There is emerging interest in the use of discrete choice experiments as a means of quantifying the perceived balance between benefits and risks (quantitative benefit-risk assessment) of new healthcare interventions, such as medicines, under assessment by regulatory agencies. For stated preference data on benefit-risk assessment to be used in regulatory decision making, the methods to generate t...

The Central and Eastern European Society of Technology Assessment in Health Care was founded in Krakow, Poland in 2003. On October 8th and 9th, the 7th symposium took place titled 'HTA for Crisis'. This meeting was attended by over 250 decision makers, evidence-based specialists, healthcare managers, commercial company personnel and experts. The symposium was principally divided into four main ...

The objective of this paper is to summarize the latest techniques, applications, methodologies, use of different software, and development of codes, in the field of Living Probabilistic Safety Assessment (LPSA) and Risk Monitoring (RM). The paper consists of three parts, in first part definitions, history, aims, uses of LPSA, and a new detailed model for LPSA have been explain. In second part b...

Philosophical conceptions of the relationship between risk and trust may be divided into three main families. The first conception, taking its cue from Hobbes, sees trust as a kind of risk assessment involving the expected behavior of another person, for the sake of achieving the likely benefits of cooperation. The second conception of trust sees it as an alternative to calculative risk assessm...

Health risk assessments provide an opportunity to emphasise health promotion and disease prevention for individuals and populations at large. A key component of health risk assessments is the detailed collection of family health history information. This information is helpful in determining risk both for common chronic conditions and more rare diseases as well. While the concept of health risk...

When learners have to make sense of risky situations, they can use mathematical models and representations which facilitate successful risk assessment. Based on theoretical considerations on the benefits of specific models and specific representations in such contexts, we present empirical findings of a study which examined whether students use such models and representations in their risk asse...

Advances in water and wastewater treatment in the twentieth century have transformed public health worldwide. However, as a number of World Health Organization and American Academy of Microbiology expert reports have clearly shown, we are still a long way from guaranteeing safe drinking water even in the most developed nations. This chapter attempts to identify major knowledge gaps and summariz...

The National Ecosystem Assessment (2011) found that observing nature and participating in physical activity in green spaces plays an important role in positively influencing human health and well-being. Exercise in green places is associated with positive health outcomes, which exceed those experienced from exercising in environments lacking nature (i.e. indoors). If 1% of the sedentary populat...