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. Woodcock, J., Franco, O.H., Orsini, N., Roberts, I. Non-Vigorous Physical Activity and All-Cause Mortality: Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Cohort Studies.
Int. J. Epidemiol.
2011 Feb;40(1):121–38.
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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
. 2009;338:b688.
11
. Ben Goldacre. Vitamin Pills Can Lead You To Take Health Risks.
The Guardian
. 2011. Available from:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2011/aug/26/bad-science-vitamin-pills-lead-you-to-take-risks
.
12
. Shaw, K.A., Gennat, H.C., O’Rourke, P., Del Mar, C. Exercise for Overweight or Obesity. Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. 1996. Available from:
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/14651858.CD003817.pub3/abstract
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Chapter 18: Health and Safety

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. Health and Safety Executive. Myth: You Can’t Throw Out Sweets at Pantos. 2009. Available from:
http://www.hse.gov.uk/myth/dec09.htm
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2
.
Daily Telegraph
. Health and Safety Fears Are ‘Taking the Joy out of Playtime’. Telegraph.co.uk. 1 Jul 2011. Available from:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/education/educationnews/8612145/Health-and-safety-fears-are-taking-the-joy-out-of-playtime.html
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3
. Adams, J. Risk in a Hypermobile World. 2012. Available from:
http://www.john-adams.co.uk/
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4
.
Hazards
.
Hazards
117, January–March 2012. Available from:
http://www.hazards.org/haz117/index.htm
.
5
. Health and Safety Executive. HSE Statistics: Historical Picture. 2000. Available from:
http://www.hse.gov.uk/statistics/history/index.htm
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6
. Health and Safety Executive. Self-Reported Work-Related Illness and Workplace Injuries. 2008. Available from:
http://www.hse.gov.uk/statistics/lfs/index.htm
.
7
. Health and Safety Executive. Workplace Fatalities and Injuries Statistics in the EU [Internet]. 2008. Available from:
http://www.hse.gov.uk/statistics/european/index.htm
.
8
. Bureau of Labor Statistics. Census of Fatal Occupational Injuries (CFOI) – Current and Revised Data. Available from:
http://www.bls.gov/iif/oshcfoi1.htm
.
9
. International Labour Organisation. Global Workplace Deaths Vastly Under-Reported, Says ILO [Internet]. Available from:
http://www.ilo.org/global/about-the-ilo/press-and-media-centre/news/WCMS_005176/lang--en/index.htm
.
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:
http://www.ilo.org/safework/info/publications/WCMS_162662/lang--en/index.htm
.
11
. Asian Development Bank. People’s Republic of China: Coal Mine Safety Study. Part II: Review and Analysis of International Experience.
2007. Available from:
http://www.adb.org/Documents/Reports/Consultant/39657-PRC/39657-02-PRC-TACR.pdf
.
12
. Department of Energy and Climate Change. Coal Mining Technologies and Production Statistics – The Coal Authority. 2012. Available from:
http://coal.decc.gov.uk/en/coal/cms/publications/mining/mining.aspx
.
13
.
Hazards
. Safety in the Pits –
Hazards
issue 116, October–December 2011. Available from:
http://www.hazards.org/deadlybusiness/deadlymines.htm
.
14
. Ibid.
15
. Tu, J. Coal Mining Safety: China’s Achilles’ Heel.
China Security
. 2007;3:36–53.
16
. See note 11 above.
17
. See note 13 above.
18
. Roberts, S.E. Britain’s Most Hazardous Occupation: Commercial Fishing.
Accident Analysis & Prevention
. 2010 Jan;42(1):44–9.
19
. h2g2. The London Beer Flood of 1814. 2012. Available from:
http://h2g2.com/dna/h2g2/A42129876
.
20
. Wikipedia. Boston Molasses Disaster. 2012. Available from:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boston_Molasses_Disaster
.
21
. Wikipedia. Bhopal Disaster. 2012. Available from:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bhopal_disaster
.
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
. 1996 Feb 1;53(2):87–93.
24
. Miller, B.G., Jacobsen, M. Dust Exposure, Pneumoconiosis, and Mortality of Coalminers.
Br. J. Ind. Med
. 1985 Nov 1;42(11):723–33.
25
. Health Safety Executive R. Reducing Risks, Protecting People. HSE’s Decision-Making Process. 2001. Available from:
http://www.hse.gov.uk/risk/theory/r2p2.htm
.
26
. Bird, S., Fairweather, C. Revent Military Fatalities in Afghanistan by Cause and Nationality: Period 15, 5 September 2011 to 22 January 2012. Available from:
http://www.mrc-bsu.cam.ac.uk/Publications/PDFs/PERIOD_15_fatalities_in_Afghanistan_by_cause_and_nationality.pdf
.

