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Mathers CD, Sadana R, Salomon JA, Murray CJ, Lopez AD. Healthy life expectancy in 191 countries, 1999. Lancet, 2001, 357(9269): 1685-91.

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Mullahy J. Live long, live well: quantifying the health of heterogeneous populations. Health Economics, 2001, 10(5): 429-40.
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Murray CJ, Lopez AD. Progress and directions in refining the global burden of disease approach: a response to Williams. Health Economics, 2000, 9(1): 69-82.
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new.gif (160 bytes)Murray CJL, Salomon JA, Mathers CD, Lopez AD, eds. Summary Measures of Population Health: Concepts, Ethics, Measurements and Applications. 2002. Geneva, World Health Organization.
Oswaldo Cruz Foundation and The Brazilian Ministry of Health. Report of the workshop "Health Systems Performance: The World Health Report 2000", Rio de Janiero, 14-15 December 2000.

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World Health Organization. The methods and data used in the World Health Report 2000: A response to the commentary made by the Brazilian delegation to the Executive Board, 17 and 19 January 2001. (This is also a response to the report listed above from the Rio de Janeiro conference on the WHR2000.)
Williams A. Science or Marketing at WHO? A Commentary on 'World Health 2000'. Health Economics, 2000, 10(2): 93-100.
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Murray CJ, Frenk J, Evans D, Kawabata K, Lopez A, Adams O. Science or marketing at WHO? A response to Williams. Health Economics, 2001, 10(4): 277-82.
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Williams A. Science or marketing at WHO? Rejoinder from Alan Williams. Health Economics, 2001, 10(4): 283-5.
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GPE discussion papers. For a complete list, click here.

Murray CJL, Salomon JA, Mathers C. A critical examination of summary measures of population health. Global Programme on Evidence for Health Policy Discussion Paper Series: No. 2. World Health Organization.
Murray CJL, Ahmad OB, Lopez AD, Salomon JA. WHO system of model life tables. Global Programme on Evidence for Health Policy Discussion Paper Series: No. 8. World Health Organization.
Lopez AD, Salomon J, Ahmad O, Murray CJL, Mafat D. Life tables for 191 countries: Data, methods, and results. Global Programme on Evidence for Health Policy Discussion Paper Series: No. 9. World Health Organization.
Salomon JA, Murray CJL. Compositional models for mortality by age, sex, and cause. Global Programme on Evidence for Health Policy Discussion Paper Series: No. 11. World Health Organization.
Sadana R, Mathers CD, Lopez AD, Murray CJL, Iburg K. Comparative analyses of more than 50 household surveys on health status. Global Programme on Evidence for Health Policy Discussion Paper Series: No. 15. World Health Organization.
Mathers CD, Sadana R, Salomon JA, Murray CJL, Lopez AD. Estimates of DALE for 191 countries: methods and results. Global Programme on Evidence for Health Policy Discussion Paper Series: No. 16. World Health Organization.
Ahmad OB, Boschi-Pinto C, Lopez AD, Murray CJL, Lozano R, Inoue M. Age standardization of rates: a new WHO standard. Global Programme on Evidence for Health Policy Discussion Paper Series: No. 31. World Health Organization.
Murray CJL, Tandon A, Salomon J, Mathers CD. Enhancing cross-population comparability of survey results. Global Programme on Evidence for Health Policy Discussion Paper Series: No. 35. World Health Organization.
Üstün TB, Chatterji S, Villanueva M, Bendib L, Celik C, Sadana R, Valentine N, Ortiz J, Tandon A, Salomon J, Cao Y, Wan Jun X, Özaltin E, Mathers C, Murray CJL. WHO Multi-country Survey Study on Health and Responsiveness. Global Programme on Evidence for Health Policy Discussion Paper Series: No. 37. World Health Organization.
Murray CJL, Ferguson BD, Lopez AD, Guillot M, Salomon JA, Ahmad O. Modified Logit Life Table System: Principles, Empirical Validation and Application. Global Programme on Evidence for Health Policy Discussion Paper Series: No. 39. World Health Organization.
Lopez AD, Ahmad OB, Guillot M, Inoue M, Ferguson BD, Salomon JA. Life tables for 191 countries for 2000: data, methods, results. Global Programme on Evidence for Health Policy Discussion Paper Series: No. 40. World Health Organization.
Sadana R, Tandon A, Murray CJL, Serdobova I, Cao Y, Wan Jun X, Chatterji S, Üstün TB. Describing population health in six domains: comparable results from 66 household surveys. Global Programme on Evidence for Health Policy Discussion Paper Series: No. 43. World Health Organization.
Mathers CD, Stein C, Ma Fat D, Rao C, Inoue M, Tomijima N, Bernard C, Lopez AD, Murray CJL. Global Burden of Disease 2000: Version 2 methods and results. Global Programme on Evidence for Health Policy Discussion Paper Series: No. 50. World Health Organization.

 

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