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	WHO > Programmes and projects > Health statistics and health information systems > Global Burden of Disease (GBD)

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Data sources and methods

Major publications

:: The global burden of disease: 2004 update
:: Global burden of disease and risk factors (2006)
:: Comparative quantification of health risks (2004)
:: Summary measures of population health (2002)
:: GBD 1990 study, volume 1: The global burden of disease (1996)

Methods papers

:: Uncertainty and data availability for the Global Burden of Disease estimates 2000-2002 [pdf 151kb]
:: Comparative quantification of health risks: conceptual framework and methodological issues

Discussion papers

:: Progress and directions in refining the Global Burden of Disease Approach [pdf 177kb]
:: A critical examination of summary measures of population health [pdf 105kb]
:: Methods for modeling the HIV/AIDS epidemic in sub-Saharan Africa [pdf 57kb]
:: Methods for life expectancy and healthy life expectancy uncertainty analysis [pdf 300kb]
:: Compositional models for mortality by age, sex and cause [pdf 495kb]
:: Miscoding and misclassification of ischaemic heart disease mortality [pdf 303kb]
:: Cancer incidence, mortality and survival by site for 14 regions of the world [pdf 485kb]
:: The Global Burden of Disease 2000 project - aims, methods and data sources [pdf 548kb]
:: Modified Logit Life Table System: principles, empirical validation and application [pdf 4.45Mb]
:: Life tables for 191 countries for 2000: data, methods, results [pdf 4.77Mb]
:: Global Burden of Disease 2000: version 2 methods and results [pdf 817kb]
:: Global Burden of Disease in 2002: data sources, methods and results [pdf 845kb]

:: Evidence and Information Policy (EIP) former cluster: discussion papers series

Cause-specific documentation

:: Abortion [pdf 51kb]
:: AIDS [pdf 35kb]
:: Alcohol use disorders [pdf 120kb]
:: Alzheimer disease [pdf 54kb]
:: Anaemia [pdf 47kb]
:: Bipolar disorder [pdf 39kb]
:: Blindness [pdf 198kb]
:: Cerebrovascular disease [pdf 590kb]
:: Chagas disease - English [pdf 48kb]
:: Chagas disease - Spanish [pdf 51kb]
:: Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) [pdf 396kb]
:: Deafness [pdf 97kb]
:: Depressive disorders [pdf 265kb]
:: Depressive disorders: British journal of psychiatry
:: Diabetes mellitus [pdf 111kb]
:: Diphteria [pdf 40kb]
:: Drowning [pdf 75kb]
:: Falls [pdf 75kb]
:: Gonorrhea [pdf 100kb]
:: Hearing loss [pdf 97kb]
:: HIV/AIDS [pdf 35kb]
:: Homicide [pdf 75kb]
:: Hypertensive disorders of pregnancy [pdf 43kb]
:: Injuries [pdf 75kb]
:: Iodine deficiency [pdf 62kb]
:: Iron deficiency anaemia [pdf 47kb]
:: Ischaemic heart disease [pdf 282kb]
:: Leprosy [pdf 39kb]
:: Malaria [pdf 533kb]
:: Malignant neoplasms/cancer [pdf 90kb]
:: Malignant neoplasms/cancer - estimates of cancer mortality and incicence by site: methods
:: Malignant neoplasms/cancer - estimates of cancer mortality and incidence by site: results
:: Malignant neoplasms/cancer - estimates of cancer mortality and incidence by site: correction
:: Malignant neoplasms/cancer - discussion paper 13 [doc 786kb]
:: Malnutrition [pdf 47kb]
:: Maternal haemorrhage [pdf 60kb]
:: Maternal mortality
:: Maternal sepsis [pdf 61kb]
:: Migraine [pdf 60kb]
:: Obsessive-compulsive disorder [pdf 41kb]
:: Obstructed labour [pdf 62kb]
:: Onchocerciasis [pdf 92kb]
:: Onchocerciasis 1990 [pdf 504kb]
:: Osteoarthritis [pdf 93kb]
:: Panic disorder [pdf 44kb]
:: Pertussis
:: Poisoning [pdf 75kb]
:: Poliomyelitis [pdf 37kb]
:: Post-traumatic stress disorder [pdf 30kb]
:: Rheumatoid arthritis [pdf 114kb]
:: Road traffic accidents [pdf 75kb]
:: Schizophrenia [pdf 43kb]
:: Senile dementia [pdf 54kb]
:: Sexually transmitted diseases other than HIV/AIDS [pdf 100kb]
:: Stroke [pdf 590kb]
:: Suicide and self-inflicted injuries [pdf 75kb]
:: Syphilis [pdf 100kb]
:: Trachoma [pdf 89kb]
:: Tuberculosis [pdf 38kb]
:: Violence [pdf 75kb]
:: Vision loss and blindness [pdf 198kb]
:: Vitamin A deficiency [pdf 46kb]
:: War and collective violence [pdf 75kb]
:: Whooping cough

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