Thinking about the role of modeling in the next generation of risk assessments

Date de publication : Nov 04, 2016 11:20:16 AM

A Framework for the Next Generation of Risk Science (http://ehp.niehs.nih.gov/1307260/).

Protecting and enhancing population health is of concern to everyone. By almost any standard, people worldwide are living longer and healthier than ever before. Much of this success can be attributed to effective public health practices that have evolved over the last two centuries, and to the adoption of healthier lifestyles. More recently, powerful techniques in risk science—a term used here to encompass both the scientific enterprise of risk assessment and, in analogy to management science, risk management actions taken to reduce risk—have been used to address important population health risk issues. [...]