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Compendium – Years of life lost
Years of life lost (YLL) is a measure of premature mortality. Its primary purpose is to compare the relative importance of different causes of premature death within a particular population and it can therefore be used by health planners to define priorities for the prevention of such deaths. It can...
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Compendium – Mortality from infectious diseases
To reduce deaths from infectious and parasitic disease.
To help reduce the incidence of measles, meningococcal meningitis, whooping cough and tuberculosis
To monitor the “major killers” in UK health related mortality.