title: Advances in risk assessment and communication.
abstract: Risk analysis continues to evolve. There is increasing depth and breadth to each component of the four-step risk-assessment paradigm of hazard identification, dose-response analysis, exposure assessment, and risk characterization. Basic conceptual approaches to understanding how people perceive risk are being tested against a growing body of empirical observations, many involving stakeholders. Emerging ideas such as the precautionary principle have provided challenges that have led to a rethinking of the role of risk assessment in environmental health. Newer problems, such as intergenerational issues posed by long-lasting radiation pollution, environmental justice, and the assessment and communication of risks related to terrorism, have spurred innovative approaches to risk analysis.
authors.affiliation: Graduate School of Public Health, Office of the Dean, University of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15261, USA. bdgold@pitt.edu
authors.forename: Bernard D
authors.initials: BD
authors.lastname: Goldstein
mesh_terms: D001294:Attitude to Health; D015415:Biomarkers / Q000032:analysis; D015984:Causality; D003043:Cocarcinogenesis; D003142:Communication; D004305:Dose-Response Relationship, Drug; D004781:Environmental Exposure / Q000009:adverse effects / Q000032:analysis; D004782:Environmental Health; D004784:Environmental Monitoring / Q000379:methods* / Q000592:standards; D005523:Food Supply / Q000592:standards; D023281:Genomics; D007722:Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice; D006801:Humans; D033181:Information Dissemination / Q000379:methods*; D008967:Molecular Biology / Q000639:trends; D019055:No-Observed-Adverse-Effect Level; D011634:Public Health; D021281:Quantitative Structure-Activity Relationship; D018570:Risk Assessment / Q000458:organization & administration*; D017751:Safety Management / Q000458:organization & administration; D023481:Terrorism; D018675:Toxicity Tests / Q000379:methods* / Q000592:standards; D014481:United States; D014484:United States Environmental Protection Agency; D014881:Water Supply / Q000592:standards
chemical_list: D015415:Biomarkers