The Pebble Remains in the Master’s Hand: Two Careers Spent Learning (Still) from John Evans

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• Personal Author:
  Finkel AM ; Gray GM
• Description:
  In this article, we discuss four vexing problems in risk-based decision making that John Evans has addressed over the last nearly 40 years and has perennially challenged the two of us and others to think about. We tackle the role in decision making of potential thresholds in dose-response functions, how the lack of health reference values for many chemicals may distort risk management, the challenge of model uncertainty for risk characterization, and the yet-untapped potential for value-of-information analysis to enhance public health decision making. Our theme is that work remains to be done on each of these, but that some of that work would merely involve listening to ideas that John has already offered. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Decision Making Occupational Health Risk Assessment Safety
• Keywords:
  Analytical Methods Author Keywords: Decision Making Decision Making Risk Analysis Risk Management Uncertainty Analysis Value-of-information
• ISSN:
  0272-4332
• Document Type:
  Text
• Funding:
  Grant
• Genre:
  Journal Article
• Place as Subject:
  District of Columbia ; Michigan ; OSHA Region 3 ; OSHA Region 5
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Volume:
  41
• Issue:
  4
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20070735
• Citation:
  Risk Anal 2021 Apr; 41(4):678-693
• Contact Point Address:
  Adam M. Finkel, School of Public Health, University of Michigan, 1415 Washington Heights, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA; tel: (202) 406-0042
• Email:
  adfinkel@umich.edu
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2021
• Performing Organization:
  University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
• Peer Reviewed:
  True
• Start Date:
  20050701
• Source Full Name:
  Risk Analysis
• End Date:
  20280630
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:1dbd7f51e0edef17a48a58488a64b7b425e47f5bdd75031da19e49c799859fa4d1356320faf7eeaebce0606bc4716ee3040aa05d1ab49bd949bc0c949358e566
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/208905/cdc_208905_DS1.pdf
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