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GLOBAL BURDEN OF DISEASE AND INJURY SERIES
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"Global Burden of Disease and Injury Series," edited by Christopher J.L.
Murray and Alan D. Lopez
The series is published by the Harvard School of Public Health on behalf
of the World Bank and the World Health Organization and distributed
through Harvard University Press.
It describes a new approach to assessing the state of the world's health,
an approach that has generated global health data unprecedented in their
completeness, comparability and objectivity. To compile these data, over
100 researchers collaborated on the five-year Global Burden of Disease
Study (GBD). This series presents the GBDs updated fifth round of results.
The Global Burden of Disease (Volume I) provides an overview of the
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outcomes. The resulting statistical tables and in-depth conclusions
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health of populations.
Global Health Statistics (Volume II) provides useful epidemiological
statistics for 240 important sequelae included in the GBD. In this volume,
an encyclopedic set of tables presents internally consistent and
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measures: mortality, incidence, prevalence, duration, average age of
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