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Global health risks

A response to the need for comprehensive, consistent and comparable information on health risks at global and regional level.

Global health risks is a comprehensive assessment of leading risks to global health. It provides detailed global and regional estimates of premature mortality, disability and loss of health attributable to 24 global risk factors.

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:: Corrigenda: for versions accessed on or before 03 November 2009 [pdf 23kb]

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MORE INFORMATION ON THE REPORT

Key figures and graphs [ppt 961kb]

THE REPORT IN SECTIONS

:: Front cover, table of contents and summary [pdf 945kb]
:: Part 1: Introduction [pdf 994kb]
:: Part 2: Results [pdf 1.57Mb]
:: Part 3: Joint effects of risk factors [pdf 443kb]
:: Annex A: Data and methods [pdf 1.39Mb]
:: References [pdf 148kb]

STATISTICS FROM THE REPORT

:: Regional estimates of YLL, YLD, DALYs, and deaths attributable to 24 risk factors for 2004: estimates of exposure prevalence for selected risk factors