Global Burden of Disease and Risk Factors
- ISBN-10
- 0821362631
- ISBN-13
- 9780821362631
- Category
- Medical
- Pages
- 475
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2006-04-02
- Publisher
- World Bank Publications
- Author
- Alan D. Lopez
Description
Strategic health planning, the cornerstone of initiatives designed to achieve health improvement goals around the world, requires an understanding of the comparative burden of diseases and injuries, their corresponding risk factors and the likely effects of invervention options. The Global Burden of Disease framework, originally published in 1990, has been widely adopted as the preferred method for health accounting and has become the standard to guide the setting of health research priorities. This publication sets out an updated assessment of the situation, with an analysis of trends observed since 1990 and a chapter on the sensitivity of GBD estimates to various sources of uncertainty in methods and data.
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