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Expanded operational concept of high risk groups and its role in standard setting.

Author(s) -

Edward J. Calabrese

Publication year - 1983

Publication title -

environmental health perspectives

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 2.257

H-Index - 282

eISSN - 1552-9924

pISSN - 0091-6765

DOI - 10.1289/ehp.8352257

Subject(s) - risk analysis (engineering) , population , risk assessment , process (computing) , environmental health , medicine , business , actuarial science , computer science , computer security , operating system

The role of the knowledge of high risk groups in the standard-setting process is examined. The overall conclusion is that many potential high risk segments of the population have not been studied adequately and that this deficiency in our knowledge markedly reduces the ability of decision makers to derive appropriate regulatory decisions by either ignoring the potential health effects or applying potentially excessive and expensive safety factors.

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