Risk management in health care has developed and matured over the last many years in the United States, Britain, Europe, and Australia (Vincent, 1995, p. 2). At its origins, the focus was primarily on developing a framework for controlling litigation, a major worry for clinicians and hospitals. Studies of medical error in health care have brought a growing awareness of the scale of the problems...

1. A biomarker is any substance, structure or process that can be measured in an organism, related to a specific exposure or effect or which can influence the incidence of the effect. Biomarkers can provide valuable information to aid chemical risk assessment processes and are used as investigative tools in both animal and human studies which aim to evaluate carcinogenic hazards and risk. The o...

In 2006, a comprehensive wellness intervention, titled Wellness Works, was implemented in an incarcerated male population at a 200-bed facility in LaGrange, Kentucky. The purpose of this study was to determine health risk factors and benefits of program participation by analyzing data from a pre-/post-participation health risk assessment (HRA). In total, 448 inmates completed the pre- HRA and 1...

Until recently, regulatory authorities in developed countries used a “standard” model for analyzing health risks from food, developed to investigate other technological risks. We will begin by reviewing the characteristics and principal options of that model. Since the early 1980’s, a number of reported dysfunctions in the food chain have caused public opinion in several countries to become inc...

AS/NZS4360:2004 suggests that the risk assessment process should not be conducted or information gathered in isolation. This insular method of data collection may lead to inaccurate risk assessment, as stakeholders with vested interests may emphasise their own risks or game the risk assessment process. The study demonstrated how a consensual risk assessment approach may result in ...

In order for airports to manage the bird strike risk effectively, a risk assessment process needs to be carried out to identify the major hazards at the airport, the levels of risk that they produce, and the most cost effective means of reducing that risk. Despite the fact that bird controllers, managers and consultants make informal bird strike risk assessments throughout their working lives, ...

risk assessment provides the possibility of planning and management to prevent and reduce the risk of desertification. the present study is aimed to assess the hazard and risk of desertification and to develop management programs in the semi-arid western regions of golestan province in iran. desertification rate was obtained using the iranian model of desertification potential assessment. since...

background: with regard to the importance of preconception conditions in maternal health and fertility, preconception risk assessment makes treatment trends and pregnancy outcome more successful among infertile couples. this study has tried to investigate preconception risk assessment in infertile couples. materials and methods: this is a descriptive analytical survey conducted on 268 subjects,...