… make greater use of IHME outputs for its global health statistics and SDG monitoring. … global
burden of disease assessment at WHO and issues for its future role in global health statistics…

… Alcohol and drug use contribute substantially to the global burden of disease, not only
through substance use disorders but also from other disease consequences resulting from use. …

… levels and (ii) comment on the availability and quality of existing data collections and identify
challenges in estimating and comparing substance use and related burden geographically …

… comparability of 2016 statistics between Global Health Estimates (GHE) and Global Health
Data … Nevertheless, this is not really surprising considering that the two registries use different …

… GBD uses the largest collection of data on causes of death in the world, allowing us to use
statistical models that can borrow strength over time and geography. Although this ensures an …

… Alcohol use is a leading risk factor for death and disability, but its … the Global Burden of
Diseases, Injuries, and Risk Factors Study 2016, we generated improved estimates of alcohol use …

… burden has been rising over the past decades. In this article, we examine and describe the
global burden … Throughout we use the terms transitioning, emerging and lower HDI countries/…

… higher disability burden than mental and substance use disorders, … -adjusted life years, similar
to a global pattern.22 Overall, the … the most current vital statistics because of the time lag in …

… the huge burden of dementia: in 2016, the global number of … the way in which dementia
statistics are generated, particularly … We use cookies to help provide and enhance our service …

… burden as global average 65-year-olds. To approximate an age of equivalence, we set the
age-related disease burden rate of global … age-related disease burden rate to the reference. …