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The Global Burden of Disease 2000 in Aging Populations
is a program project supported by the National Institute on Aging
at the National Institutes of Health. This program project is a coherent series of investigations that
strengthens the methodological and empirical basis for undertaking
comparative assessments of health problems, their determinants and
consequences in aging populations. Since the publication of the
Global Burden of Disease Study 1990, there has been increasing
interest in comparative analyses of health outcomes, determinants
and consequences. The World Health Organization is committed to
undertaking a major revision of the Global Burden of Disease Study
for the year 2000. This program project strengthens the
scientific basis for this large-scale undertaking. It is structured
around a core with an administrative, a data management and a
methods component and seven projects:
The core and the seven projects enrich each other through
multiple mechanisms, including investigators working on a number of
components, common datasets and methods development. A key strength of
the program is the close partnership between the lead institution and
the World Health Organization, assuring the close coordination of the
research work in the program through key personnel. An important goal
of the project is to expand the number of researchers
worldwide focused on health conditions, determinants and consequences in
aging populations, while, at the same time strengthening the empirical
and methodological foundations on which policy decisions are made.
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