General management topics: Risk management
Risk management in programs
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Harmonised Assessment of Risk and Risk Management
for Water-Related Infectious Diseases: an Overview
Jamie Bartram, Lorna Fewtrell and Thor-Axel Stenström, 2001
A simplified framework; environmental exposure assessment; acceptable risk and health targets; risk management and implementation; public health status
(16 pages, pdf 322kb) -
WHO Cardiovascular Disease Risk Management Package
for Low and Medium Resource Settings
Cardiovascular Disease Programme, 2002
Protocols for 3 different scenarios; CVD risk assessment and management; counseling on diet and physical activity; counseling on cessation of tobacco use; patient record cards; evidence-based recommendations on blood pressure, drug therapy and specific antihypertensives
(38 pages, pdf 620kb) -
Food Safety Risk Management
Four components of risk management frameworks
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World Health Report 2002 - Reducing risks, promoting healthy lifestyle
This report describes the amount of disease, disability and death in the world today that can be attributed to some of the most important risks to human health. It also shows how much this burden could lowered in the next 20 years if the same risk factors were reduced.
(website to links for the whole report or individual chapters)