Health Risk & Society

Papers
(The median citation count of Health Risk & Society is 1. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)
ArticleCitations
‘The ones who die are lost and the survivors are what we have’: neoliberal governmentality and the governance of Covid-19 risk in social media posts in Turkey16
Democratising participatory health promotion: power and knowledge involved in engaging European adolescents in childhood obesity prevention14
Affect mediates culture’s effects on COVID-19 risk perceptions, behavioral intentions, and policy support among americans14
The role of culture in the (re)production of inequalities of acceptable risk exposure: a case study in Singapore12
Embracing uncertainty post-COVID-19 crisis: insights from young people11
‘It touches my heart more when I see this…’: visual communication in the realisation of risk - the case of type 2 diabetes in Stockholm9
Risk at the boundaries of social work: an editorial9
Risk and the importance of absent symptoms in constructions of the ‘cancer candidate’8
Exploring the HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) risk rituals: individualisation, uncertainty and social iatrogenesis7
Italian doctors’ understandings of work-related health and safety risks among women migrant home care workers7
Hospital transfers from care homes: conceptualising staff decision-making as a form of risk work5
Ultrasound scans as risk rituals in obstetric prenatal care in South Africa5
Conceptualising the experience of health risk: the case of everyday management of elevated cholesterol5
Risk and responsibility: lay perceptions of COVID-19 risk and the ‘ignorant imagined other’ in Indonesia5
Returning under the pandemic: COVID-19, home quarantine and emotion-risk politics4
People’s understanding of the COVID-19 pandemic: social representations of SARS-CoV-2 virus in Italy4
Risk, emotion and responsibility: an analysis of the storylines used by vaccine hesitant mothers3
Antimicrobial resistance in the risk society – a Danish study on how veterinarians and human medical doctors construct risk through blaming3
Nina Hallowell, 4th november 1957 – 28th June 2023: a risk researcher who explored the ways in which genetics touches human lives3
Food, bodies, health (risks): the biopolitics of organic materiality testing in the context of diet-associated health risk management practices3
In the name of health: affect theory and the role of public health risks in the creation of carceral spaces3
Making Sense of Risk: Social Work at the Boundary between Care and Control3
Reassessing social trust: gossip, self-policing, and Covid-19 risk communication in Norway3
Is my risk lower than yours? The role of compared risk, illness perceptions, and self-efficacy as determinants of perceived risk for COVID-193
Interrogating the deployment of ‘risk’ and ‘vulnerability’ in the context of early intervention initiatives to prevent child sexual exploitation3
Layering risk work amidst an emerging crisis: an ethnographic study on the governance of the COVID-19 pandemic in a university hospital in the Netherlands2
‘I’d best take out life insurance, then.’ Conceptualisations of risk and uncertainty in primary care consultations, and implications for shared decision-making2
‘Assessing my risk and that of my whānau is my right’: a longitudinal media analysis of risk and COVID-19 pandemic in New Zealand news media2
What is more dangerous – the disease, the vaccine or the government? Using governmentality theory to understand vaccine hesitancy among Israeli citizens in times of corona2
Factors in intention to get the COVID-19 vaccine change over time: Evidence from a two-wave U.S. study2
Use of ‘risk’ language in breastfeeding promotional materials: US state and local health departments2
The influence of artificial intelligence within health-related risk work: a critical framework and lines of empirical inquiry2
Experiences and management of uncertainty following treatment for prostate cancer2
“I can go teach for 30 minutes, and then I can tell” – The risk work of teachers in Danish secondary schools2
Occupation, risk culture, and risk perception: empirical evidence from China on COVID-192
The plurality and shifting of framing genetical modification risks on Chinese social media1
A trail leading home. Analysing the evolution of Mpox risk narratives and targets of blame in UK media1
Problematising older motherhood in Canada: ageism, ableism, and the risky maternal subject1
Recalibrating temporalities of risk: alcohol consumption and breast cancer risk for Australian women pre-midlife before and during COVID-191
Effects of religious orientation on COVID-19 preventive behavioural intention in Korean protestants: the moderating role of media exposure1
Culturally informed risk perceptions among young adult drinkers in Denmark, Estonia and Italy1
“You have to be street smart”: Street capital and the social organisation of risk among people who inject drugs in Norway1
The role of trust in government and risk perception in adherence to COVID-19 prevention measures: survey findings among young people in Luxembourg1
Covid-19, pandemic risk and inequality: emerging social science insights at 24 months1
Perceptions of alcohol health harm among midlife men in England: a qualitative interview study1
Organisational learning, or organised irresponsibility? Risk, opacity and lesson learning about mental health related deaths1
‘Do you think this is normal?’: risk, temporality, and the management of children’s food allergies through online support groups1
Plus ça change? The COVID-19 pandemic as continuity and change as reflected through risk theory1
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