Metric partnerships: Global burden of disease estimates within the World Bank, the World Health Organisation and the Institute for health metrics and evaluation .

Wellcome Open Research

Volumn 4, Issue , 2019, Pages

  Tichenor, Marlee ^a   Sridhar, Devi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Estimation; Global burden of disease; Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation; World Bank; World Health Organisation

Indexed keywords

EID: 85065647933     PISSN: None     EISSN: 2398502X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.12688/wellcomeopenres.15011.1     Document Type: Article

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