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RESEARCH ARTICLE

2. A brief history of burden of disease studies

Doug Lincoln and David Muscatello

New South Wales Public Health Bulletin Supplementary Series 13(5) 11 - 12
Published: 2002

Abstract

This chapter outlines the motivations of the first global burden of disease study and the development of the DALY measure of disease burden. Some of the subsequent studies are briefly described, including those conducted or being conducted in Australia.

https://doi.org/10.1071/NB02S55

© NSW Department of Health 2002

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