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.

POPLINE Document Number: 252874

Author(s):

Murray CJ
Lopez AD

Source citation:

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)

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 Technics
Research Methodology