title: Uncertainty, risk, and the role of epidemiology in public policy development.
abstract: Risk taking is a concommitant of life--inescapable beyond the inert, sessile state. Accordingly, risk assessment is implicit for almost all human activities, from daily actions, such as crossing a trafficked street to esoteric ones such as landing on the moon.
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D003033:Coal Tar / Q000009:adverse effects; D004781:Environmental Exposure; D004813:Epidemiology; D006291:Health Policy; D006801:Humans; D009369:Neoplasms / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000209:etiology / Q000401:mortality; D011050:Policy Making; D011336:Probability; D012306:Risk
chemical_list: D003033:Coal Tar