The impact of infection on population health: results of the Ontario burden of infectious diseases study.

The impact of infection on population health: results of the Ontario burden of infectious diseases study.

Evidence-based priority setting is increasingly important for rationally distributing scarce health resources and for guiding future health research. We sought to quantify the contribution of a wide range of infectious diseases to the overall infectious disease burden in a high-income setting.We use...

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Main Authors: Jeffrey C Kwong, Sujitha Ratnasingham, Michael A Campitelli, Nick Daneman, Shelley L Deeks, Douglas G Manuel, Vanessa G Allen, Ahmed M Bayoumi, Aamir Fazil, David N Fisman, Andrea S Gershon, Effie Gournis, E Jenny Heathcote, Frances B Jamieson, Prabhat Jha, Kamran M Khan, Shannon E Majowicz, Tony Mazzulli, Allison J McGeer, Matthew P Muller, Abhishek Raut, Elizabeth Rea, Robert S Remis, Rita Shahin, Alissa J Wright, Brandon Zagorski, Natasha S Crowcroft
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2012-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3433488?pdf=render

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