This booklet is a summary of "The global burden of disease: a comprehensive assessment of mortality and disability from diseases, injuries, and risk factors in 1990 and projected to 2020".

The Global Burden of Disease (GBD) provides systematic epidemiological estimates for an unprecedented 150 major health conditions. The GBD provides indispensable global and regional data for health planning, research, and education.

The Global Burden of Disease framework, originally published in 1990, has been widely adopted as the preferred method for health accounting and has become the standard to guide the setting of health research priorities.

The essays in this volume address issues of current and urgent concern to the GBD and other epidemiological studies, including rival understandings of causation, the aggregation of complex health data, temporal discounting, age-weighting, ...

Generating Evidence, Guiding Policy provides an overview of the reasons why the Global Burden of Disease (GBD) is an essential tool for evidence-based health policymaking and summarizes the main findings of the Global Burden of Diseases, ...

Contains assessments of causes of death, incidence and prevalence of disease and injury, measures and projections of disease burden, and measures of risk factor burden.

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A worldwide collaborative effort to measure the impact of health problems on people, the Global Burden of Diseases, Injuries, and Risk Factors Study (GBD) is coordinated by the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation at the University ...