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Risk assessment is a tool for the objective evaluation of risk, and is increasingly used in veterinary epidemiology. Risk assessment forms a part of an overarching '''Risk analysis''' process, which also incorporates risk management (the process whereby the risk is reduced) and risk communication (which involves the dissemination of relevant information to stakeholders).
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Risk assessment is a tool for the objective evaluation of risk, and is increasingly used in veterinary epidemiology. Risk assessment forms a part of an overarching '''risk analysis''' process, which also incorporates risk management (the process whereby the risk is reduced) and risk communication (which involves the dissemination of relevant information to stakeholders). In risk assessment, the concept of risk can be viewed as the product of the '''likelihood''' of an event occurring and the '''consequences''' of that event.
  
 
[[Category:Veterinary Epidemiology - Further Concepts|A]]
 
[[Category:Veterinary Epidemiology - Further Concepts|A]]

Revision as of 18:00, 24 March 2011

Risk assessment is a tool for the objective evaluation of risk, and is increasingly used in veterinary epidemiology. Risk assessment forms a part of an overarching risk analysis process, which also incorporates risk management (the process whereby the risk is reduced) and risk communication (which involves the dissemination of relevant information to stakeholders). In risk assessment, the concept of risk can be viewed as the product of the likelihood of an event occurring and the consequences of that event.