With the goal of expediting the development of evidence-based recommendations for preventing harmful environmental exposures, beginning in 2009 a collaboration of scientists and clinicians undertook the development of the Navigation Guide methodology for systematic review.
The group's military recommendations are potentially more harmful.
Some UAPs' practices are contrary to current World Health Organization recommendations and could be harmful.
There is no alcohol-equivalent to the FCTC, although the WHO recently submitted a draft global strategy to reduce harmful use of alcohol, which included recommendations and proposals for regulating availability, marketing and pricing [ 108].
Scotland's chief medical officer, Harry Burns, wants broader scientific concensus: "Dietary supplements can have harmful as well as positive consequences, and recommendations need to be made on the basis of evidential benefit in well-conducted, randomised studies in large populations.
It is remarkable that this unproven and potentially harmful procedure remains firmly entrenched in consensus recommendations and protocols.
The use of off label and unlicensed medicines implies that there are no proper labelling and dosing recommendations, which can potentially be harmful to children.
The assessment makes a variety of recommendations for policy makers remove environmentally harmful subsidies to agriculture and fisheries, improve management of ecosystem services in regional planning decisions, provide public education about the importance of ecosystems, promote greener technologies, and more.
For example, in the chapter on 'Immediate management', the suggested tidal volumes of 15 mL/kg are wholly out of keeping with any current management recommendations (and may actually be harmful).
Categorizing behaviors as beneficial, harmful, non-existent or benign enables tailored programmatic recommendations.
