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Disability-adjusted life years (DALYs) for 291 diseases and injuries in 21 regions, 1990-2010: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2010.
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BACKGROUND: Measuring disease and injury burden in populations requires a composite metric that captures both premature mortality and the prevalence and severity of ill-health. The 1990 Global Burden of Disease study proposed disability-adjusted life years (DALYs) to measure disease burden. No comprehensive update of disease burden worldwide incorporating a systematic reassessment of disease and injury-specific epidemiology has been done since the 1990 study. We aimed to calculate disease bur...
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- Publication status:
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- Journal:
- Lancet (London, England)
- Volume:
- 380
- Issue:
- 9859
- Pages:
- 2197-2223
- Publication date:
- 2012-12-01
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- EISSN:
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1474-547X
- ISSN:
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0140-6736
- Source identifiers:
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368705
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- English
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- 2012
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