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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Main Authors: Fritschi, Lin, Chan, J., Hutchings, S., Driscoll, T., Wong, A., Carey, Renee
Format: Journal Article
Published: BioMed Central Ltd 2016
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/20272