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The following
volumes of the Global Burden of Disease and Injury Series are
currently available:
- Volume I. The Global
Burden of Disease: A comprehensive assessment of mortality and
disability from diseases, injuries, and risk factors in 1990 and
projected to 2020; (US$45.00)
The Global Burden of
Disease (GBD), a worldwide collaboration of physicians and epidemiologists,
provides epidemiological estimates for 150 major disease and injury
conditions. This volume presents the GBD's methods,
sources, and results, including: disaggegated
death and disability data; projections to the year 2020; and evaluations of
risk factors.
While it examines
minutely causes of death, the GBD is most striking in its inclusion of
disability. The authors here explore the technical bases and moral
implications of incorporating disability in health assessments, explicating
the widely publicized indicator that they have developed, the
disability-adjusted life-year (DALY).
By evaluating along
with death the physical, social, and mental impacts of disease, the GBD
arrives at a vast range of insights. Among these: Depression was the fourth
leading cause of disease-burden in 1990 and by 2020 will be the single
leading cause. Injuries cause over 15% of global death and disability. The
recent threat of HIV will by 2010 inflict as great a disease-burden as the
age-old epidemic tuberculosis. By 2020, tobacco use will be responsible for
9 million deaths annually. Ultimately, pneumonia and diarrhea, both
primarily diseases of childhood, will continue to inflict the greatest
health burden of all.
For anyone interested
in the global and regional dimensions of health, The Global
Burden of Disease holds an indespensible
wealth of analysis and never-before assembled data for use in
health planning, research, and education.
- Volume II. Global
Health Statistics: A Compendium of Incidence, Prevalence, and
Mortality Estimates for Over 200 Conditions; (US$45.00)
The encyclopedic Global
Health Statistics provides, for the first time, epidemiological
estimates for all major diseases and injuries. As part of the Global Burden
of Disease project, over 100 disease experts analyzed these data, collected
from exhasutive searches of registration data and
published and unpublished studies.
Formatted for English,
French and Spanish readers, the figures are displayed in a comprehensive
set of tables, presenting for over 200 causes estimates of mortality,
incidence, prevalence, durations, and average ages of onset in 1990 -- all
disaggregated by age, sex, and region. Demographic tables and projections
of deaths and death rates are also provided.
This succinct data-set
provides to the reader the set of tools necessary to understand disease and
injury from a global perspective; and it provides to the researcher
unprecedented data to serve as a starting point for further study. This
book should stand as an unparalleled desktop reference for anyone
interested in the health of populations.
- Volume III. Health
Dimensions of Sex and Reproduction: the Global Burden of Sexually
Transmitted Diseases, HIV, Maternal Conditions, Perinatal
Disorders, and Congenital Anomalies; (US$49.95)
From the health-risks
of sexual activity to those of pregnancy, abortion and childbirth, reproduction
constitutes enormous risks to a woman's health. Ill-health conditions
related to sex and reproduction account for one-fourth of the global
disease burden in adult women. In sub-Saharan Africa, they account for over 40% of
the disease burden in adult women. The catastrophic effects of reproductive
ill-health, however, are not limited to women; for infants and adult men,
they inflict 25% and 1%, respectively, of the global burden.
This volume offers for
the first time comprehensive data and detailed discussions of the epidemiologies of these conditions. The authors explore
the profiles of three sexually transmitted diseases, HIV, and five specific
maternal conditions, as well as those of congenital anomalies and perinatal conditions. Death and disability from these
causes are evaluated for each sex in ten age groups and eight regions,
allowing meaningful comparisons with other diseases. The threat of HIV is
also discussed and projections of the epidemic are provided: by 2020, HIV
is projected to double to 2.5% of the global disease-burden.
Health Dimensions of
Sex and Reproduction will serve as a comprehensive reference for
epidemiologists, public health specialists, practitioners and advocates of
STD and HIV prevention, and reproductive and neonatal health.
Developing Country
Price. For
residents of developing countries, copies of The Global Burden of
Disease and Global Health Statistics are available at a price of
US$27.00 each plus postage, and copies of Health Dimensions of
Sex and Reproduction are available at a price of US$29.95 each plus
postage. Postage costs depend on location.
Please contact the Burden of Disease Unit for these rates.
To order from within
the US and by credit card:
Contact Harvard University Press:
Order forms:
Harvard University Press
Phone: (800) 448-2242
Fax: (800) 962-4983
email: u_ask_us@hup.harvard.edu
To order from outside
the US:
Contact the Burden
of Disease Unit:
Dan Hogan dhogan@hsph.harvard.edu
Phone: (617) 495-8495
Fax: (617) 496-3227
Please note that the
Burden of Disease Unit can only process orders paid by check or money
order.
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