aims: the occurrence of fire in residential buildings , commercial complexes and large and small industries cause physical, environmental and financial damages to many different communities. fire safety in hospitals is sensitive and it is believed that the society takes the responsibility to care sick people . the goal of this study was to use fire risk assessment method for engineering (frame)...

Environmental risk assessment is an essential element in any decision-making process in order to minimize the effects of human activities on the environment. Unfortunately, often environmental data tends to be vague and imprecise, so uncertainty is associated with any study related with these kind of data. Essentially, uncertainty in risk assessment may have two origins – randomness and incompl...

With reference to mold investigations, the three primary tasks of the Indoor Environmental Professional (IEP) may be described as encompassing an exposure assessment, a risk assessment, and risk management. The focus of the inspection may be on determining if the structure is contaminated [exposure assessment], if the occupants are potentially at risk of adverse health effects [risk assessment]...

One of the primary purposes for preparing an environmental assessment (EA) is to determine whether or not a proposed action will have a significant impact on the human environment and therefore require the preparation of an environmental impact statement (EIS). As defined in 40 CFR 1508.13, a finding of no significant impact (FONSI) is a document that briefly presents the reasons why a federal ...

A Comprehensive Health Technology Assessment Framework is presented as a conceptual tool for decision-making about health technologies, including information technologies. The aim of the model is to provide an empirical, evidence-based foundation for health technology decisions. The major framework dimensions are (1) population at risk, (2) population impact, (3) economic concerns, (4) social c...

The objective of this study was to assess whether living in proximity to a roofing fiber cement factory in southern Thailand was associated with physical, mental, social, and spiritual health domains measured in a self-reported health risk assessment (HRA) questionnaire. A cross-sectional study was conducted among community members divided into two groups: near population (living within 0-2km o...

background: euroscore is a simple and rigorous risk stratification model and is, thus, commonly used in predicting the early and late outcomes of cardiac surgery across the world. we aimed to assess the discriminative power of the euroscore model to predict postoperative morbidity and total prolonged length of stay in hospital (los) and intensive care unit (icu) stay in an iranian group of card...

background: the bibliometric methods have been used in many disciplines of sciences to study the scientific production and research trends. in this study, they were used to investigate research trends related to the risk assessment of cryptosporid­ium pathogen in water field. methods : data were obtained on the scopus database from 1993 to 2013. re­search tendency was investigated by analyzing ...