UID:
edocfu_9958114498202883
Format:
xxix, 475 pages :
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illustrations ;
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29 cm.
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
1-280-45885-2
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9786610458851
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0-8213-6263-1
Series Statement:
World Bank e-Library.
Content:
This volume is a single up-to-date source on the entire global epidemiology of diseases, injuries and risk factors with a comprehensive statement of methods and a complete presentation of results. It includes refined methods to assess data, ensure epidemiological consistency, and summarize the disease burden. Global Burden of Disease and Risk Factors examines the comparative importance of diseases, injuries, and risk factors; it incorporates a range of new data sources to develop consistent estimates of incidence, prevalence, severity and duration, and mortality for 136 major diseases and inju
Note:
"Disease Control Priorities Project"--Cover.
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Contents; Foreword; Preface; Editors; Advisory Committee to the Editors; Contributors; Disease Control Priorities Project Partners; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations and Acronyms; Chapter 1 Measuring the Global Burden of Disease and Risk Factors, 1990-2001; List of Figures; List of Boxes; List of Tables; Part I: Global Burden of Disease and Risk Factors; Part II: Sensitivity Analyses; Glossary; Index
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-8213-6262-3
Language:
English
