Abstract Background The World Health Organization collaborated in the first Global Burden
of Disease Study (GBD), published in the 1993 World Development Report. This paper …

In 1993 the World Bank sponsored a study to assess the global burden of disease in
collaboration with the World Health Organization (WHO) and the Harvard School of Public …

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 global burden of disease study—which has been affiliated with the World Bank and the
World Health Organisation (WHO) and is now housed in the Institute for Health Metrics and …

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 …

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 …

In 1993 the Harvard School of Public Health in collaboration with The World Bank and WHO
assessed the Global Burden of Disease (GBD). As well as generating comprehensive and …

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 …

As part of the original Global Burden of Disease study for the year 1990, Murray and Lopez
prepared projections of mortality and burden of disease by cause forward to 2000, 2010 and …

Impressive improvements have occurred in global health status in the past century.
Unfortunately, these improvements have not been shared equally and health in equalities …