Background. While there is a long history of measuring death and disability from injuries, modern research methods must account for the wide spectrum of disability that can occur in an injury, and must provide estimates with sufficient demographic, geographical and temporal detail to be useful for policy makers. The Global Burden of Disease (GBD) 2017 study used methods to provide highly detailed estimates of g...
Background Past research in population health trends has shown that injuries form a substantial burden of population health loss. Regular updates to injury burden assessments are critical. We report Global Burden of Disease (GBD) 2017 Study estimates on morbidity and mortality for all injuries. Methods We reviewed results for injuries from the GBD 2017 study. GBD 2017 measured injury-specific mortality and year...
As autoras fazem uma revisão da caracterização e intervenção na fase prodómica da psicose de acordo com alguns grupos de trabalho empenhados no estudo dos modelos de intervenção precoce na psicose e sua aplicação. As autoras salientam a importância do estabelecimento de critérios operacionais da população em risco de desenvolver um primeiro surto psicótico, no sentido da minimização dos custos da psicose e melh...