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Showing 1 to 4 of 4 for “"comparative risk assessment"”.
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Hungering for Survival: Trends in under-5 malnutrition and attributable disease burden
… Child malnutrition is a known risk factor for a myriad childhood diseases and causes of death, including intestinal infectious diseases, acute respiratory infections, measles, malaria, and protein-energy malnutrition. The nutrition literature lacks estimates of deaths and …
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Comparing the risks of diverse methods of electricity generation using the J-value framework
… J-value framework for assessing expenditure on risk mitigation, and then applies the method in a comparative risk assessment of UK electricity generating systems. The thesis is split into two volumes. The first volume contains part one, in which the J-value framework is introduced and developed. …
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Infectious Diseases Attributable to Non-optimal Temperature in Australia: Current Burden and Future Projections in a Changing Climate
Background: Climate change poses significant risks for emerging and re-emerging of infectious diseases. While studies have documented the association between non-optimal temperature and infectious disease transmission, evidence for the temperature-attributable burden of these diseases using …
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Environmental equity in southeast Louisiana: oil, people, policy, and the geography of industrial hazards
… for example, faces the greatest immediate risk from Saint Bernard Parish’s two large refineries and has the lowest proportion of minority residents within the study area. Conversely, Houma Indians residing on the wetland fringe stand at risk from the petroleum industry, both directly, …