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- Title
Mortality by cause for eight regions of the world: Global Burden of Disease Study.
- Authors
Murray, C J; Lopez, A D
- Abstract
Reliable information on causes of death is essential to the development of national and international health policies for prevention and control of disease and injury. Medically certified information is available for less than 30% of the estimated 50.5 million deaths that occur each year worldwide. However, other data sources can be used to develop cause-of-death estimates for populations. To be useful, estimates must be internally consistent, plausible, and reflect epidemiological characteristics suggested by community-level data. The Global Burden of Disease Study (GBD) used various data sources and made corrections for miscoding of important diseases (eg, ischaemic heart disease) to estimate worldwide and regional cause-of-death.patterns in 1990 for 14 age-sex groups in eight regions, for 107 causes.
- Publication
Lancet (London, England), 1997, Vol 349, Issue 9061, p1269
- ISSN
0140-6736
- Publication type
Journal Article
- DOI
10.1016/S0140-6736(96)07493-4