Publications
MAJOR PUBLICATIONS
The Global Burden of Disease (GBD) and risk factor publications are listed below. The 1990 Global Burden of Disease study (GBD 1990 study) was the first publication using Burden of Disease methods. These estimates have been updated in subsequent publications presented below. Journal articles and monographs that have been referenced or provide additional information are also provided below, in chronological order.
- Global health risks
- The global burden of disease: 2004 update
- Global burden of disease and risk factors (2006)
- Comparative quantification of health risks (2004)
- The world health report 2002: reducing risks, promoting healthy life (2002)
- Summary measures of population health (2002)
- Global comparative assessments in the health sector (1994)
- GBD 1990 study, volume 1: The global burden of disease (1996)
- GBD 1990 study, volume 2: Global health statistics (1996)
- GBD 1990 study, volume 3: Health dimensions of sex and reproduction (1998)
- GBD 1990 study, volume 4: Global epidemiology of infectious diseases (2004)
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GBD 1990 study: Global burden of onchocerciasis (2004)
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OTHER WHO PUBLICATIONS
- GBD: International Encyclopedia of Public Health (2008)
- Priorities for women's health from the GBD study (2008)
- Preventing cancer through tobacco and infection control (2008)
- The burden and costs of chronic diseases in low-income and middle-income countries (2007)
- Environmental burden of disease: country profiles (2007)
- Projections of global mortality and burden of disease from 2002 to 2030 (2006)
- Global and regional burden of disease and risk factors, 2001 (2006)
- Preventing chronic diseases: how many lives can we save? (2005)
- Preventing chronic diseases: a vital investment: WHO global report (2005)
- Global patterns of healthy life expectancy in the year 2002 (2004)
- Global burden of depressive disorders in the year 2000 (2004)
- The world health report 2004: changing history (2004)
- Distribution of major health risks: findings from the GBD (2004)
- Estimates of potential health gains from reducing multiple major risk factors (2003)
- Comparative quantification of health risks conceptual framework and methodological issues (2003)
- The world health report 2003: shaping the future (2003)
- Selected major risk factors and global and regional burden of disease (2002)
- The world health report 2001: mental health: new understanding, new hope (2001)
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A critical examination of summary measures of population health (2000)
pdf, 105kb - The world health report 2000: health systems: improving performance (2000)
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On the comparable quantification of health risks: lessons from the GBD study (1999)
pdf, 388kb - Mortality by cause for eight regions of the world: GBD study (1997)
- Regional patterns of disability-free and disability-adjusted life expectancy: GBD study (1997)
- Global mortality, disability and the contribution of risk factors: GBD study (1997)
- Alternative projections of mortality and disability by cause 1990-2020: GBD study (1997)
- Investing in health research and development (1996)
- Evidence-based health policy: lessons from the GBD study (1996)
- Global comparative assessments in the health sector: WHO Bulletin collected reprints (1994)
- Quantifying disability: data, methods and results (1994)
OTHER EXTERNAL PUBLICATIONS
- Health metrics and evaluation: strengthening the science (2008)
- Maternal and child undernutrition: global and regional exposures and health consequences (2008)
- Towards good practice for health statistics: lessons from the MDG health indicators (2007)
- Cardiovascular mortality attributable to higher-than-optimal blood glucose concentration (2006)
- Cancer: comparative risk assessment of 9 behavioural and environmental risk factors (2005)
- Global patterns of nutritional risks in relation to economic development (2005)
- The evolution of the GBD framework for disease, injury and risk factor quantification (2005)
- Eastern Europe: burden of disease study (2005)
- Regional, disease specific patterns of smoking-attributable mortality in 2000 (2004)
- Adult mortality: time for a reappraisal (2004)
- Estimates of global mortality attributable to smoking in 2000 (2003)
- Measuring the accumulated hazards of smoking: global and regional estimates for 2000 (2003)
- Disability Adjusted Life Years (DALYS) for decision-making? An overview of the literature (2002)
- The burden of disease among the global poor: situation, trends, implications and strategy (2000)
- The value of DALY life: problems with ethics and validity of disability adjusted life years (1999)
- DALYs: efficiency versus equity (1998)
- Disability-adjusted life years: a critical review (1997)
- Understanding DALYs (1997)
- DALYs: the age-weights on balance (1996)
- Opening the debate on DALYs (1996)
- World developmental report: investing in health (1993)