Evaluating nose and throat cancer risk : Number sense and taboos on ill-health

• Main Authors: Ting, Su Hie, Jerome, Collin, Podin, Yuwana, Sharifah Sophia, Wan Ahmad
• Format: Proceeding
• Language: English
• Published: 2018
• Subjects: P Philology. Linguistics
• Online Access: http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/22965/1/zICSED2018_Ting_etal_paper.doc; http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/22965/
• Institution: Universiti Malaysia Sarawak

The threat posed by a disease depends on perceptions of the severity of the disease and an individual’s perceptions of their risk or susceptibility of getting the disease. Studies have indicated that the public has difficulty understanding risk assessment in numerical form. This study examined the p...