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The most important question for applied health risk assessment is: What change in health risks would be caused by a given change in exposures? If this question can be answered reliably for different proposed changes in exposures, then the answers provide a basis for choosing among different risk management actions that affect or constrain exposures. More generally, risk assessment deals with the causal link between actions and their probable consequences. Therefore, techniques for modeling such causal relations are crucial to successful risk assessment.
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Cox, L.A. (2002). Causality. In: Risk Analysis Foundations, Models, and Methods. International Series in Operations Research & Management Science, vol 45. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-0847-2_4
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