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Place in rank order which you think are the most significant threats to health at the current time, where 1 is the most significant and 14 the least significant.

Obesity

Poverty

Climate change

Extreme weather (flash flooding, wildfires)

HIV

Malaria

Unequal societies

Mental illness

Social policy changes – austerity and health-care expenditure cuts

New infectious diseases

Road traffic collisions

Loneliness/social isolation

Depression

Crime

What kind of things influenced your ranking order and decision-making?

You should have seen from the above learning task that deciding what are the most important threats to health is not easy and there are a numbers of factors that can and do influence our decisions. You may have decided to rank topics higher up the scale that affected most people, or based your decisions upon the perceived seriousness or importance of the threats from the list. You could have been influenced by what you read and see in the media on a daily basis when making your decision. A number of factors that can influence both our perceptions and conceptualization of contemporary health threats are outlined in the next section.