Global Burden of Disease

Global Burden of Disease and Risk Factors

A copublication of Oxford University Press and The World Bank, April 2006
ISBN: 0-8213-6262-3

EDITORS: Alan D. Lopez, Colin D. Mathers, Majid Ezzati. Dean T. Jamison, Christopher J. L. Murray
The Disease Control Priorities Project (DCPP) is a joint enterprise of The World Bank, the Fogarty International Center (FIC) of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), the World Health Organization (WHO), and the Population Reference Bureau. The NIH National Library of Medicine (NLM) is also a partner. DCPP is funded principally through a grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
Website: http://www.dcp2.org/pubs/GBD
PDF version [506p.] at: http://files.dcp2.org/pdf/GBD/GBD.pdf
“…..Over the past six years, the World Health Organization has undertaken a new assessment of the global burden of disease for 2000-2. The World Health Organization has also invested in improving the conceptual, methodological, and empirical basis of burden of disease assessments and the assessment of the disease and injury burden from major risk factors. During 1999-2004, the authors of this volume and many collaborators from around the world worked intensively to assemble an updated, comprehensive assessment of the global burden of disease and its causes.
The Global Burden of Disease and Risk Factors is the definitive, scientific account of these efforts and of the health conditions of the world's population at the beginning of the 21st century. This book includes a full account of methods, the complete results of recent work, and an assessment of trends for total mortality and for major causes of death among children under five. In addition, two chapters cover sensitivity and uncertainty analyses in relation to a broad range of potentially important parameters….”