Am J Epidemiol 2004; 159:818.
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Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
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Global Behavioural Risk Factor Surveillance
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD 21205
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Edited by David McQueen and Pekka Puska
ISBN 0-306-47777-7, Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers, New York, New York (Telephone: 212-620-8000, Website: http://www.kluweronline.com/), 2003, 262 pp., $65 (hardcover)
The now virtually global epidemiologic transition to chronic diseases (noninfectious diseases) accounting for the majority of deaths has generated interest worldwide in measuring, tracking, and addressing chronic disease risk factors (1). The transition to awareness of the importance