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- Title
Reducing the global burden of musculoskeletal conditions.
- Authors
Briggs, Andrew M.; Woolf, Anthony D.; Dreinhöfer, Karsten; Homb, Nicole; Hoy, Damian G.; Kopansky Giles, Deborah; Åkesson, Kristina; March, Lyn
- Abstract
The authors convey their concerns on reducing the global burden of musculoskeletal conditions. Topics mentioned include the estimated number of diagnoses in musculoskeletal conditions that affect the locomotor system, the rise in the burden of such conditions observed in low-income settings, and the 2016 Global Burden of Disease data for non-communicable diseases.
- Subjects
INTEGRATED health care delivery; MUSCULOSKELETAL system diseases; NUTRITION; OSTEOARTHRITIS; POPULATION; DISEASE complications; DISEASE risk factors
- Publication
Bulletin of the World Health Organization, 2018, Vol 96, Issue 5, p366
- ISSN
0042-9686
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.2471/BLT.17.204891