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Global Burden of Disease Study

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The Global Burden of Disease Study (GBD) is a comprehensive regional and global research program of disease burden that assesses mortality and disability from major diseases, injuries, and risk factors. [1]

71 relations: AIDS (journal), Alan Lopez, Atrial fibrillation, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, BioMed Central, Blood (journal), BMC Medicine, BMJ Open, Cancer, Cardiovascular disease, Chest (journal), Christopher J.L. Murray, Chronic kidney disease, Circulation (journal), Dean Jamison, Death, Demography, Diabetes mellitus, Diarrhea, Disability, Disability-adjusted life year, Disease burden, Disease Control Priorities Project, Environmental Science & Technology, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Harvard University, Health policy, HIV/AIDS, Injury Prevention (journal), Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, JAMA (journal), JAMA Oncology, JAMA Pediatrics, Journal of Dental Research, Journal of Investigative Dermatology, Life expectancy, Lower respiratory tract infection, Measles, Mortality rate, Nature Reviews Neurology, Neuroepidemiology (journal), Pancreatic cancer, Pathogen, Pharmacoeconomics, PLOS, PLOS Medicine, PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases, PLOS One, Population Health Metrics, Priority-setting in global health, ..., Risk factor, Rotavirus, Science (journal), Science Daily, Sickle cell disease, Streptococcus pneumoniae, Sub-Saharan Africa, The Atlantic, The BMJ, The Lancet, The New England Journal of Medicine, The New York Times, The Seattle Times, The Washington Post, Total fertility rate, University of Washington, Vox (website), World Bank, World Economic Forum, World Health Organization, World Journal of Surgery. Expand index (21 more) »

AIDS (journal)

AIDS is a peer-reviewed scientific journal that is published by Lippincott Williams & Wilkins (London, United Kingdom).

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Alan Lopez

Alan Donald Lopez (born 1951) is an Australian global and public health scholar and epidemiologist who focuses on the measurement of population health and the global descriptive epidemiologist of tobacco.

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Atrial fibrillation

Atrial fibrillation (AF or A-fib) is an abnormal heart rhythm characterized by rapid and irregular beating of the atria.

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Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF), also known as the Gates Foundation, is a private foundation founded by Bill and Melinda Gates.

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BioMed Central

BioMed Central (BMC) is a United Kingdom-based, for-profit scientific open access publisher.

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Blood (journal)

Blood is a peer-reviewed medical journal published by the American Society of Hematology.

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BMC Medicine

BMC Medicine is a peer-reviewed electronic-only medical journal published since 2003 by BioMed Central which is part of Springer Nature.

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BMJ Open

BMJ Open is a peer-reviewed open access medical mega journal that was established in 2011.

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Cancer

Cancer is a group of diseases involving abnormal cell growth with the potential to invade or spread to other parts of the body.

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Cardiovascular disease

Cardiovascular disease (CVD) is a class of diseases that involve the heart or blood vessels.

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Chest (journal)

Chest is a peer-reviewed medical journal covering chest diseases and related issues, including pulmonology, cardiology, thoracic surgery, transplantation, breathing, airway diseases, and emergency medicine.

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Christopher J.L. Murray

Christopher Murray is a researcher in global health and public health at the University of Washington in Seattle and is the institute director of the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME).

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Chronic kidney disease

Chronic kidney disease (CKD) is a type of kidney disease in which there is gradual loss of kidney function over a period of months or years.

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Circulation (journal)

Circulation is a scientific journal published by Lippincott Williams & Wilkins for the American Heart Association.

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Dean Jamison

Dean Tecumseh Jamison (born 1943) is an economist and leader in the study of global health.

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Death

Death is the cessation of all biological functions that sustain a living organism.

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Demography

Demography (from prefix demo- from Ancient Greek δῆμος dēmos meaning "the people", and -graphy from γράφω graphō, implies "writing, description or measurement") is the statistical study of populations, especially human beings.

