Risk lecture

Question 1

What can give us information about risks we face?

Answer 1

1. Health statistics
2. exercises like global burden of disease
3. experimental and
4. observational evidence about quantitative relationship between hazardous agents and adverse effects

Question 2

How do we define risk assessment?

Answer 2

A systematic process for describing and quantifying the risk associated with hazardous substances, processes, actions or events

Question 3

How do we define risk management?

Answer 3

Steps taken to alter/reduce the levels of rish to which an individual or population is subject

• managerial
• decision making
• active hazard control process

Question 4

Know the risk assessment and management framework

Answer 4

1. Research,
2. Assess the risk, identify hazarsd, dose response, exposure assessment, risk characterization
3. Develop regulatory options, evaluate public health, economic, social and political context

Question 5

What is risk perception?

Answer 5

1. scientific data, models and statistics that give us objective information about risks we face

Question 6

When it comes to how people perceive and react to risks what is most important?

Answer 6

Attributes of risk other than MAGNITUDE and severity