The Global Burden of Disease assessments - WHO is responsible?

PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases

Volumn 1, Issue 3, 2007, Pages

  Stein, Claudia ^a   Kuchenmüller, Tanja ^a   Henrickx, Saskia ^a   Prüss Üstün, Annette ^a   Wolfson, Lara ^a   Engels, Dirk ^a   Schlundt, Jørgen ^a  

^a WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME; CHILD HEALTH; COOPERATION; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; DISABILITY; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FOODBORNE DISEASE; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; LEADERSHIP; MALARIA; MEDICAL ASSESSMENT; MEDICAL INFORMATION; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; NONBIOLOGICAL MODEL; REVIEW; TROPICAL DISEASE; VACCINATION; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COST OF ILLNESS; ENDEMIC DISEASE; FOOD POISONING;

COST OF ILLNESS; ENDEMIC DISEASES; FOODBORNE DISEASES; HUMANS; MALARIA; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

EID: 45549094925     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0000161     Document Type: Review

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