Measuring the Global Burden of Disease - Philosophical Dimensions (Hardcover)

The Global Burden of Disease Study (GBD) is one of the largest-scale research collaborations in global health, distilling a wide range of health information to provide estimates and projections for more than 350 diseases, injuries, and risk factors in 195 countries. Its results are a critical tool informing researchers, policy-makers, and others working to promote health around the globe. A study like the GBD is, of course, extremely complex from an empirical perspective. But it also raises a large number of complex ethical and philosophical questions that have been explored in a series of collaborations over the past twenty years among epidemiologists, philosophers, economists, and policy scholars. The essays in this volume address issues of current and urgent concern to the GBD and other epidemiological studies, including rival understandings of causation, the aggregation of complex health data, temporal discounting, age-weighting, and the valuation of health states. The volume concludes with a set of chapters discussing how epidemiological data should and should not be used. Better appreciating the philosophical dimensions of a study like the GBD can make possible a more sophisticated interpretation of its results, and it can improve epidemiological studies in the future, so that they are better suited to produce results that can help us to improve global health.

General

Imprint:	Oxford UniversityPress
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	Population-Level Bioethics
Release date:	July 2020
Editors:	Nir Eyal (Professor of Global Health and Population) • Samia A. Hurst (Director of the Ethics Institute) • Christopher J.L. Murray (Professor of Global Health) • S. Andrew Schroeder (Associate Professor of Philosophy) • Daniel Wikler (Mary B. Saltonstall Professor of Ethics and Population Health)
Dimensions:	242 x 162 x 30mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	328
ISBN-13:	978-0-19-008254-3
Categories:	Books > Medicine > General issues > Medical ethics Books > Medicine > General issues > Public health & preventive medicine > Epidemiology & medical statistics Books > Humanities > Philosophy > Topics in philosophy > Ethics & moral philosophy > General Books > Medicine > General issues > Public health & preventive medicine > Personal & public health > General Books > Philosophy > Topics in philosophy > Ethics & moral philosophy > General
LSN:	0-19-008254-2
Barcode:	9780190082543

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