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The thesis investigates the influence of distance of healthcare facilities on risk behavior of inhabitants and subsequent injury occurrences. Simultaneously, it is focused on the role of affect in decision-making process and risk prediction. An increased number of injuries occurred near hospitals indicates the existence of offsetting behavior expressed by an increased rate of hazardous activities in the area in question and offsetting behavior is caused by a feeling of easily accessible healthcare. Data gathered via questionnaire survey uncovered an increased number of injuries in the areas closest to a hospital and also an increased rate of sports activities which itself as the most risky activity because the number of injuries occurred during sports amount to more than a half of all surveyed injuries. People living near a hospital also experience higher risk of an injury occurrence. This fact supports assumptive existence of offsetting behavior. A feeling of safety based on an accessible healthcare decreases predicted costs of risk activities and these costs can have a form of an injury. There are other factors discussed in the thesis that may affect against the hypothesis of existence of offsetting behavior, which can be adopted by people living close to a hospital. For example, we could observe less risky behavior of people living near a hospital due to the impact of availability heuristic, which makes the consequences of injuries more easily imaginable.