National tools
The GBD methods can be applied on a national or sub-national level and tailored to health values of that country. We provide the following practical tools for people undertaking a burden of disease study - a link to software to help create life tables and disease models, a manual, supplementary files to help with calculations, and examples of where these methods have been applied by researchers around the globe.
NATIONAL BURDEN OF DISEASE MANUAL
NATIONAL BURDEN OF DISEASE SUPPLEMENTARY FILES
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Disability weights
xls, 313kb -
Treatment fractions
xls, 117kb -
Cause categories
pdf, 131kb -
Life table template
xls, 46kb -
Standard life table
xls, 82kb -
DALY calculation template
xls, 113kb -
Brass growth balance exercise
pdf, 21kb -
Brass growth balance template
xls, 64kb -
Bennett-Horiuchi method
xls, 44kb -
Generalized growth balance method
xls, 62kb -
WHO standard lx
xls, 15kb -
YLD template
xls, 94kb
NATIONAL BURDEN OF DISEASE CENTRES AND STUDIES
- Australia
- Australia: South
- Australia: Western
- Australia: Northern
- Australia: indigenous
- India: Andhra Pradesh
- Brazil
- Canada
- Colombia
- European disability weights project
- Mexico
- Netherlands
- New Zealand
- Peru
- South Africa
- South Africa: Western Cape
- Thailand
- United Kingdom
- United States of America
- Zimbabwe