Health, well-being, and measuring the burden of disease

<p>Abstract</p> <p>This essay asks whether the global burden of diseases, injuries, and risk factors (GBD) should be measured in terms of their consequences for health, as maintained by most of those who are attempting to measure the GBD, or in terms of their consequences for well-...

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Main Author: Hausman Daniel M
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2012-08-01
Series:Population Health Metrics
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Online Access:http://www.pophealthmetrics.com/content/10/1/13