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Quantifying the future impact of disease on society: life table-based measures of potential life lost.

Author(s) -

WenChung Lee

Publication year - 1997

Publication title -

american journal of public health

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 2.284

H-Index - 264

eISSN - 1541-0048

pISSN - 0090-0036

DOI - 10.2105/ajph.87.9.1456

Subject(s) - table (database) , years of potential life lost , index (typography) , population , disease , burden of disease , gerontology , environmental health , risk analysis (engineering) , medicine , computer science , life expectancy , data mining , pathology , world wide web

Quantifying health status in human populations by means of an index such as "years of potential life lost" has recently received attention. However, such an index, being cross-sectional in nature, only measures the current burden to society resulting from a specific cause of death.

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