Term used to designate financial liability in compensation/reimbursement arrangements. A provider may be "at risk" for additional costs, for example, if the expense of caring for a particular panel of patients exceeds the provider's capitation payment.
Used to describe a person whose first-degree relative (parent, brother, sister, or child) or second-degree relative (grandparent, aunt, uncle, grandchild) has a genetic disorder, but it is not yet known if the individual in question inherited the genetic condition. The individual is therefore described as being "at risk" for the condition.
The status of a student who is deemed to be experiencing difficulties in their studies and who may be at risk of exclusion.
When an individual or family faces a situation (e.g. medical, abuse, neglect, or educational crisis) that could progress into a worse situation without proper intervention they are said to be "at-risk."
Individual behavior that identifies a person who is engaging in behaviors that are likely to transmit HIV, the AIDS virus. "Groups" per se are not at risk -- rather the commonly-practiced behaviors of their individual members make them more susceptible to be infected.
A term applied to students who have not been adequately served by social service or educational systems and who are at risk of educational failure due to lack of services, negative life events, or physical or mental challenges, among others.
a general status category for a species for which a formal detailed risk assessment (COSEWIC assessment or provincial or territorial equivalent) has been completed and that have been determined to be at risk of extirpation or extinction (i.e., endangered or threatened). A COSEWIC designation of Endangered or Threatened automatically results in a general status rank of At Risk nationally. Where a provincial or territorial formal risk assessment finds a species to be “endangered†or “threatened†in that particular region, then, under the general status system, the species automatically receives a provincial or territorial general status rank of At Risk. In this case, if the species is restricted to that province or territory, it would also automatically receive a national general status rank of At Risk. Note that this rank does not necessarily reflect the global status of the species.