Wilson, A.M., Mussio, I. orcid.org/0000-0003-3724-9865, Verhougstraete, M.P. et al. (4 more authors) (2025) A risk-risk tradeoff approach for incorporating the public’s risk perceptions into quantitative microbial risk assessment. Journal of Occupational and Environmental Hygiene. ISSN 1545-9624
Abstract
In public health, risk experts often define acceptable risk targets without community input. We developed a novel method for applying behavioral microeconomics to integrate individuals’ risk preferences into risk assessment. To demonstrate this methodology, we explored a risk-risk tradeoff case scenario: increased asthma risk from increased cleaning and disinfection (C&D) and increased infection risk from decreased C&D for healthcare staff. Utilizing a risk-risk tradeoff (RRTO) framework, two datasets were informed with RRTO survey data describing the risks individuals would accept for one outcome to offset risk in another (i.e., “risk target”). A quantitative microbial risk assessment (QMRA) was deployed to output “critical concentrations,” viral concentrations on surfaces that yield risk targets for a single contaminated surface touch and a work shift. Critical concentrations were over four orders of magnitude larger for single-touch scenarios. Critical concentrations across risk target datasets were similar. Using the RRTO framework to inform QMRA advances the incorporation of individuals’ risk preferences in risk analyses outside economics.
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2024 The Author(s). Published with license by Taylor & Francis Group, LLC. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/), which permits non-commercial re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, and is not altered, transformed, or built upon in any way. The terms on which this article has been published allow the posting of the Accepted Manuscript in a repository by the author(s) or with their consent. |
Keywords: | Asthma; behavioral economic; disinfection; occupational health |
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Institution: | The University of Leeds |
Academic Units: | The University of Leeds > Faculty of Business (Leeds) > Economics Division (LUBS) (Leeds) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Publications |
Date Deposited: | 11 Feb 2025 10:48 |
Last Modified: | 11 Feb 2025 10:48 |
Status: | Published online |
Publisher: | Taylor & Francis |
Identification Number: | 10.1080/15459624.2024.2423756 |
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Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:223136 |