Health planning for the future: comparative risk assessment of five major lifestyle risk factors: evidence from the Wirral, UK | Zendy

Henrik Møller | Zendy; Mukesh Dherani | Zendy; Ceryl A. Harwood | Zendy; T. Kinsella | Zendy; Daniel Pope | Zendy

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Health planning for the future: comparative risk assessment of five major lifestyle risk factors: evidence from the Wirral, UK

Author(s) -

Henrik Møller,

Mukesh Dherani,

Ceryl A. Harwood,

T. Kinsella,

Daniel Pope

Publication year - 2012

Publication title -

journal of public health

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.916

H-Index - 82

eISSN - 1741-3850

pISSN - 1741-3842

DOI - 10.1093/pubmed/fds005

Subject(s) - environmental health , overweight , medicine , risk factor , risk assessment , public health , obesity , years of potential life lost , government (linguistics) , local government , attributable risk , epidemiology , gerontology , geography , population , life expectancy , nursing , linguistics , philosophy , computer security , computer science , archaeology

The aim of this study was to quantify and compare the burden of disease attributable to five major lifestyle-related risk factors in a UK Primary Care Trust (Wirral) using World Health Organizations' (WHO) comparative risk assessment (CRA) methodology to demonstrate its practical utility for informing local policy initiatives.

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