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 …

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 …

People are living longer, but with more disease and disability: an unprecedented transition
from a world with communicable diseases to one with chronic disease and disability, with …

Background Understanding health trends and estimating the burden of disease at the
national and subnational levels helps policy makers track progress and identify disparities in …

Background Detailed assessments of mortality patterns, particularly age-specific mortality,
represent a crucial input that enables health systems to target interventions to specific …

Summary Background The UN's Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are grounded in
the global ambition of" leaving no one behind". Understanding today's gains and gaps for …

The Global Burden of Disease Project (GBD) is a huge international enterprise that provides
vast amounts of valuable data on (a) the prevalence of different diseases in the world as a …

Background Monitoring levels and trends in premature mortality is crucial to understanding
how societies can address prominent sources of early death. The Global Burden of Disease …

Background Quantification of the disease burden caused by different risks informs
prevention by providing an account of health loss different to that provided by a disease-by …

Summary Background As Indonesia moves to provide health coverage for all citizens,
understanding patterns of morbidity and mortality is important to allocate resources and …