The Imperfect World of Global Health Estimates

Open Access

30 November 2010

journal article
Published by Public Library of Science (PLoS) in PLoS Medicine

Vol. 7 (11), e1001006
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.1001006

Abstract

Peter Byass provides an introduction to a PLoS Medicine cluster of articles on global health estimates, and argues why the "estimates debate" is so important.

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