Abstract
For risk management of accidents and disasters, many governments have developed risk management systems for accidental releases of chemicals, nuclear power plant accidents or natural disasters, etc. When we analyze injury occurrences from accidents and disasters on the basis of a concept of ‘risk’ which is defined as a probability of occurrence of advise effects, it becomes possible for us to analyze quantitatively the causes of injury occurrence and prevention methods. It is further requested for us to examine risk behavior as a human factor related to accidental injury prevention.
Risk behavior analysis for injury prevention has been introduced very recently. Generally, risk behavior analysis can be divided into two types of analyses; i.e., (1) risk assessment studies of risk behavior using epidemiology to quantitatively analyze the properties of risk behavior induced the risk of injury, and (2) risk management studies that quantitatively identify a cost-effective strategy to prevent occurrence of injury risk based on risk assessment study of risk behavior. In the present paper, we first outlined the recent studies of risk assessment and management of risk behavior associated with accidents in a community (e.g., traffic accidents, children's accidents), then we discussed the availability of risk behavior analysis to injury prevention.(View PDF for the rest of the abstract.)
