In 1998-1999 the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare carried out a national study of the burden of disease and injury in Australia,1,2 in close collaboration with the Victorian Department of Human Services, which conducted a parallel analysis concurrently in Victoria.3,4 Here, the principal investigators present the key findings.
Correspondence:
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- Mathers C, Vos T, Stevenson C. The burden of disease and injury inAustralia. Australian Institute of Health and Welfare. Canberra:AIHW, 1999. Also at:<http://www.aihw.gov.au/publications/health/bdia.html>(accessed 12 May 2000).
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- Mathers C, Vos T, Stevenson C. The burden of disease and injury inAustralia summary report. Australian Institute of Health andWelfare. Canberra: AIHW, 1999. Also at:<http://www.aihw.gov.au/publications/health/bdiasr.html>(accessed 12 May 2000).
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- Vos T, Begg S. The Victorian Burden of Disease Study: Mortality.Melbourne: Public Health and Development Division, Department ofHuman Services, 1999. Also at:<http://www.dhs.vic.gov.au/phd/9903009/index.htm>(accessed 12 May 2000).
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- Vos T, Begg S. The Victorian Burden of Disease Study: Morbidity.Melbourne: Public Health Division, Department of Human Services,2000. Also at:<http://www.dhs.vic.gov.au/phd/9909065/index.htm>(accessed 12 May 2000).
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- Murray CJ, Lopez AD. The Global Burden of Disease: a comprehensiveassessment of mortality and disability from diseases, injuries andrisk factors in 1990 and projected to 2020. Vol 1. Cambridge, Mass:Harvard School of Public Health on behalf of the World HealthOrganization and the World Bank, 1996.
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- World Bank. World Development Report 1993: investing in health.New York: Oxford University Press, 1993.
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- Ad Hoc Committee on Health Research Relating to FutureIntervention Options. Investing in health research anddevelopment. Geneva, World Health Organization, 1996.
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- World Health Organization (WHO). The World Health Report 1999.Geneva: WHO, 1999.
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- Stouthard M, Essink-Bot M, Bonsel G, et al. Disability weights fordiseases in the Netherlands. Rotterdam: Department of PublicHealth, Erasmus University, 1997.
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- DisMod [computer program], version 1.0. President and Fellows ofHarvard College. All rights reserved. 1994. The Burden of DiseaseUnit, Harvard University. (This software can be downloaded from theWWW at:<http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/organizations/bdu/dismod/index.htm> (accessed 12 May 2000).
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- English DR, Holman CDJ, Milne E. The quantification of drug causedmorbidity and mortality in Australia, 1995 edition. Canberra:Commonwealth Department of Human Services and Health, 1995.
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- Beaglehole R, Dobson A, Hobbs MS, et al. CHD in Australia and NewZealand. Int J Epidemiol 1989 18 (3 Suppl 1): S145-S148.
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