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Quantifying burden of disease to support public health policy in Belgium: opportunities and constraints

BACKGROUND: To support public health policy, information on the burden of disease is essential. In recent years, the Disability-Adjusted Life Year (DALY) has emerged as the most important summary measure of public health. DALYs quantify the number of healthy life years lost due to morbidity and mort...

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Autores principales: Devleesschauwer, Brecht, Maertens de Noordhout, Charline, Smit, G Suzanne A, Duchateau, Luc, Dorny, Pierre, Stein, Claudia, Van Oyen, Herman, Speybroeck, Niko
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2014
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4246467/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25416547
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2458-14-1196