{"id":626,"date":"2014-04-01T15:36:36","date_gmt":"2014-04-01T15:36:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/econ\/?p=626"},"modified":"2014-04-01T15:40:34","modified_gmt":"2014-04-01T15:40:34","slug":"risk-and-health","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/econ\/2014\/04\/01\/risk-and-health\/","title":{"rendered":"Risk and Health"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>HT to\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ritholtz.com\/blog\/2014\/03\/how-we-understand-risk-what-kills-us\/\">Barry Ritholtz<\/a>\u00a0for sharing this video on how we (often fail to) understand risk in the context of health care policy. It includes a great example of why requiring child seats on planes is inefficient, and what diseases are real killers in the United States. (Approx. 6 min.)<\/p>\n<p><object type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"530\" height=\"62\" data=\"http:\/\/getembedplus.com\/embedplus.swf\" id=\"ep79122\"><param value=\"http:\/\/getembedplus.com\/embedplus.swf\" name=\"movie\" \/><param value=\"high\" name=\"quality\" \/><param value=\"transparent\" name=\"wmode\" \/><param value=\"always\" name=\"allowscriptaccess\" \/><param value=\"true\" name=\"allowFullScreen\" \/><param name=\"flashvars\" value=\"ytid=zoW8PSGPzAo&#038;height=30&#038;width=530&#038;hd=1&#038;react=0&#038;sweetspot=0&#038;&amp;rs=w\" \/><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"cantembedplus\" title=\"YouTube video player\" width=\"530\" height=\"30\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/zoW8PSGPzAo?fs=1&#038;vq=720&#038;\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HT to\u00a0Barry Ritholtz\u00a0for sharing this video on how we (often fail to) understand risk in the context of health care policy. It includes a great example of why requiring child seats on planes is inefficient, and what diseases are real killers in the United States. (Approx. 6 min.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":368,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[141,143,63,142],"class_list":["post-626","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","tag-health","tag-policy","tag-probability","tag-risk"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/econ\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/626","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/econ\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/econ\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/econ\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/368"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/econ\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=626"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/econ\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/626\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":632,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/econ\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/626\/revisions\/632"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/econ\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/econ\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/econ\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}