Croaky Posts A Fascinating Article On How To Make The Absolute Most Of The Health Data You Have!

This appeared last week:Using the data revolution to agitate for health policyEditor: Dr Ruth Armstrong Author: Alan Lopez on: September 15, 2017 In: global health, health inequalities, public health, rural and remote healthA themed edition of The Lancet, published today, marks the 20th anniversary of the Global Burden of Disease (GBD) study, and presents the findings for 2016.Over the years, you will have seen much of the output of this study, which is the world ’s largest scientific collaboration on population health, currently including data from more than 130 countries and territories.The study tracks life expectancy and mortality, causes of death, overall disease burden, years lived with disability and risk factors that lead to health loss, allowing g lobal and national health bodies to focus their efforts in the right directions.But it can’t track data that is not collected.In the post below, one of the founders of the GBD study, Laureate Professor Alan Lopez AC explains how... This is the initial part of the post - read more by clicking on the title of the article. David.
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