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Estimation of Cardiovascular Diseases Morbidity Using Mortality Data

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Data on the incidence and prevalence of diseases provide an essential basis for several sanitary and epidemiological purposes. Unfortunately, official routine statistics provide little, if any, reliable information on incidence and prevalence. The estimation of such indexes on the basis of other indirect statistics, such as mortality, can therefore be of great use.

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  1. Laboratory of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Instituto Superiore di Sanità, Rome, Italy

    A. Verdecchia, R. Capocaccia & S. Mariotti

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  1. MEDIS — Institut für Medizinische Informatik und Systemforschung, Gesellschaft für Strahlen- und Umweltforschung mbH München, Ingolstädter Landstraße 1, 8042, Oberschleißheim, Germany

    Wilhelm van Eimeren  & Rolf Engelbrecht  & 

  2. The Johns Hopkins University, 615 North Wolfe Street, Baltimore, Maryland, 21205, USA

    Charles D. Flagle

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Verdecchia, A., Capocaccia, R., Mariotti, S. (1984). Estimation of Cardiovascular Diseases Morbidity Using Mortality Data. In: van Eimeren, W., Engelbrecht, R., Flagle, C.D. (eds) Third International Conference on System Science in Health Care. Health Systems Research. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-69939-9_10

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