Non-communicable disease behavioural risk factors such as tobacco smoking, heavy
alcohol consumption, physical inactivity, and unhealthy eating are socially patterned in high …

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 Prevention and control of disease and injury require information about the
leading medical causes of illness and exposures or risk factors. The assessment of the …

The Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) held a workshop in Seattle (March 1
and 2, 2018) to plan a new Initiative—the Global Burden of Disease (GBD)-Pollution and …

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

Urbanisation is one of the leading global trends of the 21st century and the UN predicts that
seven in ten people will live in urban areas by 2050. 1 With hasty global urbanisation, the …

Methods The WHO comparative risk assessment used a common statistical model that
allows a reader to compare the contribution (attributable fraction) of several risk factors with …

Background Future trends in disease burden and drivers of health are of great interest to
policy makers and the public at large. This information can be used for policy and long-term …

Comment www. thelancet. com Vol 364 September 11, 2004 913 and more importantly to
programmes for delivery of available interventions4, 5, 13 to those at need. Hazards were …