Title: public health impact assessment
Long Title: IUPAC Gold Book - public health impact assessment
DOI: 10.1351/goldbook.16015
Status: current

Definition
Applying risk assessment to a specific target population of known size, giving as the end product a quantitative statement about the number of people likely to be affected in a particular population.

Source
- PAC, 2007, 79, 1153. 'Glossary of terms used in toxicology, 2nd edition (IUPAC Recommendations 2007)' on page 1291 (https://doi.org/10.1351/pac200779071153)

Other Outputs
- html: https://goldbook.iupac.org/terms/view/16015/html
- json: https://goldbook.iupac.org/terms/view/16015/json
- xml: https://goldbook.iupac.org/terms/view/16015/xml

Citation: Citation: 'public health impact assessment' in IUPAC Compendium of Chemical Terminology, 5th ed. International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry; 2025. Online version 5.0.0, 2025. 10.1351/goldbook.16015
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