal of Public Health · 2018 · 90 citations · 23 references

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Abstract

The present study suggests that further research is needed to identify realistic and unrealistic perception mechanism for a large number of people from different demographic and socioeconomic backgrounds.

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