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Health Occupations > Medicine > Public Health > Epidemiologic Measurements > Risk Assessment
Environment and Public Health > Public Health > Epidemiologic Measurements > Risk Assessment
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Preferred term

Risk Assessment  

Type

  • Topical Descriptor

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Entry terms

  • Assessment, Health Risk
  • Assessment, Risk
  • Health Risk Assessment
  • Health Risk Assessments
  • Risk Assessment, Health

Note

  • usually NIM

Scope note

  • The qualitative or quantitative estimation of the likelihood of adverse effects that may result from exposure to specified health hazards or from the absence of beneficial influences. (Last, Dictionary of Epidemiology, 1988)

History note

  • 95

In other languages

  • riskinarviointi

    Finnish

  • riskien arviointi
  • riskienarviointi
  • riskin arviointi
  • Riskbedömning

    Swedish

  • Nytta-risk bedömning
  • Nytta-risk värdering
  • Risk-nytta värderin
  • Risk–nytta bedömning
  • Riskanalys
  • Riskvärdering

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http://www.yso.fi/onto/mesh/D018570

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