Aging, transition, and estimating the global burden of disease.

The World Health Organization's Global Burden of Disease (GBD) reports are an important tool for global health policy makers, however the accuracy of estimates for countries undergoing an epidemiologic transition is unclear. We attempted to validate the life table model used to generate estimat...

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Main Authors: Benjamin J Seligman, Mark R Cullen, Ralph I Horwitz
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2011-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3101233?pdf=render