Reflections on the Global Burden of Disease 2010 Estimates
Open Access
- 2 July 2013
- journal article
- Published by Public Library of Science (PLoS) in PLoS Medicine
- Vol. 10 (7), e1001477
- https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.1001477
Abstract
Peter Byass and colleagues raise questions about the recent, high-profile Global Burden of Disease estimates. Please see later in the article for the Editors' SummaryThis publication has 17 references indexed in Scilit:
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