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Diabetes mellitus

Diabetes mellitus (DM), commonly referred to as diabetes, is a group of metabolic disorders in which there are high blood sugar levels over a prolonged period.

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Diarrhea

Diarrhea, also spelled diarrhoea, is the condition of having at least three loose or liquid bowel movements each day.

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Disability

A disability is an impairment that may be cognitive, developmental, intellectual, mental, physical, sensory, or some combination of these.

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Disability-adjusted life year

The disability-adjusted life year (DALY) is a measure of overall disease burden, expressed as the number of years lost due to ill-health, disability or early death.

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Disease burden

Disease burden is the impact of a health problem as measured by financial cost, mortality, morbidity, or other indicators.

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Disease Control Priorities Project

The Disease Control Priorities Project (DCPP) is an ongoing project that aims to determine priorities for disease control across the world, particularly in low-income countries.

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Environmental Science & Technology

Environmental Science & Technology is a biweekly peer-reviewed scientific journal published since 1967 by the American Chemical Society.

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Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

The Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health (formerly Harvard School of Public Health) is the public health graduate school of Harvard University, located in the Longwood Medical Area of Boston, Massachusetts adjacent Harvard Medical School.

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Harvard University

Harvard University is a private Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

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Health policy

Health policy can be defined as the "decisions, plans, and actions that are undertaken to achieve specific healthcare goals within a society".

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HIV/AIDS

Human immunodeficiency virus infection and acquired immune deficiency syndrome (HIV/AIDS) is a spectrum of conditions caused by infection with the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV).

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Injury Prevention (journal)

Injury Prevention is a bimonthly peer-reviewed medical journal covering the prevention of injuries in all age groups, including child and adolescent injuries.

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Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation

The Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) is a research institute working in the area of global health statistics and impact evaluation at the University of Washington in Seattle.

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JAMA (journal)

JAMA: The Journal of the American Medical Association is a peer-reviewed medical journal published 48 times a year by the American Medical Association.

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JAMA Oncology

JAMA Oncology is a monthly peer-reviewed medical journal published by the American Medical Association, with a focus on cancer.

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JAMA Pediatrics

JAMA (The Journal of the American Medical Association) Pediatrics is a monthly peer-reviewed medical journal published by the American Medical Association.

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Journal of Dental Research

The Journal of Dental Research is a peer-reviewed medical journal that covers all aspects of dentistry.

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Journal of Investigative Dermatology

The Journal of Investigative Dermatology is a peer-reviewed scientific journal of dermatology published by the Nature Publishing Group.

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Life expectancy

Life expectancy is a statistical measure of the average time an organism is expected to live, based on the year of its birth, its current age and other demographic factors including gender.

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Lower respiratory tract infection

Lower respiratory tract infection (LRTI), while often used as a synonym for pneumonia, can also be applied to other types of infection including lung abscess and acute bronchitis.

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Measles

Measles is a highly contagious infectious disease caused by the measles virus.

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Mortality rate

Mortality rate, or death rate, is a measure of the number of deaths (in general, or due to a specific cause) in a particular population, scaled to the size of that population, per unit of time.

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Nature Reviews Neurology

Nature Reviews Neurology is a peer-reviewed journal for neurologists.

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Neuroepidemiology (journal)

Neuroepidemiology is a bimonthly peer-reviewed medical journal covering the epidemiology of neurological conditions.

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Pancreatic cancer

Pancreatic cancer arises when cells in the pancreas, a glandular organ behind the stomach, begin to multiply out of control and form a mass.

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Pathogen

In biology, a pathogen (πάθος pathos "suffering, passion" and -γενής -genēs "producer of") or a '''germ''' in the oldest and broadest sense is anything that can produce disease; the term came into use in the 1880s.

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Pharmacoeconomics

Pharmacoeconomics refers to the scientific discipline that compares the value of one pharmaceutical drug or drug therapy to another.

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PLOS

PLOS (for Public Library of Science) is a nonprofit open access science, technology and medicine publisher, innovator and advocacy organization with a library of open access journals and other scientific literature under an open content license.

