In the model in figure 1, knowledge of harm tips the balance towards labeling an event as error, but not knowing the outcome leaves the balance unswayed.
For example, in therapeutic indications where treatment with a medicine of inferior efficacy would risk increasing mortality or may delay more effective treatment, leading to irreversible harm, the benefit risk balance may be deemed negative even when the comparison with placebo seems favourable.
The justices will not try to determine the extent of harm but rather the balance of power between the executive branch and the courts in resolving such issues.
One argument could be that, as women have been judged almost exclusively on how they look, putting up with the "male gaze" for centuries, where is the harm in redressing the balance, giving men a taste of their own medicine?
Even rocks, coral, and substrate must be chosen with care to avoid harming the saltwater balance, so always take these matters into account when selecting the design elements.
By encouraging (in effect, subsidising) ever more Britons to holiday abroad, extra runway capacity would probably harm rather than help the balance of payments.
By encouraging (in effect, subsidising) ever more Britons to holiday abroad, extra runway capacity would probably harm rather than help the balance of payments.
The standard for stay determinations ostensibly includes four factors: (1) the likelihood of success on appeal; (2) the likelihood of irreparable harm pending appeal; (3) the balance of the hardships; and (4) the public interest.
Although the classic medical principle of "first do no harm" refers primarily to the balance of risks and benefits of a specific treatment, it also fits a more general approach to the practice of medicine.
The AIP could be seen as a concerted effort to address alcohol-related harm and to refocus the balance of action towards health after decades when alcohol had a low policy profile on health service agendas, when it was subject to relative resource deprivation in comparison with drugs and when it tended to be viewed through the lens of crime and disorder.
