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 …

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 report provides a comprehensive assessment of the health of the world's population in
2004. Consistent and comparative description of the burden of diseases and injuries is an …

In 1993 the World Bank sponsored a study to assess the global burden of disease in
collaboration with the World Health Organization (WHO) and the Harvard School of Public …

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 …

In 1993 the Harvard School of Public Health in collaboration with The World Bank and WHO
assessed the Global Burden of Disease (GBD). As well as generating comprehensive and …

In 1993 the World Bank, in collaboration with the World Health Organization (WHO) and the
Harvard School of Public Health, sponsored a study to assess the global burden of disease …

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 …

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 …

The next two decades will see dramatic changes in the health needs of the world's
populations. In the developing regions where four-fifths of the planet's people live …