Abstract
The Environmental Burden of Disease (EBoD) is a tool to integrate health metrics and evidence into the public health decision-making process. EBoD helps to integrate morbidity and mortality in the same unit, estimating base on the life expectancy and the natural history of the disease, those years that certain populations will live with a disability related to specific health diagnosis and those years of life lost due to premature death related to an environmental risk factor. EBoD is a tool that can help health professionals and stakeholders understand the impact of different environmental exposures on diseases and causes of death in a population. EBoD can also help to compare how different health and nonhealth interventions can impact public health. The aim of this chapter is to provide an overview of the EBoD concept and how it is commonly being conducted.
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Rojas-Rueda, D. (2021). Environmental Burden of Disease. In: Haring, R., Kickbusch, I., Ganten, D., Moeti, M. (eds) Handbook of Global Health. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-05325-3_92-1
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