Workshop on eviden for health policy: burden of disease, cost-effectiveness, and health systems. (Daftar isi: 1. Model of mortality and age composition; 2. Life tables for 191 countries: data methods and results, A.D. Lopez (et al); 3. WHO system of model life tables, C.J.L. Murray (et al); 4. Measuring mortality, fertility, and natural increase: a self teaching guide elementary measures, James A. Palmore; 5. MortPak-life: the United Nations software package for mortality measurement; 6. Measuring the health of the U.S. population, David M. Cutler; 7. Summarizing population health: directions for the development and application of population metrics; 8. A critical examination of summary measures of population health, Christopher J.L. Murray (et al); 9. Health status assessment methods for adults: past accomplishments and future challenges, Colleen A. McHorney; 10. Comparative analysis more than 50 household surveys on health status, Ritu Sadana (et al); 11. Health expectancy: an indicator for change ?, Jan J. Barendregt (et al); 12. Health expectancies: an overview and critical appraisal, Colin Mathers; 13. Estimates of dale for 191 countries: methods and results, Colin D. Mathers (et al); 14. Active life among the elderly in the United States: multistate life-table estimates and population projections, Richard G. Rogers; 15. Premature mortality in the United States: public health issues in the use of years of potential life lost; 16. Decline in tuberculosis: the death rate falls to tell entire story, Mary Dempsey; 17. Aging, natural death, and the compression of morbidity, James F. Fries; 18. A standardized rate for mortality defined in units of lost years of life, William Haenszel; 18. Measuring the burden of disease: healthy life-years, Adnan A. Hyder; 19. Applying burden of disease methods in developing countries: a case study from Pakistan, Adnan A Hyder; 20. Past and future life expectancy increases at later ages: thrie implications for the linkage of chronic morbidity, disability, and mortality, Kenneth G. Manton; 21. Premature death in the United States: years of life lost and health priorities, Janet D. Perloff (et al); 22. Use of direct and indirect techniques for estimating the completeness of death registration systems, Samuel H. Preston; 23. Approaches to the collection of mortality data in the context of data needs; 24. Age patterns of marriage, Ansley J. Coale; 25. Factors influincing discrepancies between premortem and postmortem diagnoses, Ron M. Battle (et al); 26. Diagnostic errors discovered at autopsy, Mona Britton; 27. Verbal autopsies for adult deaths: issues in their development and validation, Daniel C. (et al); 28. Elements for a theory of the health transition, Julio F. (et al); 29. Analytical potential for multiple cause-of-death data, Robert A. Israel; 30. Death certificate coding practices related to diabetes in European countries - the 'EURODIAB subarea C' study, Eric J. (et al); 31. The Epidemiologic transition: a theory of the epidemiology of population change, Abdel R. Omran; 32. Childhood deaths in Africa: use and limitations of verbal autopsies; 33. Maternal recall of symptoms associated with childhood deaths in rural East Africa, RW Snow, (et al); 34. An appraisal of the epidemic rise of coronary heart disease and its decline, W.E. stehbens; 35. Measurement of overall and causes-specific mortality in infants and children: memorandum from a WHO/UNICEF meeting)