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The Distributed Risks of Safety Management

2017
Mainstream patient safety thinking is dominated by a faith in the possibility of risk elimination and failsafe organization. This chapter shows that rather than being eliminated, safety risks and organizational problems are likely to be redistributed when patient safety measures are introduced in clinical practice.
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Temporal distributions of risk for radiation-induced cancers

Journal of Chronic Diseases, 1987
Observations of cancer risk in irradiated human populations over time after exposure suggest that there are at least two, and perhaps more, very different patterns of temporal distribution of risk for radiation-induced cancer. The first, exemplified by bone sarcoma following therapeutic injection of 224Ra and chronic granulocytic leukemia in Japanese A-
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The distribution, characteristics and ecological risks of microplastics in the mangroves of Southern China.

Science of the Total Environment, 2019
Ruili Li, Lingyun Yu, M. Chai, Hailun Wu, Xiaoshan Zhu   +4 more
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Characterization of antibiotics in a large-scale river system of China: Occurrence pattern, spatiotemporal distribution and environmental risks.

Science of the Total Environment, 2018
Haiyang Chen, Lijun Jing, Yanguo Teng, Jinsheng Wang   +3 more
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Of Risk Taking and the Personal Distribution of Income

Journal of Political Economy, 1979
This paper revisits the analysis of risk taking and income distribution pioneered by Friedman, but in an extended--general equilibrium--framework. The results of this paper cast doubt on the generality of many of Friedman's strong propositions. In particular, we find that the relationship between inequality and liking for risk is not necessarily ...
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[Effect of fat distribution on risk].

Acta medica Austriaca, 1999
About 10 years ago the WHO defined obesity as a separate disease whereas in Austria until now it is often regarded as a cosmetical problem only. Many diseases like those of joints and spine are correlated to the body weight and the body mass index (BMI), but macrovascular events (cardiovascular and cerebrovascular) and early death are closer associated
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Antibiotics in the coastal water of the South Yellow Sea in China: Occurrence, distribution and ecological risks.

Science of the Total Environment, 2017
Juan Du, Hongxia Zhao, Sisi Liu, Huaijun Xie, Yan Wang, Jingwen Chen   +5 more
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Occurrence, Distribution and Ecological Risks of Fluoroquinolone Antibiotics in the Dongjiang River and the Beijiang River, Pearl River Delta, South China

Bulletin of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology, 2017
Ruiling Zhang, Ruijie Zhang, S. Zou, Ying Yang, Jun Li, Yinghui Wang, Kefu Yu, Gan Zhang   +7 more
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ESTIMATION OF RISK MEASURES FROM HEAVY TAILED DISTRIBUTIONS

Far East Journal of Theoretical Statistics, 2021
Deme, El Hadji, Allaya, Mouhamad M., Deme, Siradhi, Dhaker, Hamza, Dabye, Ali Souleyman   +4 more
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The distribution of weight-related risks among low-income women during the first postpartum year.

Journal of Obstetric, Gynecologic and Neonatal Nursing, 2011
L. Walker, E. Fowles, B. Sterling
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