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National Research Council, National Academy of Sciences (1983) Risk Assessment in the Federal Government Managing the Process, National Academy Press, Washington, D.C., pp. 1-191. 

Risk Assessment in the Federal Government Managing the Process," National Academy of Science, 1984 p 9. 

Figure 7.1 is adapted from the red book (actual title Risk Assessment in the Federal Government Managing the Process ). The committee offered this figure as a depiction of the broad framework under which the three major activities necessary to protect public health from the hazardous properties of environmental chemicals (very broadly defined) - research, risk assessment, and risk management -should be organized. The committee further emphasized that the three involve quite discrete sets of analytical undertakings, and serve different purposes, so that efforts should be made to reduce the chance of inappropriate influence of one upon another. Thus, for example, risk... 

National Research Council. 1983. Risk assessment in the federal government managing the process. Washington (DC) National Academy Press. 

Many academics favor emissions markets, but those markets play a small role in actual policy. Instead, governments manage pollution primarily with command-and-control standards for ambient chemical levels and emissions. 

Baddeley and James model of organizational politics was originally derived from their observations of local government managers. Many of these took the view that politics was the province of the elected councillors and that they, as employed officials, should confine their activities to the Impartial execution of policy determined by their political masters. 

US NRC (1983) Risk assessment in the federal government Managing the process. Committee on the Institutional Means for the Assessment of Risks to Public Health, Commission on Life Sciences. Washington, DC, US National Research Council, National Academy Press. 

In 1983, the National Research Council of the (US) National Academy of Sciences published a report titled Risk Assessment in the Federal Government Managing the Process this work has had a marked influence on the risk assessment process used by regulatory agencies worldwide. The risk assessment process, in this report, consists of four components hazard identification, dose-response assessment, exposure assessment, and risk characterization. 

Risk characterization is the final step of the risk assessment process as laid out in the classic National Research Council report Risk Assessment in the Federal Government Managing the Process. In this step, the risk from a specific agent (chemical or physical) or group of agents in a particular setting is evaluated. This evaluation is based on a comparison of the results of the dose-response assessment for these agents with the outcome of the exposure... 

This latter level of risk management is discussed in some detail in the 1983 National Academy of Sciences (NAS)/National Research Council (NRC) report on risk assessment Risk Assessment in the Federal Government Managing the Process - the so-called Red Book). In that report, NAS advocated a clear conceptual distinction between risk assessment and risk management, since this distinction would help prevent, for example, the tailoring of risk... 

Performance measures, or indicators, are frequently used to measure and compare pharmaceutical outcomes. Performance measures are used to monitor and evaluate important governance, management, clinical, and support functions that affect patient outcomes.A performance measure can be used in one of three ways to warn of potential quality problems, to measure the result of process improvement, and to monitor continuing performance.They are typically expressed as ratios. 

Dennis J. Paustenbach s A Survey of Health Risk Assessment , Chapter 1 of The Risk Assessment of Environment Hazards (op. cit.) is a good place to start because it provides a reasonably current, bird s-eye view of the whole risk assessment scene. The 1983 report of the National Research Council/National Academy of Sciences, Risk Assessment in the Federal Government Managing the Process (National Academy Press, Washington, D.C.) is essential reading for anyone attempting to grasp the fundamental science and policy issues in risk assessment. 

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