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 …

Perspectives www. thelancet. com Vol 391 June 9, 2018 2317 was a fairly low-budget affair.
With only basic computational power available and a reliance on the use of spreadsheets …

The latest estimates and analyses from the Global Burden of Disease Study 2015 (GBD
2015) 1–7 provide a vital link between the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and the …

Publication of the Global Burden of Disease Study 2010 (GBD 2010) is a landmark event for
this journal and, we hope, for health. The collaboration of 486 scientists from 302 institutions …

The Global Burden of Diseases, Injuries, and Risk Factors (GBD) enterprise is a systematic,
scientific effort to quantify the comparative magnitude of health loss due to diseases, injuries …

other disease in the top 30 of Murray and Lopez's list that has had a similar projected
increase in mortality. Compared with the 312 000 AIDS deaths for 1990, as you cite, the …

other disease in the top 30 of Murray and Lopez's list that has had a similar projected
increase in mortality. Compared with the 312 000 AIDS deaths for 1990, as you cite, the …

Much of the work will be organised around 35 expert groups. To make sure GBD2005
incorporates the broadest possible knowledge and expertise in individual diseases or risk …

Massive, collaborative, and challenging are just some of the words that the scientists who
worked on the Global Burden of Disease Study (GBD) 2010 have used to describe the …

The most recent update on the global, regional, and national causes of death, presented in
The Lancet by the GBD Mortality and Causes of Death Collaborators, 1 a large international …