Background The prevalence of non-communicable diseases in Thailand has been steadily
increasing over the past 10 years. Reliable and comparable evidence on burden attributable …

Background Existing health risk measures are narrow in scope, often limited to specific
diseases or clinical subpopulations. Modifiable risks account for a large fraction of death, but …

The rising frequency of preventable chronic diseases such as heart disease, stroke,
diabetes, obesity, and cancer is a serious issue for quality of life across Europe. With …

Summary Background The Nordic countries have commonalities in gender equality,
economy, welfare, and health care, but differ in culture and lifestyle, which might create …

Background Estimates of the disease burden due to multiple risk factors can show the
potential gain from combined preventive measures. But few such investigations have been …

When the global burden of disease (GBD) methodology was introduced some 30 years ago,
it represented a significant step toward providing systematic, comparable disease …

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 …

This paper, the first in a three-part Series on work and health, provides a narrative review of
research into work as a social determinant of health over the past 25 years, the key …

The preceding paper by Kjellstrom et al. uses transportation as an example to consider the
performance of two approaches (referred to as comparative risk assessment (CRA) and …

Given the breadth of the Global Burden of Disease (GBD) 2010 study, it was not possible to
provide a detailed account of the methods and data used for each risk1 as requested by I …