The impact of worldwide, national and sub-national severity distributions in Burden of Disease studies: A case study of cancers in Scotland.

<h4>Background</h4>Increasingly Burden of Disease (BOD) measures are being used to influence policy decisions because they summarise the complete effects of morbidity and mortality in an equitable manner. An important element of producing non-fatal BOD estimates are severity distribution...

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Main Authors: Grant M A Wyper, Ian Grant, Eilidh Fletcher, Gerry McCartney, Diane L Stockton
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2019-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0221026