Any planning process for health development ought to be based on a thorough
understanding of the health needs of the population. This should be sufficiently …

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 …

The next two decades will see dramatic changes in the health needs of the world's
populations. In the developing regions where four-fifths of the planet's people live …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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

A basic requirement for evaluating the cost-effectiveness of health interventions is a
comprehensive assessment of the amount of ill health (premature death and disability) …