Measuring the burden of neglected tropical diseases: The global burden of disease framework

PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases

Volumn 1, Issue 2, 2007, Pages

  Mathers, Colin D ^a   Ezzati, Majid ^b   Lopez, Alan D ^c  

^a WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION   (Switzerland)

^b HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCESS TO INFORMATION; AFRICA SOUTH OF THE SAHARA; BRUGIA MALAYI; CHAGAS DISEASE; DATA ANALYSIS; DEATH; DENGUE; DENGUE VIRUS; DISABILITY; EPIDEMIC ENCEPHALITIS; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL DATA; FILARIASIS; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INFORMATION PROCESSING; JAPANESE ENCEPHALITIS VIRUS; LEISHMANIA; LEISHMANIASIS; LEPROSY; MEDICAL INFORMATION; MEDICAL RESEARCH; METHODOLOGY; MORTALITY; MYCOBACTERIUM LEPRAE; NEMATODE; NEMATODIASIS; ONCHOCERCA; ONCHOCERCIASIS; PATHOGENESIS; POPULATION RESEARCH; QUANTITATIVE STUDY; RELIABILITY; REVIEW; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; SCHISTOSOMA; SCHISTOSOMIASIS; TROPICAL DISEASE; TRYPANOSOMA; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI; TRYPANOSOMIASIS; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION; WUCHERERIA BANCROFTI; COMMUNICABLE DISEASE; COST OF ILLNESS; ECONOMICS; HEALTH; QUALITY ADJUSTED LIFE YEAR; STATISTICS; TROPICAL MEDICINE;

COMMUNICABLE DISEASES; COST OF ILLNESS; HUMANS; QUALITY-ADJUSTED LIFE YEARS; RISK FACTORS; TROPICAL MEDICINE; WORLD HEALTH;

EID: 41849101330     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0000114     Document Type: Review

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