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A systematic evaluation of the changes in population health which would result from modifying the population distribution of exposure to a risk factor or a group of risk factors.
» Read more CRA provides a means of quantifying the contribution to the overall burden of disease from different risk factors, in a comparable and consistent way – as in assessments of the regional or global environmental burden of disease. It typically combines these effects into a single measure of impact, such as disability adjusted life years (DALYs).