The purpose of the ICRP detriment concept is to enable a quantitative comparison of stochastic radiation damage for the various organs. For this purpose, the organ-specific nominal risk coefficients are weighted with a function that is intended to express the amount of damage or, respectively, the severity of a disease. This function incorporates a variety of variables that do not depend on radiation parameters, but on characteristics of the disease itself. The question is raised as to whether the rather subtle way of defining the amount of damage is necessary for radiation protection purposes and whether a much simpler relationship can serve for this purpose as well or even better.

ICRP损害概念的目的是能够对各种器官的随机辐射损伤进行定量比较。为此，使用特定函数加权器官特定的名义风险系数，该函数旨在表示损害的程度或疾病的严重程度。该功能结合了各种变量，这些变量不取决于辐射参数，而是取决于疾病本身的特征。提出了一个问题，即对于辐射防护而言，是否需要用相当细微的方法来定义损害的金额，以及是否更简单的关系可以同时甚至更好地用于该目的。