books by Alan D. Lopez     books:     Alan D. Lopez      Summary Measures of Population Health: Concepts, Ethics, Measurement and Application World Health Organization, 2002 With increasing life expectancy, measuring population health levels on the basis of mortality rates alone has become less and less relevant in many populations. At the same time, societies invest substantial resources in promoting healthy life, in addition to preventing premature death. But how effective have these efforts been? What is ...             Global Burden of Disease: A comprehensive assessment of mortality and disability from diseases, injuries, and ... Harvard School of Public Health, 1996 The Global Burden of Disease and Injury Series details and analyzes global patterns of death and disability, providing a bold, comprehensive examination of the state of the world's health. The Global Burden of Disease (GBD) provides systematic epidemiological estimates for an unprecedented 150 major health conditions. Its methods and ...             Health Dimensions of Sex and Reproduction: The Global Burden of Sexually Transmitted Diseases, HIV, Maternal ... School of Public Health, 1998 From the health risks of sexual activity to those of pregnancy, abortion, and childbirth, reproduction constitutes enormous risks to a woman's health. Ill-health conditions related to sex and reproduction account for 25 percent of the global disease burden in adult women. In sub-Saharan Africa, they account for over 40 percent. The catastrophic ...             World Mortality in 2000 Alan D. Lopez, O.B. Ahmad, ... World Health Organization, 2002 Reliable information on the numbers of people who die in various countries according to age and sex is a fundamental requirement for setting health priorities and evaluation health programmes. Mortality levels and trends have been monitored in some countries for centuries, while in others, particularly in Sub-Saharan Africa, little is currently ...             Global Burden of Disease and Risk Factors (Lopez, Global Burden of Diseases and Risk Factors) World Bank Publications, 2006 find the costs and causes of diseases Across the entire world, for both developed and developing countries, the book's authors study the cost of diseases to the societies in which these occur. The idea is to quantify, as much as possible, what the actual costs are. And also how the diseases might most ...             Global Health Statistics: A Compendium of Incidence, Prevalence and Mortality Estimates for Over 200 ... Harvard School of Public Health, 1996 The Global Burden of Disease and Injury Series details and analyzes global patterns of death and disability, providing a bold, comprehensive examination of the state of the world's health. The encyclopedic Global Health Statistics provides, for the first time, epidemiological estimates for all major diseases and injuries. As part of the ...             Adult Mortality in Developed Countries: From Description to Explanation (International Studies in Demography) Oxford University Press, USA, 1995 With sharp declines in infant and child mortality during the twentieth century, virtually all deaths in developed countries now occur among adults. This volume looks at the causes of adult mortality, focusing particularly on socioeconomic factors. It goes beyond description of the observed differences in the level of mortality within and among ...             Health and Mortality among Elderly Populations (International Studies in Demography) Oxford University Press, USA, 1996 In both developed and developing countries, the elderly have enjoyed significant declines in mortality and increased survival. At the same time, these trends have also given rise to many uncertainties and demands on resources which are often not given their due attention. Future mortality declines, particularly among the elderly, are often ...             Mortality from Smoking in Developed Countries, 1950-2000: Indirect Estimates from National Statistics (Oxford ... Richard Peto, Alan D. Lopez, ... Oxford University Press, USA, 1995 Recent studies have shown that in developed countries, smokers are more likely to die before age 70 than are non-smokers, and the proportion is increasing. For each major developed country, and for various groups of such countries, tables and graphs are provided that describe the extent to which smoking is now causing death in middle and in old ...             U.S. GOVERNMENT AGENCIES: An entry from Macmillan Reference USA's Encyclopedia of Drugs, Alcohol and ... RICHARD L. WILLIAMS, ELAINE JOHNSON, ... Macmillan Reference USA, 2001 This second edition of the ?Encyclopedia of Drugs, Alcohol, and Addictive Behavior? reflects changes in the attitudes about, use, and knowledge of drugs and alcohol since the first edition published in 1995. These changes include the decrease of crack cocaine use and resurgence of heroin use; changes in laws dealing with drug use (on both the ...             West Nile virus isolation in human and mosquitoes, Mexico.(DISPATCHES): An article from: Emerging Infectious ... Darwin Elizondo-Quiroga, C. Todd Davis, ... Thomson Gale, 2005 This digital document is an article from Emerging Infectious Diseases, published by Thomson Gale on September 1, 2005. The length of the article is 2714 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. 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