Table of Contents: Adolescent risk and vulnerability :

Other Authors:	Nightingale, Elena O.
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Washington : National Academy Press, ©2001.
Subjects:	Risk-taking (Psychology) in adolescence > United States Teenagers > Social conditions > United States Teenagers > Health risk assessment > United States Youth > Government policy > United States Psychology, Adolescent. Adolescent Behavior. Decision Making. POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Social Services & Welfare. POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Social Security. Risk-taking (Psychology) in adolescence. Teenagers > Health risk assessment. Teenagers > Social conditions. Youth > Government policy. United States.
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Table of Contents:

1. Introduction: Adolescent risk and vulnerability: approaches to setting priorities to reduce their burden
2. Perceptions of risk and vulnerability / Baruch Fischhoff and Elena O. Nightingale
3. Vulnerability, risk, and protection / Susan G. Millstein and Bonnie L. Halpern-Felsher
4. Modeling the payoffs of interventions to reduce adolescent vulnerability / Robert William Blum, Clea McNeely, and James Nonnemaker
5. Adolescent vulnerability: measurement and priority setting / Martha R. Burt, Janine M. Zweig, and John Roman.