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<h1 style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in"><b><font face="Arial" color="maroon" size="4"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; COLOR: maroon; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Global health risks <br><br></span></font></b></h1>
<h1 style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in"><b><font face="Arial" color="navy" size="2"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">World Health Organization, October 2009<br><br></span></font></b></h1>
<h1 style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in"><b><font face="Arial" color="navy" size="2"><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: normal; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Available online as PDF file [70p.] at:<br><a href="http://www.who.int/healthinfo/global_burden_disease/GlobalHealthRisks_report_full.pdf" target="_blank"><font color="navy"><span style="COLOR: navy">http://www.who.int/healthinfo/global_burden_disease/GlobalHealthRisks_report_full.pdf</span></font></a> <br>
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<p style="TEXT-INDENT: 0.5in"><strong><b><font face="Arial" color="navy" size="2"><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: normal; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">A response to the need for comprehensive, consistent and comparable information on health risks at global and regional level.</span></font></b></strong><b><font face="Arial" color="navy" size="2"><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"> </span></font></b></p>
<h1 style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in"><em><b><i><font face="Arial" color="navy" size="2"><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: normal; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Global health risks</span></font></i></b></em><font face="Arial" color="navy" size="2"><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: normal; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"> 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.<br>
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<p style="TEXT-JUSTIFY: inter-ideograph; MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><font face="Arial" color="navy" size="2"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">“……A description of diseases and injuries and the risk factors that cause them is vital for health decision-making and planning. Data on the health of populations and the risks they face are often fragmentary and sometimes inconsistent. A comprehensive framework is needed to pull together information and facilitate comparisons of the relative importance of health risks across different populations globally.</span></font></p>
<p style="TEXT-JUSTIFY: inter-ideograph; MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><font face="Arial" color="navy" size="2"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><br>Most scientific and health resources go towards treatment. However, understanding the risks to health is key to preventing disease and injuries. A particular disease or injury is often caused by more than one risk factor, which means that multiple interventions are available to target each of these risks. For example, the infectious agent <i><span style="FONT-STYLE: italic">Mycobacterium tuberculosis </span></i>is the direct cause of tuberculosis; however, crowded housing and poor nutrition also increase the risk, which presents multiple paths for preventing the disease. In turn, most risk factors are associated with more than one disease, and targeting those factors can reduce multiple causes of disease. For example, reducing smoking will result in fewer deaths and less disease from lung cancer, heart disease, stroke, chronic respiratory disease and other conditions. By quantifying the impact of risk factors on diseases, evidence-based choices can be made about the most effective interventions to improve global health….”</span></font></p>
<h1 style="TEXT-INDENT: 0.5in"><b><font face="Arial" color="navy" size="1"><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: normal; FONT-SIZE: 9pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">This document – the <i><span style="FONT-STYLE: italic">Global health risks </span></i>report – provides an update for the year 2004 of the comparative risk assessment (CRA) for 24 global risk factors</span></font></b></h1>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in"><font face="Arial" color="navy" size="2"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><a href="http://www.who.int/entity/healthinfo/global_burden_disease/global_health_risks_report_figures.ppt" target="_blank"><font color="navy"><span style="COLOR: navy">Key figures and graphs [ppt 1.17Mb]</span></font></a> </span></font></p>
<h3 style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in"><b><font face="Arial" color="navy" size="2"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">The Report in Sections</span></font></b></h3>
<h3 style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in"><b><font face="Arial" color="navy" size="1"><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: normal; FONT-SIZE: 9pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Website: </span></font></b><font face="Arial" color="navy" size="1"><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: normal; FONT-SIZE: 9pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><a href="http://www.who.int/healthinfo/global_burden_disease/global_health_risks/en/index.html" target="_blank"><font color="navy"><span style="COLOR: navy">http://www.who.int/healthinfo/global_burden_disease/global_health_risks/en/index.html</span></font></a></span></font><font face="Arial" color="navy" size="1"><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: normal; FONT-SIZE: 9pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"> </span></font></h3>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in"><span><b><font face="Arial" color="navy" size="2"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">::</span></font></b></span><font face="Arial" color="navy" size="2"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"> <a href="http://www.who.int/entity/healthinfo/global_burden_disease/GlobalHealthRisks_report_Front.pdf" target="_blank"><font color="navy"><span style="COLOR: navy">Front cover, table of contents and summary [pdf 930kb]</span></font></a> <br>
<span><b><font face="Arial" color="navy"><span style="COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">::</span></font></b></span> <a href="http://www.who.int/entity/healthinfo/global_burden_disease/GlobalHealthRisks_report_part1.pdf" target="_blank"><font color="navy"><span style="COLOR: navy">Part 1: Introduction [pdf 994kb]</span></font></a> <br>
<span><b><font face="Arial" color="navy"><span style="COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">::</span></font></b></span> <a href="http://www.who.int/entity/healthinfo/global_burden_disease/GlobalHealthRisks_report_part2.pdf" target="_blank"><font color="navy"><span style="COLOR: navy">Part 2: Results [pdf 1.57Mb]</span></font></a> <br>
<span><b><font face="Arial" color="navy"><span style="COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">::</span></font></b></span> <a href="http://www.who.int/entity/healthinfo/global_burden_disease/GlobalHealthRisks_report_part3.pdf" target="_blank"><font color="navy"><span style="COLOR: navy">Part 3: Joint effects of risk factors [pdf 443kb]</span></font></a> <br>
<span><b><font face="Arial" color="navy"><span style="COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">::</span></font></b></span> <a href="http://www.who.int/entity/healthinfo/global_burden_disease/GlobalHealthRisks_report_annex.pdf" target="_blank"><font color="navy"><span style="COLOR: navy">Annex A: Data and methods [pdf 841kb]</span></font></a> <br>
<span><b><font face="Arial" color="navy"><span style="COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">::</span></font></b></span> <a href="http://www.who.int/entity/healthinfo/global_burden_disease/GlobalHealthRisks_report_references.pdf" target="_blank"><font color="navy"><span style="COLOR: navy">References [pdf 148kb]</span></font></a><br>
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