1. Originally incorporated into the World Development Report 1993, published for the World Bank by Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1993. The main recent methodological source book is Murray, C.J.L. and Lopez, A.D. (eds) The Global Burden of Disease, published by The Harvard School of Public Health on behalf of The World Health Organization and The World Bank, 1996, and distributed by Harvard University Press. Some of the results of the study were recently published in The Lancet 349 in four articles each authored by Murray, C.J.L. and Lopez, A.D. as follows: Mortality by cause for eight regions of the world: Global Burden of Disease Study, 1269-1276; Regional patterns of disability-free life expectancy and disability-adjusted life expectancy: Global Burden of Disease Study, 1347-1352; Global mortality, disability, and the contribution of risk factors: Global Burden of Disease Study, 1436-1442; and Alternative projections of mortality and disability by cause 1990-2020: Global Burden of Disease Study, 1498-1504.
2. See for instance the recent review by Gold, M.R. et al. ‘Identifying and valuing outcomes’, In Gold, M.R. et al., (eds) Cost-Effectiveness in Health and Medicine, New York: Oxford University Press, 1996, chapter 4, pp. 82-134.
3. See for instance the data cited in the World Development Report, pp. 34-35 (see [1] above) and especially Figure 1.9.
4. See for instance van Doorslaer, E. et al., Income-related inequlities in health: some international comparisons. Journal of Health Economics 1997; 16: 93-112.
5. See for instance Murray, C.J.L. and Lopez, A.D. The Global Burden of Disease, 1996, pp. 19-22.