Measuring the burden of disease: Healthy life-years

American Journal of Public Health

Volumn 88, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 196-202

  Hyder, Adnan A ^a   Rotllant, Guida ^a   Morrow, Richard H ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMMUNICABLE DISEASE; DISABILITY; HUMAN; MATERNAL DISEASE; MORTALITY; QUALITY ADJUSTED LIFE YEAR;

EID: 0031892566     PISSN: 00900036     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2105/AJPH.88.2.196     Document Type: Article

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