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The perspective of this book is that risk is fundamentally quantitative, and when an intervention has some helpful and some harmful effects, it is necessary to use quantitative analysis (at least to place bounds on the sizes of different effects) to compare them and to determine the course of action yielding the largest human health benefits. The major goal of this book is to provide and illustrate methods for quantitative risk assessment and for comparing alternative risk management actions, given realistic limitations on scientific knowledge and available data.
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