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Article: Risk Assessment, Risk Management
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- Encyclopedia of Public Health
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RISK ASSESSMENT, RISK MANAGEMENT
During the last two decades of the twentieth century, risk science evolved into an important academic and applied discipline. The U.S. National Research Council issued a pioneering report in 1983, titled
Risk Assessment in the Federal Government: Managing the Process
. This report represented the first formalized effort to describe the health-risk assessment and management process in a structured way. It consolidated earlier efforts at developing a comprehensive framework, and it has been widely endorsed throughout the world.
The framework consists of three components: research, risk assessment, and risk management. Research refers to the collection, ...