Risk assessment is the systematic process of identifying hazards, characterizing exposure, and estimating the probability and severity of adverse outcomes in order to inform decisions about protection and mitigation. In environmental health and toxicology it follows a structured framework—hazard identification, dose…
Risk assessment is the systematic process of identifying hazards, characterizing exposure, and estimating the probability and severity of adverse outcomes in order to inform decisions about protection and mitigation. In environmental health and toxicology it follows a structured framework—hazard identification, dose-response assessment, exposure assessment, and risk characterization—and is applied to chemical, physical, microbiological, and clinical hazards. The studies collected here apply risk-assessment principles across diverse exposures: environmental and health risk assessment of particulate matter near dusty sports fields, minimal risk level derivation for cadmium across acute and intermediate durations, and health risk from hydrogen sulphide around dumpsites. Microbiological and food-safety risk appears in work on quantitative microbiological risk assessment as a process-improvement tool, while physical and occupational hazards are represented by wind-turbine public-safety risk and metabolomic approaches to assessing environmental exposure. Clinical risk stratification features in mortality-risk scoring for COVID-19 pneumonia and in studies of hypercoagulability in acute leukemia, and population health risk is addressed through body-composition and nutritional-status analysis, vitamin D and fall risk in older adults, and healthcare-worker knowledge of preventive prophylaxis. Methods span exposure modeling, dose-response derivation, predictive scoring, and biomonitoring. This topic assembles peer-reviewed research on the assessment of environmental, microbiological, occupational, and clinical risks and the quantitative tools used to characterize and manage them.
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