| 1. Title: The global burden of disease: a comprehensive assessment of mortality and disability from diseases, injuries, and risk factors in 1990 and projected to 2020. Author: Murray CJ; Lopez AD Source: Boston, Massachusetts, Harvard University, School of Public Health, 1996. xxxii, 990 p. (Global Burden of Disease and Injury Series Vol. 1) Abstract: This is the first in a planned series of 10 volumes that will attempt to "summarize epidemiological knowledge about all major conditions and most risk factors;...generate assessments of numbers of deaths by cause that are consistent with the total numbers of deaths by age, sex and region provided by demographers;...provide methodologies for and assessments of aggregate disease burden that combine--into the Disability-Adjusted Life Year or DALY measure--burden from premature mortality with that from living with disability; and...use historical trends in main determinants to project mortality and disease burden forward to 2020." This first volume includes chapters summarizing results from the project as a whole. (EXCERPT) Language: English Keywords: GLOBAL | HEALTH | EPIDEMIOLOGY | CAUSES OF DEATH | AGE FACTORS | SEX FACTORS | GEOGRAPHIC FACTORS | METHODOLOGICAL STUDIES | DISABLED PERSONS AND DISABILITIES | LIFE EXPECTANCY | POPULATION PROJECTION | Public Health | Mortality | Population Dynamics | Demographic Factors | Population | Population Characteristics | Length of Life | Estimation Techniques | Research Methodology Document Number: 252874 |
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