Saving Lives in Health: Global Estimates and Country Measurement

Overview

Journal PLoS Med

Specialty General Medicine

Date 2013 Oct 17

PMID 24130462

Citations 3

Authors

Daniel Low-Beer

Ryuichi Komatsu

Osamu Kunii

Affiliations

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Abstract

Daniel Low-Beer and colleagues provide a response from The Global Fund on the PLOS Medicine article by David McCoy and colleagues critiquing their lives saved assessment models. Please see later in the article for the Editors' Summary.

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