Global Burden of Disease Study 2010: A Comparative Risk Assessment

Published By: The Lancet | Published Date: December, 13 , 2012

GBD 2010 provides an opportunity to re-assess the evidence for exposure and effect sizes of risks for a broad set of risk factors by use of a common framework and methods. The basic approach for the GBD 2010 comparative risk assessment is to calculate the proportion of deaths or disease burden caused by specific risk factors holding other independent factors unchanged.

Author(s): Stephen S Lim, Theo Vos, Abraham D Flaxman | Posted on: Feb 24, 2014 | Views(524) | Download (627)


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