The burden of disease and the changing task of medicine

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 366, Issue 25, 2012, Pages 2333-2338

  Jones, David S ^a,d   Podolsky, Scott H ^a,b   Greene, Jeremy A ^a,c,d  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b Francis Countway Library of Medicine   (United States)

^c BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^d HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISEASE BURDEN; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE SURVEILLANCE; EPIDEMIC; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH PROGRAM; HISTORY OF MEDICINE; HUMAN; LIFE EXPECTANCY; MEDICAL LITERATURE; MEDICAL PRACTICE; MEDICAL RESEARCH; MORTALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLIC HEALTH; SHORT SURVEY;

EID: 84862534303     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: 15334406     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJMp1113569     Document Type: Article

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