Background Following the economic crisis in Greece in 2010, the country's ongoing austerity
measures include a substantial contraction of health-care expenditure, with reports of …

Background Efforts to establish the 2015 baseline and monitor early implementation of the
UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) highlight both great potential for and threats to …

Summary Background The Global Burden of Disease Study 2013 (GBD 2013) aims to bring
together all available epidemiological data using a coherent measurement framework …

Background Detailed, comprehensive, and timely reporting on population health by
underlying causes of disability and premature death is crucial to understanding and …

Background Measurement of changes in health across locations is useful to compare and
contrast changing epidemiological patterns against health system performance and identify …

Background Non-fatal outcomes of disease and injury increasingly detract from the ability of
the world's population to live in full health, a trend largely attributable to an epidemiological …

Background As mortality rates decline, life expectancy increases, and populations age, non-
fatal outcomes of diseases and injuries are becoming a larger component of the global …

Background Healthy life expectancy (HALE) and disability-adjusted life-years (DALYs)
provide summary measures of health across geographies and time that can inform …

The Global Burden of Diseases, Injuries, and Risk Factors (GBD) enterprise is a systematic,
scientific effort to quantify the comparative magnitude of health loss due to diseases, injuries …

Summary The Global Burden of Diseases, Injuries, and Risk Factors Study (GBD) 2019
provides a rules-based synthesis of the available evidence on levels and trends in health …