The Global Burden of Disease

by Murray, Christopher J. L.; Lopez, Alan D.; Harvard School of Public Health; World Health Organization

• ISBN13: 9780674354487
• ISBN10: 0674354486
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1996-12-01
• Publisher: Harvard Sch of Public Health

Summary

The Global Burden of Disease and Injury Series details and analyzes global patterns of death and disability, providing a bold, comprehensive examination of the state of the world's health. The Global Burden of Disease (GBD) provides systematic epidemiological estimates for an unprecedented 150 major health conditions. Its methods and results are presented here, including: disaggregated death and disability data; projections to the year 2020; and risk factor evaluations. While it minutely examines causes of death, the GBD is unique in its inclusion of disability. The authors explore the technical bases and moral implications of incorporating social, physical, and mental disabilities in health assessments, explicating the indicator they have developed, the disability-adjusted life-year (DALY). The GBD provides indispensable global and regional data for health planning, research, and education. Among the study's results: Depression was the fourth leading cause of disease-burden in 1990 and by 2020 will be the single leading cause. Injuries cause over 15 percent of death and disability. HIV will by 2010 inflict as great a burden as the age-old epidemic tuberculosis. By 2020, tobacco use will account for 9 million deaths annually. Ultimately, pneumonia and diarrhea, both primarily diseases of childhood, will continue to inflict the greatest health burden of all.

Table of Contents

List of Tables

List of Figures

Global Burden of Disease And Injury Series Foreword

Global Burden of Disease And Injury Series Foreword

Foreword

Preface

Acknowledgements

Rethinking dalys

Non-Fatal Health Outcomes: Concepts,Instruments and Indicators

Estimating Causes of Death: New Methods and Global and Regional Applications For 1990

Global and Regional Descriptive Epidemiology of Disability: Incidence, Prevalence, Health Expectancies and Years Lived With Disability

The Global Burden Of Disease In 1990: Final Results And Their Sensitivity To Alternative Epidemiological Perspectives, Discount Rates, Age- Weights And Disability Weights

Quantifying The Burden Of Disease And Injury Attributable To Ten Major Risk Factors

Alternative Visions Of The Future: Projecting Mortality And Disability, 1990-2020

Annex Tables

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