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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …