GBD 2010: a multi-investigator collaboration for global comparative descriptive
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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 …

Background Healthy life expectancy (HALE) and disability-adjusted life-years (DALYs)
provide summary measures of health across geographies and time that can inform …

Background Combinations of lifestyle factors interact to increase mortality. Combinations of
traditional factors such as smoking and alcohol are well described, but the additional effects …

The underlying processes are global in scale, and the natural systems affected are part of
earth's life-supporting infrastructure. This type of health risk thus differs noticeably from more …

Background Around the globe, work has a heavy impact on health. To better advise policy
makers, we assessed the global burden of disease and injury due to selected occupational …

Background Long-term exposure to air pollution has been linked with an increase in risk of
mortality. Whether existing US Environmental Protection Agency standards are sufficient to …

1.1 Background A consistent and comparative description of the burden of diseases and
injuries, and the risk factors that cause them, is an important input to health decision-making …

We wish to compliment the Global Burden of Diseases, Injuries, and Risk Factors Study
(GBD) Collaborators for their important contributions to global health metrics over the past …

Background Despite a substantial reduction in the use of solid fuels worldwide, exposure to
household air pollution (HAP) from use of these fuels for cooking remains a leading risk …