The future excess fraction model for calculating burden of disease
BACKGROUND: Estimates of the burden of disease caused by a particular agent are used to assist in making policy and prioritizing actions. Most estimations have employed the attributable fraction approach, which estimates the proportion of disease cases or deaths in a specific year which are attribut...
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Format: | Journal Article |
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BioMed Central Ltd
2016
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Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/20272 |