Assembling GHERG
Could “academic crowd–sourcing” address gaps in global health estimates
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 19550317 |
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| Authors | Igor Rudan (0000-0001-6993-6884, University of Edinburgh), Harry Campbell (0000-0002-6169-6262, University of Edinburgh), Ana Marušić (0000-0001-6272-0917, University of Split), Devi Sridhar (0000-0002-5058-9023, University of Edinburgh), Harish Nair (0000-0002-9432-9100, University of Edinburgh), Davies Adeloye (0000-0003-1316-8139, University of Edinburgh), Evropi Τheodoratou (0000-0001-5887-9132, University of Edinburgh), Evropi Theodoratou, Kit Y Chan (0000-0002-3465-8383, University of Edinburgh) |
| Year | 2015 |
| Volume | 5 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Publication date | 2015-06-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Global Health (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2047-2978 • E-ISSN: 2047-2986 |
| Publisher | International Global Health Society (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.7189/jogh.05.0100101 |
| OpenAlex | W4242997830 |
| Language | EN |
apid development of information technologies in the past two decades has brought about major improvements in the generation, sharing and analysis of information on the health status of the entire human population. This has facilitated the development of the field of "Global Health Metrics", which has its champions in World Health Organization's Mortality and Burden of Disease Unit and University of Washington' s Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME). A number of other groups, initiatives and institutions also contribute substantially to this field and regularly publish population health estimates. These include national epidemiological services, population-specific (eg, occupational, ethnic, age-and gender-defined) and disease-specific registries, academic research groups interested in specific health problems, pro
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| Highly cited | No |
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