health risk
Threat to wellbeing
A health risk is anything that increases the likelihood of disease, injury, or death.
The term covers behaviors like smoking, environmental factors like air pollution, and medical conditions like high blood pressure.
Obesity is a major health risk.
The study evaluated health risks associated with prolonged screen time.
Risk factors are often cumulative—multiple health risks compound each other.
- alcohol consumptionIngesting intoxicating beverages
- drug abuseHarmful use of drugs
- unsafe sexIntercourse without contraception
- asbestos exposureContact with carcinogenic mineral fibers
- pollutionEnvironmental harm from waste
smoking · poverty · hazardous waste · genetics · heredity · food insecurity · workplace accidents · congenital disorder · obesity · mutation · water contamination · sleep deprivation · malnutrition · immune deficiency · sedentary lifestyle · processed food · radiation exposure · sun exposure
- risk assessmentexposure assessment, dose-response, safety margins, vulnerable populations
- mercury pollutionmercury poisoning, mercury exposure, mercury vapor, methylmercury, mercury contamination
- Tobacco Controlsmoking bans, smoking ban, warning labels, cigarette tax, tobacco taxes
- hazardous wastetoxic waste, hazardous waste, chemical waste, radioactive waste, industrial waste
- hoardinghoarding, clutter, accumulating, collecting, stockpiling
- radiation effectsradiation sickness, hair loss, nausea, vomiting, fatigue
health riskpreventive measure
Action averting future harm
healing factor · medicine · remedy · cure · treatment