Essays about: "Lise-Lotte Verhoef"

Found 1 essay containing the words Lise-Lotte Verhoef.

  1. 1. “It won’t happen to me” VS “It could have been me” - Changes in health behavior initiated by a negative health shock to a peer

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Ekonomisk-historiska institutionen

    Author : Lise-Lotte Verhoef; [2017]
    Keywords : health behavior; peer effects; smoking; diet; exercise; Social Sciences; Business and Economics; Medicine and Health Sciences;

    Abstract : Despite being aware of the health risks associated with making “bad” health decisions, we seem to deny our personal vulnerability to the harmful effects of poor health behavior. Aiming to explore whether the harmful effects associated with poor health behavior are personalized once our peers suffer from them, reflected by improved health behavior and referred to as “peer effects”, this study uses individual-level U. READ MORE