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A priority health index identifies the top six priority risk and related factors for non-communicable diseases in Brazilian cities

BACKGROUND: In Brazil, 72% of all deaths in 2007 were attributable to non-communicable diseases (NCD). We used a risk and related factor based index to prioritize NCD prevention programs in the combined 26 capital cities and the federal district (i.e., Brasilia) of Brazil. METHODS: We used 2006–2011...

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Autores principales: Simoes, Eduardo J, Bouras, Adam, Cortez-Escalante, Juan Jose, Malta, Deborah C, Porto, Denise Lopes, Mokdad, Ali H, de Moura, Lenildo, Neto, Otaliba Libanio Morais
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2015
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4425866/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25924606
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12889-015-1787-1