The global burden of disease: a comprehensive assessment of mortality and disability from diseases injuries and risk factors in 1990 and projected to 2020.
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...The Global Burden of Disease Study (2, 21, 22) has projected that COPD, which ranked sixth as the cause of death in 1990, will become the third leading cause of death worldwide by 2020....
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...The Global Burden of Disease Study projected that COPD, which ranked sixth as a cause of death in 1990, will become the third leading cause of death worldwide by 2020; a newer projection estimated COPD will be the fourth leading cause of death in 2030 (11)....
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...Following Murray and Lopez, we use the average number of years of schooling of the population above the age of 25 to reflect average education levels, and. refer to this variable as “human capital”....
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...Following Murray and Lopez, we used calendar year as a proxy measure of the impact of technological change on health status....
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...These assessments use a health gap measure, the DALY, developed by Murray and Lopez [30] to quantify the equivalent years of full health lost due to diseases and injury in WHO member states....
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...These assessments use a health gap measure, the Disability Adjusted Life Year (DALY), developed by Murray and Lopez [33] to quantify the equivalent years of full health lost due to diseases and injury in WHO Member States....
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...Murray and Lopez used a variety of econometric approaches to estimate the equations of this form, including methods which take into account auto-correlation and heteroscedasticity....
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