… We estimated the disease burden from water, sanitation, and hygiene at the global level
taking into account various disease outcomes, principally diarrheal diseases. The disability-…

… has undertaken a new assessment of the global burden of disease for 2000-2. The World …
of burden of disease assessments and the assessment of the disease and injury burden from …

… Health effects may also be delayed to a greater or lesser extent after initial exposure, either
because it takes time for exposures to reach a critical level, or because the disease itself …

… disease burden. Such a method for the assessment of environmental disease burdens at
national or global levels … of environmental exposures in terms of disease burden. We layout a …

… The production and dissemination of health information for health action at the country,
regional and global levels are core WHO activities mandated by the Member States in the …

… particular interest at a global level. But at the level of the individual country, the assumption
overlooks the capacity of national policymakers to direct specific disease-reduction initiatives …

… The first ever global assessment of disease and injury, the Global Burden of Disease (GBD) …
among all ages — a 10% increase from the estimated levels for 1990. Indeed, almost 50% …

… One such counterfactual distribution was defined for each risk factor as the population
distribution of exposure that would lead to the lowest levels of disease burden. Thus, for example, …

… more detailed level—such as the US National Institutes of Health–funded effort to estimate
the burden of disease by county and race/ethnicity group or the estimation of burden for upper …

… burden of disease (18). The quantification reported here of the global and regional disease
and injury burden … global level, the r-squared ranges from 0.84 when burden dueto Group I, …