Risk assessment is a highly important activity of numerous governmental health and regulatory bodies. It is on the accuracy of quantitative and qualitative measurement that the decisions of government policymakers depend. Those decisions, of course, are intended to manage risks. That management frequently involves regulations over a wide range of individual and environmental exposures. Bailar and his colleagues examine the methodological challenges faced by federal agencies involved in risk assessment and the sometimes controversial implications and consequences of methodological considerations. The authors query how, given a choice of methods, one is chosen; the role that method-related issues and problems may have in the acceptance of risk assessment findings; and what impact the controversies regarding methods have on the role of risk assessment in overall risk management. Ten hazards, as assessed by a range of federal agencies with a variety of assessment methods, give topicality and specificity to the analysis. Among the risks addressed are ethylene dibromide, formaldehyde, passive smoking, and the use of mammography for breast cancer screening. The authors conclude with a setting of priorities for risk assessment because risks to human health clearly outstrip resources available for accurate assessment.
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“. . . This book is tremendous resource for all quality/risk management, administrative, and medical staff in health care facilities. This book needs to be in health care professional libraries, since risk assessment is here to stay and a necessity for humanity.”–The Pennsylvania Nurse
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JOHN C. BAILAR is a professor in the Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics at McGill University.
JACK NEEDLEMAN is currently a fellow at the Malcolm Wiener Center for Social Policy, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University,
BARBARA L. BERNEY, a Pew health policy fellow, is a project director in the Department of Environmental Health, School of Public Health, Boston University.
J. MICHAEL McGINNIS is assistant surgeon general and director of the Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion in the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
JACK NEEDLEMAN is currently a fellow at the Malcolm Wiener Center for Social Policy, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University,
BARBARA L. BERNEY, a Pew health policy fellow, is a project director in the Department of Environmental Health, School of Public Health, Boston University.
J. MICHAEL McGINNIS is assistant surgeon general and director of the Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion in the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
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