Over the past six years, the World Health Organization has undertaken a new assessment of
the global burden of disease for 2000-2. The World Health Organization has also invested in …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

This report uses a comprehensive framework for studying health risks that was developed
for the World Health Report 2002, which presented estimates for the year 2000. The report …

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

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 …

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 …

Detailed descriptions of the level and distribution of diseases and injuries and their causes
are important inputs into strategies for improving population health. A substantial body of …