Returns a tibble of human-readable descriptions and authoritative help URLs
for all activities in common_risks(). Useful for quiz tooltips, API
responses, and dashboards.
Value
A tibble with columns:
activity: Activity name (matchescommon_risks()exactly)description: 1-2 sentence explanation of the riskhelp_url: Authoritative source URL (Wikipedia or similar)
Examples
activity_descriptions()
#> # A tibble: 119 × 3
#> activity description help_url
#> <chr> <chr> <chr>
#> 1 Mt. Everest ascent At 8,849m, extreme altitude… https:/…
#> 2 Himalayan mountaineering Expeditions to 8,000m+ peak… https:/…
#> 3 COVID-19 infection (unvaccinated) Unvaccinated COVID-19 infec… https:/…
#> 4 Spanish flu infection The 1918 influenza pandemic… https:/…
#> 5 Matterhorn ascent One of the Alps' deadliest … https:/…
#> 6 Living in US during COVID-19 (Jul 2020) Peak US COVID-19 mortality … https:/…
#> 7 Living (one day, age 90) Daily background mortality … https:/…
#> 8 Base jumping (per jump) Parachuting from fixed obje… https:/…
#> 9 First day of life (newborn) The first 24 hours carry el… https:/…
#> 10 COVID-19 unvaccinated (age 80+) Unvaccinated elderly face t… https:/…
#> # ℹ 109 more rows
activity_descriptions() |> dplyr::filter(grepl("Skydiving", activity))
#> # A tibble: 3 × 3
#> activity description help_url
#> <chr> <chr> <chr>
#> 1 Skydiving (per jump) Risk from parachute malfunction, mid-air collis… https:/…
#> 2 Skydiving (US) US skydiving fatality rate based on USPA incide… https:/…
#> 3 Skydiving (UK) UK skydiving fatality rate based on British Par… https:/…
