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Risk Assessment

"Risk Assessment" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus, MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure, which enables searching at various levels of specificity.

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The qualitative or quantitative estimation of the likelihood of adverse effects that may result from exposure to specified health hazards or from the absence of beneficial influences. (Last, Dictionary of Epidemiology, 1988)


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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Risk Assessment" by people in this website by year, and whether "Risk Assessment" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
Bar chart showing 1735 publications over 31 distinct years, with a maximum of 125 publications in 2019
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