Further reading and references

Murray and Lopez (2013) and Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (2013) provide overviews of the 2010 GBD study. Murray, Ezzati, Flaxman et al. (2012) is a detailed discussion of the assumptions and methods that it used.

 

Ezzati M, AD Lopez, A Rodgers and CJ Murra, eds. (2004). Comparative Quantification of Health Risks: Global and regional burden of disease attribution to selected major risk factors. Geneva: World Health Organization.

Foreman KJ, R Lozano, AD Lopez and CJ Murray (2012). Modeling causes of death: an integrated approach using CODEm, Public Health Metrics 10(1). doi: 10.1186/1478-7954-10-1

Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (2013). The Global Burden of Disease: Generating Evidence, Guiding Policy. Seattle, WA: IHME.

Lopez AD, CD Mathers, M Ezzati, DT Jamison and CJ Murray, eds. (2006a). Global Burden of Disease and Risk Factors. Washington DC: The World Bank.

Lopez AD, CD Mathers, M Ezzati, DT Jamison and CJL Murray (2006b). Global and regional burden of disease and risk factors, 2001: systematic analysis of population health data, The Lancet 367(9524):1747-1757.

Murray CJ, M Ezzati, AD Flaxman, S Lim, R Lozano, C Michaud, M Naghavi, JA Salomon, K Shibuya et al. (2012). Comprehensive systematic analysis of global epidemiology: Definitions, methods, simplification of DALYs, and comparative results from the Global Burden of Disease Study 2010 (Web supplement to: GBD 2010: design, definitions, and metrics), Lancet 380(9859).

Murray CJ and AD Lopez, eds. (1994). Global Comparative Assessments in the Health Sector. Geneva: World Health Organization.

Murray CJL and AD Lopez, eds. (1996). The Global Burden of Disease: a Comprehensive Assessment of Mortality and Disability from Diseases, Injuries, and Risk Factors in 1990 and projected to 2020. Cambridge: Harvard University Press.

Murray CJL and AD Lopez (1997). Global mortality, disability, and the contribution of risk factors: Global Burden of Disease Study, The Lancet 349(9063):1436-1442. >

Murray CJL and AD Lopez (2013). Measuring the Global Burden of Disease, New England Journal of Medicine 369(5):448-457.

Murray CJL, T Vos, R Lozano, M Naghavi, AD Flaxman, C Michaud, M Ezzati, K Shibuya, JA Salomon et al. (2012). Disability-adjusted life years (DALYs) for 291 diseases and injuries in 21 regions, 1990-2010: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2010, The Lancet 380(9859):2197-2223

Salomon JA, T Vos, DR Hogan, M Gagnon, M Naghavi, A Mokdad, N Begum, R Shah, M Karyana et al. (2012). Common values in assessing health outcomes from disease and injury: disability weights measurement study for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2010, The Lancet 380(9859):2129-2143.

Salomon JA, H Wang, MK Freeman, T Vos, AD Flaxman, AD Lopez and CJL Murray (2012). Healthy life expectancy for 187 countries, 1990-2010: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden Disease Study 2010, The Lancet 380(9859):2144-2162.

Wang H, L Dwyer-Lindgren, KT Lofgren, JK Rajaratnam, JR Marcus, A Levin-Rector, CE Levitz, AD Lopez and CJL Murray (2012). Age-specific and sex-specific mortality in 187 countries, 1970-2010: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2010", The Lancet 380(9859):2071-2094.

World Bank (1993). World Development Report 1993. Investing in Health. New York: Oxford University Press.