Risk, per Prehospital and Disaster Medicine

the objective (mathematical) or subjective (inductive) probability that the hazard will become an event. Factors (risk factors) can be identified that modify this probability. Such risk factors are constituted by personal behaviors, life-styles, c

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Notes:

Medical risks are familiar to each of us and are defined here as they apply to persons not yet smitten by disease or health issues. This is increasingly a topic as we develop better understanding of human conditions, environmental and genetic, which pre