Description: This article is about environmental risk occupations, local environment and substance abuse and how they influence actuarial financial estimates. From The Actuary Vol. 24, No. 1

Description: This article is a review of another article that is an exposition of the mathematical methods used in the Framingham Study.

Description: An interview with Jim Toole, lead researcher for SOA's pandemic research project. The project examines pandemic influenza and its implications to the life and health insurance industry.

Description: Table from an article in The Actuary Magazine on an analysis of risk management terminology: your guide to speaking ERM with different industries. Volumn 4, Issue 6

Description: This report is a brief summary of a symposium held in Sweden in March 1972, initiated and sponsored by the Swedish insurance companies which discusses the side effects of the development of modern chemical industry and the exposure of living organisms to a variety of chemicals in the environment. The danger of the long term effects on health are addressed.

Description: Article from The Actuary, October 1971 – volume 5 - Issue 8 that talks about society's love of dirt and how it affects the life insurance industry.

Description: Article from The Actuary, April 1972 – volume 6 - Issue 4 is a review of a book by Lewis C. Robbins, M.D., M.P.H. and Jack H. Hall, A.B., M.D., titled How To Practice Prospective Medicine by assessing and classifying various health risk factors. The review states the authors' basic assumption that average risk can be determined by calculating the total numbers of deaths by cause in the general population is open to criticism. Furthermore, the assignment of weights for the individual risk factors is quite tenuous in many instances. The authors acknowledge this, but once a number appears in print, especially as part of a complex table, it achieves a sanctity that is difficult to destroy.

Description: This article summarizes the 1967 Surgeon General’s report on the health consequences of smoking.

Description: Table from an article in The Actuary Magazine on an analysis of risk management terminology: your guide to speaking ERM with different industries. Volume 4, Issue 6