Reflections on the Global Burden of Disease 2010 Estimates

PLoS Medicine

Volumn 10, Issue 7, 2013, Pages

  Byass, Peter ^a,b   de Courten, Maximilian ^c   Graham, Wendy J ^d   Laflamme, Lucie ^e   McCaw Binns, Affette ^f   Sankoh, Osman A ^b,g,h   Tollman, Stephen M ^a,b,g   Zaba, Basia ⁱ  

^a UMEÅ UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

^e KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^f UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST INDIES   (Jamaica)

^g Studies of the Epidemiology of Epilepsy in Demographic Surveillance Systems   (Ghana)

^h HANOI MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Viet Nam)

ⁱ LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME; ARTICLE; DEATH; DIABETES MELLITUS; DISEASE SURVEILLANCE; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; INJURY; MEDICAL INFORMATION SYSTEM; MORTALITY; NON COMMUNICABLE DISEASE; PREVALENCE; RISK FACTOR;

EID: 84881243945     PISSN: 15491277     EISSN: 15491676     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pmed.1001477     Document Type: Article

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