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Comparing GPs’ risk attitudes for their own health and for their patients’ : a troubling discrepancy?

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  • Antoine Nebout

    (ALISS - Alimentation et sciences sociales - INRAE - Institut National de Recherche pour l’Agriculture, l’Alimentation et l’Environnement)

  • Marie Cavillon

    (DREES - Direction de la recherche, des études, de l'évaluation et des statistiques (Ministère des Affaires sociales, de la Santé et des Droits des femmes))

  • Bruno Ventelou

    (AMSE - Aix-Marseille Sciences Economiques - EHESS - École des hautes études en sciences sociales - AMU - Aix Marseille Université - ECM - École Centrale de Marseille - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique)

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In this paper, we report the results of risk attitudes elicitation of a French general practitioners national representative sample (N=1568).

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  • Antoine Nebout & Marie Cavillon & Bruno Ventelou, 2018. "Comparing GPs’ risk attitudes for their own health and for their patients’ : a troubling discrepancy?," Post-Print hal-02084925, HAL.
    • Handle: RePEc:hal:journl:hal-02084925
    DOI: 10.1186/s12913-018-3044-7
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