Global Burden of Diseases: Cursed For Public Health

Abstract It is challenging to provide in effect and high-quality care to patients without knowing their diagnoses; similarly, for health systems to be effective, it is needed to appreciate the important challenges in efforts to develop population health and how these challenges are varying. Before the early 1990s, there was no inclusive and inside dependable source of information on the global burden of diseases. To close by this gap, the World Bank and the World Health Organization sprang the Global Burden of Disease (GBD) Study in 1991. A comprehensive and inclusive burden of disease report must be based on a reliable set of estimations for mortality and morbidity. For this reason the Global Burden of Diseases, Injuries and Risk Factors project (GBD) aims to measure population health worldwide. The World Health Organization (WHO) has subsequently produced estimates of GBD for the years 1999, 2000. The benefit of the GBD method is that reliable methods are functional to critically evaluate available information on each condition, make this information equivalent and systematic, estimation results from countries with incomplete data, and report on the burden of disease with the use of standardized metrics. The overall burden of disease is evaluated by means of the disability-adjusted life year (DALY), a time-based measure that associates years of life lost due to premature mortality (YLLs) and years of life lost due to time lived in states of less than full health, or years of healthy life lost due to disability (YLDs).