Background The Comparative Risk Assessment (CRA) project of the World Health
Organization (WHO) assessed worldwide mortality and morbidity in the year 2000 resulting …

Background Over the last decade, there have been several attempts to estimate the global
burden of ill health due to work activity. The most recent of these is the Comparative Risk …

Background Around the globe, work has a heavy impact on health. To better advise policy
makers, we assessed the global burden of disease and injury due to selected occupational …

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY The World Health Organization (WHO) and International Labour
Organization (ILO) have produced their first WHO/ILO Joint Estimates of the Work-related …

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 …

Objectives We provide a brief introduction to the objectives, data, methods and results of the
World Health Organization (WHO)/International Labor Organization (ILO) Joint Estimates of …

Objectives Globalization has made many of the traditional occupational safety and health
risks worse due to the large number of new worker generations that have been exposed to …

We made estimates of absolute morbidity and mortality due to occupational factors for the
world using all available published data as of 1994, and, where no data were available …

Majid Ezzati, Stephen Vander Hoorn, Alan D. Lopez, Goodarz Danaei, Anthony Rodgers,
Colin D. Mathers, and Christopher JL Murray across risk factors. For example, the implicit …

Background Estimation of the global burden of disease and injury due to selected
occupational factors is a topic of interest to policy makers, governments, and international …