Contents: vol. 1, Childhood and maternal undernutrition—Other nutrition-related risk factors
and physical activity—Addictive substances—vol. 2, Sexual and reproductive health …

WHO's upcoming report Global health risks will identify the global and regional mortality and
disease burden associated with 24 health risks. These risk factors range from environmental …

Background Most analyses of risks to health focus on the total burden of their aggregate
effects. The distribution of risk-factor-attributable disease burden, for example by age or …

Reliable, comparable information about the main causes of disease and injury in
populations, and how these are changing, is a critical input for debates about priorities in the …

This report uses a comprehensive framework for studying health risks that was developed
for the World Health Report 2002, which presented estimates for the year 2000. The report …

Background Quantification of the disease burden caused by different risks informs
prevention by providing an account of health loss different to that provided by a disease-by …

Summary Background The Global Burden of Diseases, Injuries, and Risk Factors Study
2016 (GBD 2016) provides a comprehensive assessment of risk factor exposure and …

Over the past six years, the World Health Organization has undertaken a new assessment of
the global burden of disease for 2000-2. The World Health Organization has also invested in …

Background Our aim was to calculate the global burden of disease and risk factors for 2001,
to examine regional trends from 1990 to 2001, and to provide a starting point for the analysis …

Summary Background The Global Burden of Diseases, Injuries, and Risk Factors Study
2015 provides an up-to-date synthesis of the evidence for risk factor exposure and the …