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. 2010 Nov 30;7(11):e1001006.
doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.1001006.

The imperfect world of global health estimates

Peter Byass  1
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The imperfect world of global health estimates

Peter Byass. PLoS Med. .

Abstract

Peter Byass provides an introduction to a PLoS Medicine cluster of articles on global health estimates, and argues why the "estimates debate" is so important.

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Conflict of interest statement

The author is a member of the Editorial board of PLoS Medicine, deputy editor of Global Health Action, a member of the editorial board of Population Health Metrics (a journal based at the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation), and a member of the UN Maternal Mortality Estimation Inter-Agency Technical Advisory Group, hosted by WHO, Geneva. He has visited the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, Seattle, at their expense.

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Figure 1. Approaches to global estimates by UN agencies and academic groups.
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