Chapter 19: Radiation

1
. Adams J. Risk in a Hypermobile World. 2012. Available from:
http://www.john-adams.co.uk/
.
2
. Slovic P. Perception of Risk.
Science
. 1987 Apr 17;236(4799):280–5.
3
. Mehta, P., Smith-Bindman, R. Airport Full-Body Screening: What Is the Risk?
Arch Intern Med
. 2011 Jun 27;171(12):1112–5.
4. Health ProtectionAgency. Dose Comparisons for Ionising Radiation. Available from:
http://www.hpa.org.uk/Topics/Radiation/UnderstandingRadiation/UnderstandingRadiationTopics/DoseComparisonsForIonisingRadiation/
. 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
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5
. National Academy of Sciences. Health Effects of Radiation: Findings of the Radiation Effects Research Foundation. 2003. Available from:
http://delsold.nas.edu/dels/rpt_briefs/rerf_final.pdf
.
6
. United Nations Scientific Committee on the Effects of Atomic Radiation. UNSCEAR Assessments of the Chernobyl Accident. 2012. Available from:
http://www.unscear.org/unscear/en/chernobyl.html
.
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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.
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. 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
. 2009 Dec 14;169(22):2071–7.
9
. EU Business News. After Japan ‘Apocalypse’, EU Agrees Nuclear ‘Stress Tests’. Available from:
http://www.eubusiness.com/news-eu/japan-quake-nuclear.93d
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Chapter 20: Space

1
. BBC News. How Often Do Plane Stowaways Fall from the Sky? 13 Sep 2012. Available from:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-19562101
.
2
. Sagan C.
Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space
(New York, Random House, 1994).
3
.
The Guardian
. Comette Family Home Damaged by Egg-Sized Meteorite. 2011. Available from:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/oct/10/comette-family-home-damaged-meteorite
.
4
. Woo G.
Calculating Catastrophe
(London, Imperial College Press, 2011).
5
. Risk Management Solutions. Comet and Asteroid Risk: An Analysis of the 1908 Tunguska Event. 2009. Available from:
www.rms.com/publications/1908_tunguska_event.pdf
.
6
. National Research Council.
Defending Planet Earth:Near-Earth Object Surveys and Hazard Mitigation Strategies
(Washington, D.C.: The National Academies Press, 2010).
7
. Boslough, M.B.E., Crawford, D.A. Low-Altitude Airbursts and the Impact Threat.
International Journal of Impact Engineering
. 2008 Dec;35(12):1441–8.
8
. Ward, S.N., Asphaug, E. Asteroid Impact Tsunami: A Probabilistic Hazard Assessment.
Icarus
. 2000 May;145(1):64–78.
9
. See note 4 above.
10
. NASA. Near-Earth Object Program. Available from:
http://neo.jpl.nasa.gov/index.html
.
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. NASA NEO Program. The Torino Impact Hazard Scale. Available from:
http://neo.jpl.nasa.gov/torino_scale.html
.
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. NASA NEO Program. Predicting Apophis’ Earth Encounters in 2029 and 2036. Available from:
http://neo.jpl.nasa.gov/apophis/
.
13
. Discovery News. Hayabusa Asteroid Probe Awarded World Record : Discovery News. Available from:
http://news.discovery.com/space/hayabusa-asteroid-probe-gets-guinness-world-record-110620.html
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Chapter 21: Unemployment

1
. Taleb, N.
The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable
(New York: Random House, 2007).
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:
http://www.ons.gov.uk/ons/rel/lms/labour-market-statistics/november-2011/art-labour-market-flows--july-to-september-2011.html
.
4
. Thomas, K.
The Oxford Book of Work
(Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999).
5
. Trades Union Congress. The Costs of Unemployment. 2010. Available from:
http://www.tuc.org.uk/extras/costsofunemployment.pdf
.
6
. Ruhm, C.J. Are Recessions Good for Your Health?
The Quarterly Journal of Economics
. 2000 May 1;115(2):617–50.
7
. National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence. Worklessness and Health: What Do We Know about the Causal Relationship? 2005. Available from:
http://www.nice.org.uk/niceMedia/documents/worklessness_health.pdf
.
8
. Roelfs, D.J., Shor, E., Davidson, K.W., Schwartz, J.E. Losing Life and Livelihood: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Unemployment and All-Cause Mortality.
Soc. Sci. Med
. 2011 Mar;72(6):840–54.
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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
. 2009;(43):7–13.
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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:
http://ideas.repec.org/p/bri/cmpowp/04-097.html
.
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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:
http://ideas.repec.org/p/iza/izadps/dp4705.html
.

Chapter 22: Crime

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.
The Guardian
. Assaulted Pensioner Emma Winnall Dies of Her Injuries. 2012. Available from:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2012/may/29/assaulted-pensioner-emma-winnall-dies
.
2
. Home Office. Crime in England and Wales: Quarterly Update to September 2011. Available from:
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/crime-in-england-and-wales-quarterly-update-to-september-2011
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3
. BBC News. Whispering Game. 16 Feb 2006. Available from:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/4719364.stm
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4
. Kahneman, D.
Thinking, Fast and Slow
(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
(Dordrect: Springer, 2010), p. 37–59. Available from:
http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-90-481-8647-1_3
.
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. Fagerlin, A., Wang, C., Ubel, P.A. Reducing the Influence of Anecdotal Reasoning on People’s Health Care Decisions: Is a Picture Worth a Thousand Statistics?
Med. Decis. Making
. 2005 Aug;25(4):398–405.

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