Estimating global injuries morbidity and mortality: methods and data used in the Global Burden of Disease 2017 study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

While there is a long history of measuring death and disability from injuries, modern research methods must account for the wide spectrum of disability that can occur in an injury, and must provide estimates with sufficient demographic, geographical and temporal detail to be useful for policy makers. The Global Burden of Disease (GBD) 2017 study used methods to provide highly detailed estimates of global injury burden that meet these criteria.

Methods

In this study, we report and discuss the methods used in GBD 2017 for injury morbidity and mortality burden estimation. In summary, these methods included estimating cause-specific mortality for every cause of injury, and then estimating incidence for every cause of injury. Non-fatal disability for each cause is then

SUBMITTER: James SL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7571362 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature