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Global Burden of Disease and Risk Factors (Lopez, Global Burden of Diseases and Risk Factors) 1st Edition
Author: Alan D. Lopez ID: 0821362623

Series: Lopez, Global Burden of Diseases and Risk FactorsHardcover: 552 pagesPublisher: World Bank Publications; 1 edition (April 2, 2006)Language: EnglishISBN-10: 0821362623ISBN-13: 978-0821362624 Product Dimensions: 11.2 x 1.5 x 8.8 inches Shipping Weight: 3.6 pounds (View shipping rates and policies) Best Sellers Rank: #780,770 in Books (See Top 100 in Books) #381 in Books > Textbooks > Medicine & Health Sciences > Research > Epidemiology #560 in Books > Medical Books > Administration & Medicine Economics > Public Health > Epidemiology #594 in Books > Reference > Encyclopedias & Subject Guides > Medical

Across the entire world, for both developed and developing countries, the book’s authors study the cost of diseases to the societies in which these occur. The idea is to quantify, as much as possible, what the actual costs are. And also how the diseases might most effectively be fought. To this ends, the various risk factors that lead an individual to catch a disease are looked at. Some of these are due to personal choice, like smoking. Or unsafe sex. Other risk factors tend to be more environmental, where a person’s actions might have less correlation to catching a disease.

One use of the book is for governments to assess how best to spend what are invariably limited resources (like money and skilled people), against which diseases and risk factors.
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