MICROMORT

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Acronym	Definition
MICROMORT	One-in-a-Million Chance of Death from an Environmental Hazard

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Drinking 2 glasses of wine or riding a bike for 17 miles = 1, 2.5x the micromort of having a breast implant for life.

Aesthetic Surgery Journal Study Looks at Risk of Death from Breast Implant-Associated Anaplastic Large Cell Lymphoma

If willingness to pay is found to be $6.90 for a single micromort (that is, a risk change of 0.000001), then willingness to pay would be $6.9 million for a risk change of 1.00 (which sounds like going from a death probability of one to a death probability of zero).

`Value of life' figures help government measure risk

Annual dispersal rates (with 95% CIs) were estimated using MICROMORT (Heisey and Fuller 1985).

Survival, reproduction, and movements of moose in the Western upper peninsula of Michigan

We employed the MICROMORT program (Heisey and Fuller 1985, Ferreras et al.

Dynamics and viability of a metapopulation of the endangered Iberian lynx (Lynx pardinus)