Measuring the population burden of injuries - implications for global and national estimates: A multi-centre prospective UK longitudinal study

Ronan Lyons; Denise Kendrick; Elizabeth Towner; Nicola Christie; Steven Macey; Carol Coupland; Belinda Gabbe

doi:10.1371/journal.pmed.1001140

Measuring the population burden of injuries - implications for global and national estimates: A multi-centre prospective UK longitudinal study

Ronan Lyons, Denise Kendrick, Elizabeth Towner, Nicola Christie, Steven Macey, Carol Coupland, Belinda Gabbe

School of Public Health and Preventive Medicine

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Current methods of measuring the population burden of injuries rely on many assumptions and limited data available to the global burden of diseases studies. The aim of this study was to compare the population burden of injuries using different approaches from the UK Burden of Injury and GBD studies.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	1 - 13
Number of pages	13
Journal	PLoS Medicine
Volume	8
Issue number	12 (Art. No: e1001140)
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.1001140
Publication status	Published - 2011

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