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Health and finance: exploring the parallels between health care delivery and professional financial planning

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This article compares the role of risk and uncertainty discourse across two rather disparate areas of expertise: personal financial planning and health care delivery. On the basis of 42 semi-structured interviews and eight recorded meetings between planners and their clients, as well as a comprehensive review of extant health literature, it is argued that three points of convergence -- the discursive management of uncertainty, the temporalization of risk, and the use of images -- offer a modicum of certainty which functions ultimately to legitimize expertise and facilitate courses of remedial action while simultaneously assuaging laypeople's existential anxieties. The article concludes with a number of reflections on the importance of agency and trust.

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  • Patrick Parnaby, 2011. "Health and finance: exploring the parallels between health care delivery and professional financial planning," Journal of Risk Research, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 14(10), pages 1191-1205, November.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:jriskr:v:14:y:2011:i:10:p:1191-1205
    DOI: 10.1080/13669877.2011.587887
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    1. Angela Woosley & Sharon M. Danes & Marlene Stum, 2017. "Utilizing a Family Decision-Making Lens to Examine Adults’ End-of-Life Planning Actions," Journal of Family and Economic Issues, Springer, vol. 38(1), pages 33-44, March.

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