Summary Background The Global Burden of Disease Study 2013 (GBD 2013) aims to bring
together all available epidemiological data using a coherent measurement framework …

Background Healthy life expectancy (HALE) and disability-adjusted life-years (DALYs)
provide summary measures of health across geographies and time that can inform …

Background How long one lives, how many years of life are spent in good and poor health,
and how the population's state of health and leading causes of disability change over time …

Background Measuring disease and injury burden in populations requires a composite
metric that captures both premature mortality and the prevalence and severity of ill-health …

Background Measurement of changes in health across locations is useful to compare and
contrast changing epidemiological patterns against health system performance and identify …

Background: Measurement of changes in health across locations is useful to compare and
contrast changing epidemiological patterns against health system performance and identify …

Background Healthy life expectancy (HALE) and disability-adjusted life-years (DALYs)
provide summary measures of health across geographies and time that can inform …

Background Detailed, comprehensive, and timely reporting on population health by
underlying causes of disability and premature death is crucial to understanding and …

BACKGROUND: Summary measures of health are essential in making estimates of health
status that are comparable across time and place. They can be used for assessing the …

Summary Background Many countries, including India, seek locally constructed disease
burden estimates comprising mortality and loss of health to aid priority setting for the …