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Figure 05.1
Disease prevention in a serious condition such as melanoma is much more sensible than treating sick individuals with expensive drugs at the end of a l...
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Figure 05.5
Years lost due to disability (YLD) for skin disease according to age from the 2010 Global Burden of Disease study showing a peak in younger life and a...
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Figure 05.2
Generalizing the results of a clinical trial of a new treatment for atopic eczema from a study of children attending one hospital department to all ch...
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Figure 05.6
Global distribution of disability‐adjusted life years (DALYs) for skin disease from the 2010 Global Burden of Disease study illustrating the dispropo...
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Figure 05.3
Skin disease is a major public health problem: in public health terms, a little bit of misery affecting a lot of people can add up to more than seriou...
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Figure 05.4
Years lost due to disability (YLD) for the main 16 skin condition groupings by region in 2010 as a proportion of total YLD and as YLD per 100 000 of ...