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PLOS Medicine

PLOS Medicine (formerly styled PLoS Medicine) is a peer-reviewed weekly medical journal covering the full spectrum of the medical sciences.

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PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases

PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases is a peer-reviewed open access scientific journal devoted to the study of neglected tropical diseases, including helminth, bacterial, viral, protozoan, and fungal infections endemic to tropical regions.

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PLOS One

PLOS One (stylized PLOS ONE, and formerly PLoS ONE) is a peer-reviewed open access scientific journal published by the Public Library of Science (PLOS) since 2006.

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Population Health Metrics

Population Health Metrics (PHM) is a BioMed Central "open access, peer-reviewed, online journal featuring innovative research that addresses all aspects of the measurement of population health, including concepts, methods, ethics, and results." PHM is one of the few journals that focuses on population health and all of its sub-disciplines.

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Priority-setting in global health

In global health, priority-setting is a term used for the process and strategy of deciding which health interventions to carry out.

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Risk factor

In epidemiology, a risk factor is a variable associated with an increased risk of disease or infection.

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Rotavirus

Rotavirus is the most common cause of diarrhoeal disease among infants and young children.

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Science (journal)

Science, also widely referred to as Science Magazine, is the peer-reviewed academic journal of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) and one of the world's top academic journals.

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Science Daily

Science Daily is an American website that aggregates press releases and publishes lightly edited press releases (a practice called churnalism) about science, similar to Phys.org and EurekAlert!.

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Sickle cell disease

Sickle cell disease (SCD) is a group of blood disorders typically inherited from a person's parents.

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Streptococcus pneumoniae

Streptococcus pneumoniae, or pneumococcus, is a Gram-positive, alpha-hemolytic (under aerobic conditions) or beta-hemolytic (under anaerobic conditions), facultative anaerobic member of the genus Streptococcus.

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Sub-Saharan Africa

Sub-Saharan Africa is, geographically, the area of the continent of Africa that lies south of the Sahara.

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The Atlantic

The Atlantic is an American magazine and multi-platform publisher, founded in 1857 as The Atlantic Monthly in Boston, Massachusetts.

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The BMJ

The BMJ is a weekly peer-reviewed medical journal.

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The Lancet

The Lancet is a weekly peer-reviewed general medical journal.

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The New England Journal of Medicine

The New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM) is a weekly medical journal published by the Massachusetts Medical Society.

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The New York Times

The New York Times (sometimes abbreviated as The NYT or The Times) is an American newspaper based in New York City with worldwide influence and readership.

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The Seattle Times

The Seattle Times is a daily newspaper serving Seattle, Washington, United States.

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The Washington Post

The Washington Post is a major American daily newspaper founded on December 6, 1877.

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Total fertility rate

The total fertility rate (TFR), sometimes also called the fertility rate, absolute/potential natality, period total fertility rate (PTFR), or total period fertility rate (TPFR) of a population is the average number of children that would be born to a woman over her lifetime if.

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University of Washington

The University of Washington (commonly referred to as UW, simply Washington, or informally U-Dub) is a public research university in Seattle, Washington.

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Vox (website)

Vox is an American news and opinion website owned by Vox Media.

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World Bank

The World Bank (Banque mondiale) is an international financial institution that provides loans to countries of the world for capital projects.

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World Economic Forum

The World Economic Forum (WEF) is a Swiss nonprofit foundation, based in Cologny, Geneva, Switzerland.

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World Health Organization

The World Health Organization (WHO; French: Organisation mondiale de la santé) is a specialized agency of the United Nations that is concerned with international public health.

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World Journal of Surgery

The World Journal of Surgery is a peer-reviewed medical journal covering research in the field of surgery.

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GBD 1990, GBD 2010, GBD 2013, GBD 2015, Global Burden of Disease Study 2010, Global Burden of Diseases, Injuries, and Risk Factors Study, Global Burden of Diseases, Injuries, and Risk Factors Study 2015.

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_Burden_of_Disease_Study

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