Health risks

Activities

1. Prevention of Cancer

The main activity is discussion in small groups, to evaluate information on the best way of reducing cancer deaths and to reach decisions on priorities.

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2. Xeno day - risk

  (estimated time: 100 minutes)

This activity is adapted from the session run by Robert Doubleday at the
SPU Xenotransplantation conference Feb 2002. The separate sections could be
run as successful short activites in their own right. The main activity is
a role play of a government committee advising the Secretary of State for
Health on applications to hold clinical trials of xenotransplantation.

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3. Argument - Smoking and lung cancer

  (estimated time: 15 minutes)

This activity introduces the basic structure of an argument and allows criticism of some simple arguments relating the link between smoking and lung cancer.

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4. Risk - your personal choices

This is a short introductory activity on risk to illustrate the factors that affect our risk decisions.

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5. Ways of expressing risk

This set of calculations illustrates different ways of expressing the same risk and points out the difference between absolute risk and relative risk.

It could be used in two parts or the whole done as a revision exercise at the end of the topic. The difference between absolute and relative risk is an important one in the critical interpretation of media reports.

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