Global Health Risks: Mortality and burden of disease attributable to selected major risks

Submitted by andrea on Mon, 2010-01-04 09:14
Author(s):
Colin Mathers, Gretchen Stevens and Maya Mascarenhas.
Year:
2009
City:
Geneva
Publisher:
World Health Organization
Pages:
70
Summary:

Full Report

This report uses updated information from WHO programmes and scientific studies for both exposure data and the causal associations of risk exposure to disease and injury outcomes. It applies these updated risk analyses to the latest regional estimates of mortality and disease burden for a comprehensive set of diseases and injuries for the year 2004.

Statistical Down Scaling Model (SDSM)

Submitted by andrea on Mon, 2009-06-08 21:15
Summary:
Background

Statistical Down Scaling Model (SDSM) is a decision support tool for assessing local climate change impacts using a robust statistical down scaling technique. SDSM facilitates the rapid development of multiple, low–cost, single–site scenarios of daily surface weather variables under current and future regional climate forcing. Additionally, the software performs ancillary tasks of predictor variable pre–screening, model calibration, basic diagnostic testing and statistical analyses of climate data.