Harmful Effect Mitigation Task
A Harmful Effect Mitigation Task is a intervention that reduces harmful effects.
- Example(s):
- Counter-Example(s):
- See: Harm Reduction, Risk Management, Hazard, Emergency Management, Learned Harmlessness.
References
2023a
- (Open AI ChatGPT, 2023) ⇒ https://chat.openai.com
- Q: what is harm reduction? How does it relate to mitgation?
- A: Harm reduction is a public health approach that seeks to minimize the negative health, social, and economic consequences of harmful behaviors, particularly substance abuse and addiction, without requiring individuals to completely cease the harmful behavior. It aims to reduce the harm associated with harmful behavior, rather than focusing solely on elimination of the behavior itself.
Mitigation refers to actions taken to lessen the impact of a negative event or phenomenon. In the context of harm reduction, mitigation may refer to measures taken to reduce the harm associated with substance abuse or addiction, such as providing access to clean needles to reduce the transmission of diseases among intravenous drug users. The goal of mitigation is to reduce the negative consequences of harmful behavior, rather than eliminating the behavior itself.
2023b
- (Wikipedia, 2023) ⇒ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harm_reduction Retrieved:2023-2-7.
- Harm reduction, or harm minimization, refers to a range of public health policies designed to lessen the negative social and/or physical consequences associated with various human behaviors, both legal and illegal. Harm reduction is used to decrease negative consequences of recreational drug use and sexual activity without requiring abstinence, recognizing that those unable or unwilling to stop can still make positive change to protect themselves and others. Harm reduction is most commonly applied to approaches that reduce adverse consequences from drug use, and harm reduction programs now operate across a range of services and in different regions of the world. As of 2020, some 86 countries had one or more programs using a harm reduction approach to substance use, primarily aimed at reducing blood-borne infections resulting from use of contaminated injecting equipment.
Needle-exchange programmes reduce the likelihood of people who use heroin and other substances sharing the syringes and using them more than once. Syringe-sharing often leads to the spread of infections such as HIV or hepatitis C, which can easily spread from person to person through the reuse of syringes contaminated with infected blood. Needle and syringe programmes (NSP) and Opioid Agonist Therapy (OAT) outlets in some settings offer basic primary health care. Supervised injection sites are legally sanctioned, medically supervised facilities designed to provide a safe, hygienic, and stress-free environment for people who use substances. The facilities provide sterile injection equipment, information about substances and basic health care, treatment referrals, and access to medical staff.
Opioid agonist therapy (OAT) is the medical procedure of using a harm-reducing opioid that produces significantly less euphoria, such as methadone or buprenorphine to reduce opioid cravings in people who use illegal opioid, such as heroin; buprenorphine and methadone are taken under medical supervision. Another approach is Heroin assisted treatment, in which medical prescriptions for pharmaceutical heroin (diacetylmorphine) are provided to people who are dependent on heroin.
Media campaigns inform drivers of the dangers of driving drunk. Most people who recreationally consume alcohol are now aware of these dangers and safe ride techniques like 'designated drivers' and free taxicab programmes are reducing the number of drunk-driving accidents. Many schools now provide safer sex education to teen and pre-teen students, who may engage in sexual activity. Since some adolescents are going to have sex, a harm-reductionist approach supports a sexual education which emphasizes the use of protective devices like condoms and dental dams to protect against unwanted pregnancy and the transmission of STIs. Since 1999 some countries have legalized prostitution, such as Germany (2002) and New Zealand (2003).
Many street-level harm-reduction strategies have succeeded in reducing HIV transmission in people who inject substances and sex-workers. HIV education, HIV testing, condom use, and safer-sex negotiation greatly decreases the risk of acquiring and transmitting the HIV virus.
- Harm reduction, or harm minimization, refers to a range of public health policies designed to lessen the negative social and/or physical consequences associated with various human behaviors, both legal and illegal. Harm reduction is used to decrease negative consequences of recreational drug use and sexual activity without requiring abstinence, recognizing that those unable or unwilling to stop can still make positive change to protect themselves and others. Harm reduction is most commonly applied to approaches that reduce adverse consequences from drug use, and harm reduction programs now operate across a range of services and in different regions of the world. As of 2020, some 86 countries had one or more programs using a harm reduction approach to substance use, primarily aimed at reducing blood-borne infections resulting from use of contaminated injecting equipment.
2020
- (Wikipedia, 2020) ⇒ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitigation Retrieved:2020-5-13.
- Mitigation is the reduction of something harmful or the reduction of its harmful effects. It may refer to measures taken to reduce the harmful effects of hazards that remain in potentia, or to manage harmful incidents that have already occurred. It is a stage or component of emergency management and of risk management.
2020
- (ECDC, 2020) ⇒ European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (2020). "Novel Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) Pandemic: Increased Transmission In The EU/EEA And The UK – Sixth Update". Published: 12 March 2020.
- QUOTE: ... A rapid shift from a containment to a mitigation approach is required as the rapid increase in cases anticipated in the coming days to few weeks may not provide decision makers and hospitals enough time to realise, accept and adapt their response accordingly if not implemented ahead of time.
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1980
- (Fraser, 1980) ⇒ Bruce Fraser. (1980). “Conversational Mitigation.” Journal of pragmatics 4, no. 4 ** QUOTE: ... Mitigation is defined not as a particular type of speech act but the modification of a speech act: the reduction of certain unwelcome effects which a speech act has on the hearer. Within mitigation there appears to be two types: self-serving and altruistic. These are defined and examples are given. Finally, a variety of strategies used by speakers to indicate their intent to mitigate the force of an utterance are presented. These include the use of indirectness in performing a speech act, the use of distancing techniques, disclaimers, parenthetical verbs, tag questions and hedges. ...