Measuring the burden of neglected tropical diseases: the global burden of disease framework.

ABSTRACT: 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 health sector. Traditional sources of information about the descriptive epidemiology of diseases, injuries, and risk factors are generally incomplete, fragmented, and of uncertain reliability and comparability. The Global Burden of Disease (GBD) study has provided a conceptual and methodological framework to quantify and compare the health of populations using a summary measure of both mortality and disability, the disability-adjusted life year (DALY).This paper describes key features of the Global Burden of Disease analytic approach, which provides a standardized measurement framework to permit comparisons across d

SUBMITTER: Mathers CD 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC2100367 | biostudies-literature | 2007 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature