Developing and evaluating national severity distributions for use in Burden of Disease studies: a case study of cancers in Scotland

Background Increasingly Burden of Disease (BOD) measures are being used to influence policy decisions because they summarise health loss in an equitable manner. An important part of producing non-fatal BOD estimates are severity distributions (SDs). The Global Burden of Disease (GBD) study use the...

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Main Authors: Grant Wyper, Ian Grant, Eilidh Fletcher, Gerry McCartney, Diane Stockton
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Swansea University 2019-11-01
Series:International Journal of Population Data Science
Online Access:https://ijpds.org/article/view/1256