reviewThe LancetOct 1, 2020BRONZE OA

Five insights from the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019

University of Washington · Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation · +4 more institutions

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Abstract

The Global Burden of Diseases, Injuries, and Risk Factors Study (GBD) 2019 provides a rules-based synthesis of the available evidence on levels and trends in health outcomes, a diverse set of risk factors, and health system responses. GBD 2019 covered 204 countries and territories, as well as first administrative level disaggregations for 22 countries, from 1990 to 2019. Because GBD is highly standardised and comprehensive, spanning both fatal and non-fatal outcomes, and uses a mutually exclusive and collectively exhaustive list of hierarchical disease and injury causes, the study provides a powerful basis for detailed and broad insights on global health trends and emerging challenges. GBD 2019 incorporates…

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Keywords
  • Burden of disease
  • Medicine
  • Disease burden
  • Disease
  • MEDLINE
  • Intensive care medicine
  • Internal medicine
  • Political science
UN Sustainable Development Goals
  • Partnerships for the goals
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