Risk Assessment in Setting National Priorities: Meeting Proceedings (Advances in Risk Analysis, Band 7) - Hardcover

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The theme of the 1987 Annual Meeting of the Society for Risk Analysis (Nov. 1987, Houston, TX), from which these essays were drawn, was "Setting National Priorities". The theme reflects a concern with the conventional practice of isolating and individualizing risks, thereby ignoring the holistic aspects of risk and the need for an integrated approach to risk analysis and management. The volume includes both theoretical arguments and empirical studies in such areas as radiation, food, water, air quality, medicine, chemicals, and both natural and man-made catastrophes. An example of the concerns: We as a society may spend billions to reduce a hypothetical risk to a small population, but be unwilling to spend minimal amounts for primary health care for pregnant women, which could reduce infant mortality by as much as 30-50% in some urban areas. The state of the discipline in risk analysis. With many tables and graphs. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.

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