… of risk-factor burden will alter in coming decades as a result of changes in exposure levels
and … For example, it is predicted that by 2020 the leading risks to health will be (1) unsafe sex, …

… in measuring health outcomes, we can compare changes in age-related disease burden
across countries and over time and assess different factors that have led to changes over time. …

… In Section 3, we provide a quantitative analysis of the impacts that changes in the model
inputs have had on the country-specific and global estimates. This is followed by summary (…

… The next two decades will see dramatic changes in the health needs of the world's … diseases
worldwide as a source of ill health. These changes are expected because of the rapid aging …

… several GBD national-specific papers,5, 6, 7, 8, 9 including some focused on specific
diseases.10, 11 that already provided relevant insights of health states and changes over time. …

… of diseases and injuries and the risk factors that cause them, and how this burden is likely
to change with the adoption of various policies and interventions. Needs are, of course, not the …

… Advisory Committee for the Global Burden of Disease, meets every 6 … health increases,
our assumptions of the past should always be available for challenge, improvement and change…

… disease, in which no dramatic changes are to be expected in the near future, with HIV/AIDS
in which we are still at the beginning of a pandemic and the major burden of AIDS and AIDS-…

… assessment of the health of the world's population in 2004. Consistent and comparative
description of the burden of diseases and injuries is an important input to health decision-…

… analysis of data from the Global Burden of Diseases, Injuries, and Risk … health loss across
countries to date. The purpose of the study was to present recent estimates of disease burden …