Health effect assessment of risk factors for developing population intervention strategies

Population health is affected by distal factors such as social, economic, cultural factors, proximal factors such as behavior, environment and health services, and biologic factors such as genetics and local microbial populations. Nowadays, China is in the throes of rapid economic and social development, which may affect disease patterns through changes in behavior, environment or communicable disease. This paper addresses the burden of disease attributable to common behavior, environmental and disease risk factors in 2013, and changes in their influence between 1990 and 2013. According to these findings, we can discern critical factors that affecting population health, identify the target populations of public health intervention projects, and design effective and more targeted prevention strategies to control the burden of chronic diseases. Key words: Risk factors; Chronic disease; Burden of disease; Attribution analysis