Accompanying CD-ROM contains annex tables detailing population attributable fractions, mortality, and disease burden for selected major risk factors.
Over the centuries the health of populations has improved because science has helped us understand the main causes of disease affecting large populations from iodine deficiency to smoking and how...
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A Comparative Analysis of Methods of Health Risk Assessment
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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 User’s Guide is a resource for investigators and stakeholders who develop and review observational comparative effectiveness research protocols.
Providing an accessible analysis, this book will be important to public health policy-makers and practitioners, business and community leaders, health advocates, educators and journalists.
New topics in this edition include: Climate change, genetic testing and epidemiology; new methods for measuring the burden of disease; life course approaches to epidemiology, behavioural economics; and physical activity, health and ...
The contributors to this book include leading experts in epidemiological methods, ethics, health economics, health status measurement and the valuation of health states.