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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.
The Bergamo Music Festival and director Matteo Ricchetti teamed up
for this 2006 production of Gaetano Donizetti's 1837 opera Roberto
Devereaux, with Dimitra Theodossiou, Andrew Schroeder and Federica
Bragaglia as the three leads. The Orchestra and Chorus of the
Bergamo Music Festival provide accompaniment, under the leadership
of Marcello Rota.
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