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

Table 3 Risk factor ranking by priority health indexes (with risk factors ordered from top to lowest based on the composite priority index D)

Risk factor	Priority health index A^a	Priority rank	Priority health index B^b	Priority rank	Priority health index C^c	Priority rank	Composite Index D^d	Priority rank
Has been diagnosed with hypertension	24	1	1039.002	1	19.41199	2	1.33	1
Physical Inactivity	31	3	980.0549	2	19.79463	1	2.00	2
Had no BP screening in last one year	24	1	951.235	3	18.95115	3	2.33	3
Has been diagnosed with high cholesterol	31	3	614.1151	5	18.20992	7	5.00	4
Current smoking	39	9	736.7486	4	18.67477	5	6.00	5
Abusive alcohol intake (binge drinking)	34	6	587.8737	6	18.54317	6	6.00	5
Overweight-Obesity	38	8	545.5287	8	18.85233	4	6.67	7
Eating < 5 servings of fruit and vegetables per week	37	7	480.3386	9	17.99008	8	8.00	8
Had no papanicolaou in last three years	39	9	557.361	7	17.62787	9	8.33	9
Has been diagnosed with diabetes	33	5	458.1501	10	17.01621	10	8.33	10
Had no mammography in last two years	45	11	267.5791	11	16.54336	11	11.00	11
Had no glucose screening in last two years	51	12	172.8065	12	14.38453	12	12.00	12

^aSum of the ranking values of the risk factor indicators.
^bProduct of re-scaled and standardized risk factor Indicators.
^cSum of re-scaled and standardized risk factor indicators.
^dComposite Index consisting of the average of the rankings of priority indexes a, b and c.

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