Health Risk Assessment and Management of Asbestos Exposure to the Public in Japan

2021 ◽  
pp. 75-82
Author(s):  
Naomi Hisanaga ◽  
Kiyoshi Sakai ◽  
Eiji Shibata
Author(s):  
Graham A. Colditz ◽  
Hank Dart

Abstract The Your Disease Risk tool (yourdiseaserisk.wustl.edu) went live to the public in January 2000 and was one of the first personalized health risk assessment sites on the Internet. Its launch marked the culmination of years of work by a large, multi-disciplinary university team whose primary goal was to translate the science on cancer prevention into accurate, engaging, and useful messages for the public. Today, 20 years on, Your Disease Risk has expanded from its initial four cancers to include 18 different tools designed for today’s users. This commentary reviews important moments and lessons learned in the first two decades of Your Disease Risk.


2012 ◽  
Vol 34 (5) ◽  
pp. 345-350 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jin-Ho Shin ◽  
Seok-Ryul Oh ◽  
Soon-Yong Hwang ◽  
Sook-Nye Chung ◽  
Ji-Hui Kim ◽  
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2019 ◽  
Vol 96 (12) ◽  
pp. 1125-1129 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. Yu. Popova ◽  
V. B. Gurvich ◽  
S. V. Kuzmin ◽  
A. L. Mishina ◽  
Sergey V. Yarushin

The paper presents approaches to the implementation the basic paradigm of the development for the legislative and regulatory framework to ensure the sanitary and epidemiological welfare of the population based on the comprehensive implementation of the methodology of the health risk assessment and management. The consistent implementation of the legislative and regulatory framework should provide getting answers main questions: what, where, when, how we are to assess and above all how we have to manage and control health risks. The suggested approach involves the accumulation capacities and resources of all the stakeholders: State-Russian Federation constituent-municipality-economic entity-non-governmental organizations-population in the assessment, management and control health risks both for the public in general and for certain socio-economic groups. This integrated system is aimed at the decline of public health risks to levels that cannot be detected using current knowledge and methods. The described requirements for incorporation of health risk assessment, management and monitoring methods into the health, consumer rights and labor legislation framework and other areas of legislative regulation must be applicable for corporate entities’ and sole entrepreneurs’ various business activities that affect (pose a threat, create a risk, cause harm) public health as well as regulation of the social and economic development of the nation in general.


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