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GC: n

S: http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?newsid=34396&cr=volcano (last access: 4 March 2013); http://www.who.int/healthinfo/global_burden_disease/global_health_risks/en/ (last access: 4 September 2014).

N: 1. A disease precursor associated with a higher than average morbidity or mortality rate. Disease precursors include demographic variables, certain individual behaviors, familial and individual histories, and certain physiologic changes.
2. human health risk: Degree of likelihood that one or more exposures to a hazardous substance may have damaged or will damage the health of the exposed person(s).

S: 1. http://medical-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/health+risk – Mosby’s Medical Dictionary, 8th edition. © 2009, Elsevier. (last access: 2 October 2015). 2. http://www.businessdictionary.com/definition/human-health-risk.html (last access: 2 October 2015).

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CR: health, healthiness, risk.