Journal article
Global, regional, and national disability-adjusted life years (DALYs) for 306 diseases and injuries and healthy life expectancy (HALE) for 188 countries, 1990–2013: quantifying the epidemiological transition
Abstract
BACKGROUND: The Global Burden of Disease Study 2013 (GBD 2013) aims to bring together all available epidemiological data using a coherent measurement framework, standardised estimation methods, and transparent data sources to enable comparisons of health loss over time and across causes, age-sex groups, and countries. The GBD can be used to generate summary measures such as disability-adjusted life-years (DALYs) and healthy life expectancy …
Authors
Collaborators GDAH; Murray CJL; Barber RM; Foreman KJ; Ozgoren AA; Abd-Allah F; Abera SF; Aboyans V; Abraham JP; Abubakar I
Journal
The Lancet, Vol. 386, No. 10009, pp. 2145–2191
Publisher
Elsevier
Publication Date
November 2015
DOI
10.1016/s0140-6736(15)61340-x
ISSN
0140-6736