---- Clip from: HDDFLASH ISSUE no. 4, July 1, 1996 --------------------- Electronic newsletter and archiving service on human development issues World Bank Human Development Department (HDD) e-mail: [log in to unmask] http://www.worldbank.org/html/hcovp/hdd/contents.html ========================================================================= GLOBAL BURDEN OF DISEASE AND INJURY SERIES ======================================================================== "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 methods and results of the GBD Study, presenting a portrait of the world's health that is exceptional for its breadth, its level of detail, and its technical rigor. While it minutely examines causes of death, the GBD is unique among studies of health status in its inclusion of non-fatal health outcomes. The resulting statistical tables and in-depth conclusions provide illuminating information of interest to anyone concerned with the 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 objectively determined estimates for widely used, standard epidemiological measures: mortality, incidence, prevalence, duration, average age of onset, and projections of deaths. These data are disaggregated in ten age-sex groups and eight regions. Formatted for readers of English, French or Spanish, this volume's succinctly presented data set is intended for broad use. It should stand as an unparalleled desktop reference for anyone interested in the patterns of disease within populations. To order contact Harvard University Press: Tel: 617-495-2480 Fax: 617-495-8924 , Web order form: http://www.hup.harvard.edu For more information: http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/organizations/bdu/bdu.html ========================================================================== posted by Sam Lanfranco < [log in to unmask] >