A Crucial Push For Improved Global Health Statistics by Alex Ocampo. Health Map. April 9, 2013.
While the Global Burden Of Disease 2010 report represents a vast effort to bring together worldwide statistics, much remains to be done. Rural areas in particular often lack data collection systems leaving computer models to extrapolate from the available sources. The article recounts the dispute between WHO and Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation about the number of malaria cases worldwide. Sometimes it is difficult to get even basic statistics with which everyone can agree.
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