Comparative Quantification of Health Risks. Global and Regional Burden of Disease Attributable to Selected Major Risk Factors

Abstract

The first volume contains a chapter describing the conceptual framework and methodological issues (Chapter 1) as well as sections on childhood and maternal nutrition, other nutrition-related risk factors and physical inactivity, and addictive substances. The final three sections are spent examining the associations between risk factors of interest and poverty; reporting the analytic methods used to derive estimates and to consider multiple risk factor interventions; and presenting some of the results for individual and joint effects as well as providing a summary of the conclusions and directions for future research.