Debates about health priorities are likely to be better informed if there is a reasonable
understanding among policy makers of the comparative importance of various diseases and …

One major conclusion of the Global Burden of Disease Study (GBDS) is that the global
burden of disease will not change significantly from 1990 to 2020, in developed regions …

The epidemiological transition and rapid changes in disease patterns have posed serious
challenges to health-care systems and forced difficult decisions about the allocation of …

Reliable, comparable information about the main causes of disease and injury in
populations, and how these are changing, is a critical input for debates about priorities in the …

1. Objectives Decision makers need the best available evidence in the form of quantities of
interest to them. Concerns about quality and uncertainty of data are not an acceptable …

The World Bank Group welcomes the publication of the new Global Burden of Disease
Study (GBD). The Bank commissioned the first GBD in 1990, and continues to make …

The next two decades will see dramatic changes in the health needs of the world's
populations. In the developing regions where four-fifths of the planet's people live …

This report provides a comprehensive assessment of the health of the world's population in
2004. Consistent and comparative description of the burden of diseases and injuries is an …

Summary measures of population health combine information about morbidity and
premature mortality within a single 'metric'. Particularly prominent at the international level is …

Background People everywhere, but particularly those charged with improving the health of
populations, want to know whether human beings are living longer and getting healthier …