TY  - BOOK
AU  - Eyal, Nir
TI  - Measuring the global burden of disease: philosophical dimensions 
T2  - Population level bioethics series
SN  - 9780190082550
AV  - RA441 
U1  - 362.1072 23
KW  - World health
KW  - Research
KW  - Diseases
KW  - Philosophy
KW  - fast
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index
N2  - "In this volume, a group of leading philosophers, economists, epidemiologists, and policy scholars continue a twenty-year discussion of philosophical questions connected to the Global Burden of Disease Study (GBD), one of the largest-scale research collaborations in global health. Chapters explore issues in ethics, political philosophy, metaphysics, the philosophy of economics, and the philosophy of medicine. Some chapters identify previously-unappreciated aspects of the GBD, including the way it handles causation and aggregates complex data; while others offer fresh perspectives on frequently-discussed topics such as discounting, age-weighting, and the valuation of health states. The volume concludes with a set of chapters discussing how epidemiological data should and shouldn't be used"--
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