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. Byberg, L., Melhus, H., Gedeborg, R., Sundström, J., Ahlbom, A., Zethelius, B., et al. Total Mortality after Changes in Leisure Time Physical Activity in 50 Year Old Men: 35 Year Follow-Up of Population Based Cohort.
BMJ
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. Ben Goldacre. Vitamin Pills Can Lead You To Take Health Risks.
The Guardian
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Chapter 18: Health and Safety

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117, January–March 2012. Available from:
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. Health and Safety Executive. HSE Statistics: Historical Picture. 2000. Available from:
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6
. Health and Safety Executive. Self-Reported Work-Related Illness and Workplace Injuries. 2008. Available from:
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7
. Health and Safety Executive. Workplace Fatalities and Injuries Statistics in the EU [Internet]. 2008. Available from:
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.

8
. Bureau of Labor Statistics. Census of Fatal Occupational Injuries (CFOI) – Current and Revised Data. Available from:
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. International Labour Organisation. Global Workplace Deaths Vastly Under-Reported, Says ILO [Internet]. Available from:
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10
. International Labour Organisation. XIX World Congress on Safety and Health at Work – ILO Introductory Report: Global Trends and Challenges on Occupational Safety and Health. Available from:
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.

11
. Asian Development Bank. People’s Republic of China: Coal Mine Safety Study. Part II: Review and Analysis of International Experience.
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. Department of Energy and Climate Change. Coal Mining Technologies and Production Statistics – The Coal Authority. 2012. Available from:
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.

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.

14
. Ibid.

15
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China Security
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16
. See note 11 above.

17
. See note 13 above.

18
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Accident Analysis & Prevention
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19
. h2g2. The London Beer Flood of 1814. 2012. Available from:
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20
. Wikipedia. Boston Molasses Disaster. 2012. Available from:
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21
. Wikipedia. Bhopal Disaster. 2012. Available from:
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22
. See note 5 above.

23
. Albin, M., Horstmann, V., Jakobsson, K., Welinder, H. Survival in Cohorts of Asbestos Cement Workers and Controls.
Occup Environ Med
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24
. Miller, B.G., Jacobsen, M. Dust Exposure, Pneumoconiosis, and Mortality of Coalminers.
Br. J. Ind. Med
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.

26
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.

Chapter 19: Radiation

1
. Adams J. Risk in a Hypermobile World. 2012. Available from:
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.

2
. Slovic P. Perception of Risk.
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3
. Mehta, P., Smith-Bindman, R. Airport Full-Body Screening: What Is the Risk?
Arch Intern Med
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4. Health ProtectionAgency. Dose Comparisons for Ionising Radiation. Available from:
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. World Health Organisation (2012) Preliminary Dose Estimation from the nuclear accident after the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake and Tsunami.
http://www.who.int/ionizing_radiation/pub_meet/fukushima_dose_assessment/en/index.html
.

5
. National Academy of Sciences. Health Effects of Radiation: Findings of the Radiation Effects Research Foundation. 2003. Available from:
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.

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. United Nations Scientific Committee on the Effects of Atomic Radiation. UNSCEAR Assessments of the Chernobyl Accident. 2012. Available from:
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. Little, M.P., Hoel, D.G., Molitor, J., Boice, J.D., Wakeford, R., Muirhead, C.R. New Models for Evaluation of Radiation-Induced Lifetime Cancer Risk and its Uncertainty Employed in the UNSCEAR 2006 Report.
Radiat. Res
. 2008 Jun;169(6):660–76.

8
. Berrington de Gonzalez, A., Mahesh, M., Kim, K.-P., Bhargavan, M., Lewis, R., Mettler, F., et al. Projected Cancer Risks from Computed Tomographic Scans Performed in the United States in 2007.
Arch Intern Med
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9
. EU Business News. After Japan ‘Apocalypse’, EU Agrees Nuclear ‘Stress Tests’. Available from:
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.

Chapter 20: Space

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. BBC News. How Often Do Plane Stowaways Fall from the Sky? 13 Sep 2012. Available from:
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.

2
. Sagan C.
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(New York, Random House, 1994).

3
.
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4
. Woo G.
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(London, Imperial College Press, 2011).

5
. Risk Management Solutions. Comet and Asteroid Risk: An Analysis of the 1908 Tunguska Event. 2009. Available from:
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6
. National Research Council.
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7
. Boslough, M.B.E., Crawford, D.A. Low-Altitude Airbursts and the Impact Threat.
International Journal of Impact Engineering
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8
. Ward, S.N., Asphaug, E. Asteroid Impact Tsunami: A Probabilistic Hazard Assessment.
Icarus
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9
. See note 4 above.

10
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11
. NASA NEO Program. The Torino Impact Hazard Scale. Available from:
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. NASA NEO Program. Predicting Apophis’ Earth Encounters in 2029 and 2036. Available from:
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. Discovery News. Hayabusa Asteroid Probe Awarded World Record : Discovery News. Available from:
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.

Chapter 21: Unemployment

1
. Taleb, N.
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2
. Slovic, P.
The Perception of Risk
(London: Routledge, 2000).

3
. Office for National Statistics. Labour Market Flows, November 2011 (Experimental Statistics). 2011. Available from:
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.

4
. Thomas, K.
The Oxford Book of Work
(Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999).

5
. Trades Union Congress. The Costs of Unemployment. 2010. Available from:
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. Ruhm, C.J. Are Recessions Good for Your Health?
The Quarterly Journal of Economics
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7
. National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence. Worklessness and Health: What Do We Know about the Causal Relationship? 2005. Available from:
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Soc. Sci. Med
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. Clemens, T., Boyle, P., Popham, F. Unemployment, Mortality and the Problem of Health-Related Selection: Evidence from the Scottish and England & Wales (ONS) Longitudinal Studies.
Health Stat. Q
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. Gregg, P., Tominey, E. The Wage Scar from Youth Unemployment. Department of Economics, University of Bristol; 2004. Report No.: 04/097. Available from:
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.

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. Bell, D.N.F., Blanchflower, D.G. Youth Unemployment: Déjà Vu? Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA); 2010. Report No.: 4705. Available from:
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.

Chapter 22: Crime

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.
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.

2
. Home Office. Crime in England and Wales: Quarterly Update to September 2011. Available from:
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3
. BBC News. Whispering Game. 16 Feb 2006. Available from:
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4
. Kahneman, D.
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(New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2011).

5
. Slovic P. If I Look at the Mass I Will Never Act: Psychic Numbing and Genocide. In: Roeser, S., ed.
Emotions and Risky Technologies
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Med. Decis. Making
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