The global burden of disease
Subtitle: a comprehensive assessment of mortality and disability from diseases, injuries, and risk factors in 1990 and projected to 2020
By: edited by Christopher J.L. Murray, Alan D. Lopez.
Contributors: Murray, Christopher J. L.; Lopez, Alan D.; Harvard School of Public Health.; World Health Organization.; World Bank.
Series: Global burden of disease and injury series -- v. 1.; Global burden of disease and injury series -- 1.
Publisher: Published by the Harvard School of Public Health on behalf of the World Health Organization and the World Bank; Distributed by Harvard University Press
Published: 1996
Place of publication: [Cambridge, Mass.]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 990
Subjects: World health -- Statistics
Genres: Statistics.
Notes: Map on lining papers.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Rethinking DALYs; title: Non-fatal health outcomes: concepts, instruments and indicators; title: Estimating causes of death: new methods and global and regional applications for 1990; title: Global and regional descriptive epidemiology of disability: incidence, prevalence, health expectancies and years lived with disability; title: The global burden of disease in 1990: final results and their sensitivity to alternative epidemiological perspectives, discount rates, age-weights and disability weights; title: Quantifying the burden of disease and injury attributable to ten major risk factors; title: Alternative visions of the future: projecting mortality and disability, 1990-2020; title: Annex tables; title: Index.