שאלה משלב א׳ בבריאות הציבור · מועד 2025, שאלה 140

Correct: C — hazard identification. The National Research Council framework proceeds in four steps, and the first asks whether the agent is capable of causing the health effect at all — a qualitative question answered from toxicology, animal data and epidemiology. Only once a hazard is established do dose-response assessment and exposure assessment (option A) follow, with risk characterisation, including attention to susceptible groups (option B), as the fourth step; risk communication (option D) is a parallel activity that accompanies the assessment rather than a stage within it.