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Launch of the Global Burden of Disease Study

Also Known As GBD Study
Epidemiology

The Global Burden of Disease Study began in 1990 as a single World Bank-commissioned study quantifying the health effects of more than 100 diseases and injuries across eight world regions, giving estimates of morbidity and mortality by age, sex and region. The 1990 round was institutionalized at the World Health Organization, with the research conducted mainly by researchers at Harvard and the WHO, and it introduced the disability-adjusted life year as a new metric meant to let the cost-effectiveness of very different health interventions be compared on one scale, the metric this atlas's own DALY concept describes. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

Facts
Milestone YearSourced to the subject's own account
1990 1
Milestone Date
1990-01-01 1
Sourced to the subject's own accountCited source gives the year 1990 only, no month or day; 1990-01-01 stored as the year placeholder, matching the entity's own live milestone-year=1990.
LocationSourced to the subject's own account
World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland; research conducted mainly by Harvard University and WHO 1
Classification
Type/ClassificationSourced to the subject's own account
Technological Innovation 1
Connections

Associated With

Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, Institutions

IHME has coordinated the Global Burden of Disease Study since its founding in 2007.

Source Wikipedia: Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation

Concepts and Practices Developed

Disability-Adjusted Life Year, Concepts
Source Wikipedia: Global Burden of Disease Study

Credited To

Christopher J. L. Murray, Figures
Source Wikipedia: Christopher J.L. Murray
World Health Organization, Institutions
Source Wikipedia: Global Burden of Disease Study

In Branch

Epidemiology, Branches
Sources
1. Wikipedia: Global Burden of Disease Study
Wikipedia
  • History section
    It also introduced the disability-adjusted life year (DALY) as a new metric to quantify the burden of diseases, injuries, and risk factors, to aid comparisons.
  • Aims section
    a metric that could also be used to assess the cost-effectiveness of interventions. The metric chosen was the DALY (Disability Adjusted Life Years).
  • History section, opening sentence
    The Global Burden of Disease Study began in 1990 as a single World Bank-commissioned study that quantified the health effects of more than 100 diseases and injuries for eight regions of the world, giving estimates of morbidity and mortality by age, sex, and region.
  • History section, institutional sentence
    GBD 1990 was "institutionalized" at the World Health Organization (WHO) and the research was "conducted mainly by researchers at Harvard and WHO".
  • Program classification, entity description sentence
    The 1990 round was institutionalized at the World Health Organization, with the research conducted mainly by researchers at Harvard and the WHO, and it introduced the disability-adjusted life year as a new metric meant to let the cost-effectiveness of very different health interventions be compared on one scale, the metric this atlas's own DALY concept describes.
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Wikipedia: Christopher J.L. Murray
WikipediaCredited To: Christopher J. L. MurrayView the Source
Wikipedia: Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation
WikipediaAssociated With: Institute for Health Metrics and EvaluationView the Source
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