Global Burden of Disease

A comprehensive assessment of mortality and disability from diseases, injuries, and risk factors in 1990 and projected to 2020

Edited by Christopher J. L. Murray

Edited by Alan D. Lopez

    LIST OF TABLES

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    GLOBAL BURDEN OF DISEASE AND INJURY SERIES FOREWORD Ralph H. Henderson

    GLOBAL BURDEN OF DISEASE AND INJURY SERIES FOREWORD Dean T. Jamison

    FOREWORD William H. Foege

    PREFACE

    ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

    1. RETHINKING DALYS Christopher J.L. Murray

    I 2. NON-FATAL HEALTH OUTCOMES: CONCEPTS,INSTRUMENTS AND INDICATORS Ann Goerdt, Jeff P. Kaplan, Jean-Marie Robine, Michel C. Thuriaux, Jerome K. van Ginneken

    3. ESTIMATING CAUSES OF DEATH: NEW METHODS AND GLOBAL AND REGIONAL APPLICATIONS FOR 1990 Christopher J.L. Murray, Alan D. Lopez

    4. GLOBAL AND REGIONAL DESCRIPTIVE EPIDEMIOLOGY OF DISABILITY: INCIDENCE, PREVALENCE, HEALTH EXPECTANCIES AND YEARS LIVED WITH DISABILITY Christopher J.L. Murray, Alan D. Lopez

    5. THE GLOBAL BURDEN OF DISEASE IN 1990: FINAL RESULTS AND THEIR SENSITIVITY TO ALTERNATIVE EPIDEMIOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVES, DISCOUNT RATES, AGE- WEIGHTS AND DISABILITY WEIGHTS Christopher J.L. Murray, Alan D. Lopez

    6. QUANTIFYING THE BURDEN OF DISEASE AND INJURY ATTRIBUTABLE TO TEN MAJOR RISK FACTORS Christopher J.L. Murray, Alan D. Lopez

    7. ALTERNATIVE VISIONS OF THE FUTURE: PROJECTING MORTALITY AND DISABILITY, 1990-2020 Christopher J.L. Murray, Alan D. Lopez

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Christopher Murray is Associate Professor of International Health Economics at the Harvard School of Public Health.

Alan Lopez is a scientist in the Programme on Substance Abuse at the World Health Organization, Geneva.