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Adverse effects Definition from Science & Technology Dictionaries & Glossaries
Description: Adverse effects are changes in the physical environment or biota, including changes in climate, which have significant deleterious effects on human health or on the composition, resilience and productivity of natural and managed ecosystems, or on materials useful to mankind.
Source: Vienna Convention on the Protection of the Ozone Layer 1985
Description: Adverse effects [of climate change] means changes in the physical environment or biota resulting from [climate change] which have significant deleterious effects on the composition, resilience or productivity of natural and managed ecosystems or on the operation of socio-economic systems or on human health and welfare.
Source: UN Framework Convention on Climate Change
Description: Adverse effects are potential or probable changes in the physical environment or biota, including changes in climate, which have significant deleterious effects on human health or on the composition, resilience and productivity of natural and managed ecosystems, or in materials useful to humans. <br> «Effects» includes any effect on biodiversity that is direct or indirect, positive or adverse, immediate or delayed, potential or probable, temporary or permanent, adverse consequences, on inter alia (i) human beings, flora and fauna; (ii) soil, water, air and landscape; (iii) the interaction between the factors in (i) and (ii); (iv) material assets and cultural heritage, including historical monuments.
Source: New Zealand
Description: Adverse effects should not necessarily be restricted to industrial accidents but should include other causes. <br>Impacts on the physical environment, including the composition, resilience and productivity of natural or managed ecosystems, biota and human health, caused by experimentation in a natural setting, the release or transboundary movement of living organisms modified by biotechnology.
Source: Peru
Description: Adverse effects are consequences of activities involving LMOs which are deleterious to the conservation and sustainable use of biological diversity. These effects may be direct or indirect, immediate or delayed. Australia.<br>Adverse effects means any direct or indirect, immediate or delayed adverse consequences caused by LMOs accident on, inter alia, human health, biodiversity.
Source: China
Description: «Effects» means any direct or indirect, immediate or delayed adverse consequences caused by an [industrial] accident on, inter alia, (i) human beings, flora and fauna; (ii) soil, water, air and landscape; (iii) the interaction between the factors in (i) and (ii); (iv) material assets and cultural heritage, including historical monuments.
Source: Convention on the Transboundary Effects of Industrial Accidents 1992
© European Communities, 1995-2004Source: Vienna Convention on the Protection of the Ozone Layer 1985
Description: Adverse effects [of climate change] means changes in the physical environment or biota resulting from [climate change] which have significant deleterious effects on the composition, resilience or productivity of natural and managed ecosystems or on the operation of socio-economic systems or on human health and welfare.
Source: UN Framework Convention on Climate Change
Description: Adverse effects are potential or probable changes in the physical environment or biota, including changes in climate, which have significant deleterious effects on human health or on the composition, resilience and productivity of natural and managed ecosystems, or in materials useful to humans. <br> «Effects» includes any effect on biodiversity that is direct or indirect, positive or adverse, immediate or delayed, potential or probable, temporary or permanent, adverse consequences, on inter alia (i) human beings, flora and fauna; (ii) soil, water, air and landscape; (iii) the interaction between the factors in (i) and (ii); (iv) material assets and cultural heritage, including historical monuments.
Source: New Zealand
Description: Adverse effects should not necessarily be restricted to industrial accidents but should include other causes. <br>Impacts on the physical environment, including the composition, resilience and productivity of natural or managed ecosystems, biota and human health, caused by experimentation in a natural setting, the release or transboundary movement of living organisms modified by biotechnology.
Source: Peru
Description: Adverse effects are consequences of activities involving LMOs which are deleterious to the conservation and sustainable use of biological diversity. These effects may be direct or indirect, immediate or delayed. Australia.<br>Adverse effects means any direct or indirect, immediate or delayed adverse consequences caused by LMOs accident on, inter alia, human health, biodiversity.
Source: China
Description: «Effects» means any direct or indirect, immediate or delayed adverse consequences caused by an [industrial] accident on, inter alia, (i) human beings, flora and fauna; (ii) soil, water, air and landscape; (iii) the interaction between the factors in (i) and (ii); (iv) material assets and cultural heritage, including historical monuments.
Source: Convention on the Transboundary Effects of Industrial Accidents 1992
Adverse effects Definition from Encyclopedia Dictionaries & Glossaries
In medicine, an adverse effect is a harmful and undesired effect resulting from a medication or other intervention such as surgery. An adverse effect may be termed a "side effect", when judged to be secondary to a main or therapeutic effect, and may result from an unsuitable or incorrect dosage or procedure, which could be due to medical error. Adverse effects are sometimes referred to as "iatrogenic" because they are generated by a physician/treatment. Some adverse effects only occur only when starting, increasing or discontinuing a treatment. Using a drug or other medical intervention which is contraindicated may increase the risk of adverse effects. Adverse effects may cause medical complications of a disease or procedure and negatively affect its prognosis. They may also lead to non-compliance with a treatment regimen.
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