Background Estimation of the global burden of disease and injury due to selected occupational
factors is a topic of interest to policy makers, governments, and international bodies. The …

… the global, regional, and country-specific burden of stroke by sex and age groups, including
trends in stroke burden from … The need to scale-up the primary prevention actions is urgent. …

… national action plans guided by the global action plan for prevention and control … global
voluntary targets, which are to be attained by 2025. In addition, a set of cost-effective preventive …

… than one-half of the global burden of disease. Cardiovascular diseases … The GBD (Global
Burden of Disease) study measures and … in the global effort to control the rising burden of NCD. …

… global burden of chronic diseases. Although Johns Hopkins, University of North Carolina,
and Yale now address obesity in their nutrition courses and Yale teaches chronic diseases …

… While musculoskeletal health conditions may be indirectly addressed as part of the SDG
on health, particularly in the context of preventive actions that influence comorbidities such as …

… preventive, diagnostic and therapeutic strategies to effectively reduce the enormous global
burden of … This call for global action has summarized reasonable strategies and undertakings …

The Global Burden of Disease (GBD) concept has been used by the World Health Organization
(WHO) for its reporting on health information for nearly 10 years. The GBD approach …

… More recently, the analyses for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2013 [2] further … In the
analyses for the Global Burden of Disease Study [2], estimates were also made of the global …

… This paper identifies several preventive measures that offer the most feasible approach to
mitigate the anticipated global increase in cancer in countries that can least afford it. Foremost …