Comparative quantification of health risks
Global and regional burden of disease attribution to selected major risk factors
The Comparative quantification of health risks provides a comprehensive assessment of the prevalence and the resulting health effects of a range of exposures that are known to be hazardous to human health. This two-volume book describes the burden of regional and global disease, disability and death in 2000 that can be attributed to 26 major risks to human health. It also shows how much this burden can be lowered in the next 20 years if the same risk factors were reduced.
Book by chapters
Volume 1
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Foreword and preface
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Chapter 1: Conceptual framework and methodological issues
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Chapter 2: Childhood and maternal underweight
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Chapter 3: Iron deficiency anaemia
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Chapter 4: Vitamin A deficiency
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Chapter 5: Zinc deficiency
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Chapter 6: High blood pressure
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Chapter 7: High cholesterol
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Chapter 8: Overweight and obesity (high body mass index)
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Chapter 9: Low fruit and vegetable consumption
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Chapter 10: Physical inactivity
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Chapter 11: Smoking and oral tobacco use
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Chapter 12: Alcohol use
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Chapter 13: Illicit drug use
pdf, 204kb
Volume 2
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Chapter 14: Unsafe sex
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Chapter 15: Non-use and use of ineffective methods of contraception
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Chapter 16: Unsafe water, sanitation and hygiene
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Chapter 17: Urban air pollution
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Chapter 18: Indoor air pollution from household use of solid fuels
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Chapter 19: Lead exposure
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Chapter 20: Global climate change
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Chapter 21: Selected occupational risk factors
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Chapter 22: Contaminated injections in health care settings
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Chapter 23: Child sexual abuse
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Chapter 24: Distribution of risks by poverty
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Chapter 25: Estimating attributable burden of disease from exposure and hazard data
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Chapter 26: Mortality and burden of disease attributable to individual risk factors
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Chapter 27: Potential health gains from reducing multiple risk factors
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Chapter 28: Effects of multiple interventions
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Chapter 29: Conclusions and directions for future research
pdf, 33kb