Measuring the Population Burden of Fatal and Nonfatal Injury
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Measuring the population burden of fatal and nonfatal injury.
The value of measuring the population burden of fatal and nonfatal injury is well established. Population health metrics are important for assessing health status and health-related quality of life after injury and for integrating mortality, disability, and quality-of-life consequences. A frequently used population health metric is the disability-adjusted life-year. This metric was launched in ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Epidemiologic Reviews
سال: 2011
ISSN: 0193-936X,1478-6729
DOI: 10.1093/epirev/mxr022