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	Global Burden of Disease and Risk Factors (Lopez, Global Burden of Diseases and Risk Factors) World Bank Publications, 2006 - 552 pages average customer review:based on 1 review view larger image
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Over the past ten years, methodological development to measure disease burden, new data sets for large populations (eg. Tanzania, South Africa) and research to critically evaluate existing data sets (eg. China) have greatly increased the potential to measure disease burden more reliable in all regions of the world. Yet, to date, this research does not exist in one consolidated form. There is neither a comprehensive presentation of new methods, data sets and their evaluation, nor is there a single compilation of the enormous amount of epidemiological detail by age, sex, cause, sequelae and region of the deaths and DALYs for the year 2000. This publication of the results of the Global Burden of Disease 2001 Study, and the CRA Study, by detailed age, sex, cause, region and risk factor will provide a unique description, in one volume, of the entire global epidemiology of diseases, injuries, and risk factors at the turn of the 21st century. This will be an invaluable resource for global and regional health policy for decades to come.

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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 effectively be fought. To this ends, the various risk factors that lead an individual to catch a disease are looked at. Some of these are due to personal choice, like smoking. Or unsafe sex. Other risk factors tend to be more environmental, where a person's actions might have less correlation to catching a disease.

One use of the book is for governments to assess how best to spend what are invariably limited resources (like money and skilled people), against which diseases and risk factors.

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