Showing papers by "Michel Guillot published in 1999"
TL;DR: The authors' estimates are crude, but despite their limitations, they give a more accurate picture of changes in attributable mortality among the world's poor than do the global averages in current use.
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01 Dec 1999
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors provided information about the burden of disease among the poor members of society, and the 1990 situation and the projected trends between 1990 and 2020, with the focus on the poor.
Abstract: This paper provides information about the burden of disease among the poor members of society. It is designed to complement the data about society as a whole that have been the principal focus of most burden of disease work to date. The information presented here deals with the 1990 situation and with projected trends between 1990 and 2020. The 1990 Situation. Communicable diseases are considerably more important for the world's poor than global averages suggest. Non-communicable diseases are correspondingly less important. For example: Communicable diseases cause 59 percent of deaths and 64 percent of DALY (disability-adjusted life year) loss among the 20 percent of the global population living in countries with the lowest per capita incomes, compared with 34 percent of deaths and 44 percent of DALY loss among the entire global population. o Communicable diseases are responsible for 77 percent of the mortality gap and 79 percent of the DALY gap between the world's poorest and richest 20 percent, compared with 15 percent and 9 percent attributable to non-communicable diseases.
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