evitarability
Evitarability is a proposed property of a process, event, or outcome that denotes the extent to which it can be prevented or avoided. In risk assessment and safety engineering, it is used to categorize harms or incidents by their preventability, distinguishing those that are avoidable given current knowledge, resources, and constraints from those that are not. The concept serves as a heuristic for prioritizing interventions and allocating resources.
Etymology and usage: the term combines evitar (to avoid) with the English suffix -ability, reflecting its meaning
Measurement and interpretation: there is no universally accepted scale for evitarability. Researchers may approximate it with
Applications: in public health, evitarability helps prioritize interventions (for example, vaccination or sanitation can decrease the
Limitations and critique: avoidability judgments involve value judgments about acceptable risk and feasibility; the lack of
See also: preventable harm, avoidability, risk assessment, safety engineering.