Five insights from the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019

• Published in: The Lancet (British edition) Vol. 396; no. 10258; pp. 1135 - 1159
• Main Authors: Abbafati, Cristiana, Abdollahi, Mohammad, Abedi, Parisa, Abreu, Lucas Guimarães, Alanezi, Fahad Mashhour, Alizade, Hesam, Amini, Saeed, Ancuceanu, Robert, Ansari, Fereshteh, Appiah, Seth Christopher Yaw, Ayala Quintanilla, Beatriz Paulina, Azari, Samad, Barker-Collo, Suzanne Lyn, Basaleem, Huda, Basu, Sanjay, Baune, Bernhard T, Bayati, Mohsen, Bedi, Neeraj, Beghi, Ettore, Bhattarai, Suraj, Bijani, Ali, Brady, Oliver J, Brenner, Hermann, Busse, Reinhard, Butt, Zahid A, Cárdenas, Rosario, Charlson, Fiona J, Cherbuin, Nicolas, Deuba, Keshab, Diaz, Daniel, Dokova, Klara, Doshi, Pratik P, Ehrlich, Joshua R, Faro, Andre, Ferrara, Pietro, Fischer, Florian, Furtado, João M, Geramo, Yilma Chisha Dea, Godinho, Myron Anthony, Guimarães, Rafael Alves, Gupta, Subodh Sharan, Haj-Mirzaian, Arvin, Hassankhani, Hadi, Hosgood, H Dean, Huda, Tanvir M, Ilic, Milena D, Kalani, Rizwan, Kanchan, Tanuj, Kapoor, Neeti, Khan, Gulfaraz, Khoja, Abdullah T, Kosen, Soewarta, KS, Shaji, Lalloo, Ratilal, Malta, Deborah Carvalho, Mansouri, Borhan, Mansournia, Mohammad Ali, Martins-Melo, Francisco Rogerlândio, Masoumi, Seyedeh Zahra, Massenburg, Benjamin Ballard, Mehndiratta, Man Mohan, Mestrovic, Tomislav, Mirica, Andreea, Misganaw, Awoke Temesgen, Mohammad, Yousef, Morawska, Lidia, Najafi, Farid, Negoi, Ionut, Nixon, Molly R, Patton, George C, Piccinelli, Cristiano, Piradov, Michael A, Postma, Maarten J, Pourmalek, Farshad, Rasella, Davide, Rawat, Ramu, Razo, Christian, Salem, Hosni, Sarrafzadegan, Nizal, Sepanlou, Sadaf G, Sheikh, Aziz, Shibuya, Kenji, Shigematsu, Mika, Shiri, Rahman, Shivakumar, K M, Shrime, Mark G, Simonetti, Biagio, Singh, Jasvinder A, Sliwa, Karen, Tang, Muming, Travillian, Ravensara, Upadhyay, Era, Venketasubramanian, Narayanaswamy, Yearwood, Jamal A, Younker, Theodore Patrick, Zamanian, Maryam, Zastrozhin, Mikhail Sergeevich, Ziapour, Arash, Zimsen, Stephanie R M, Lim, Stephen S
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: England Elsevier Ltd 17.10.2020; Elsevier Limited
• Subjects: Age; Birth Rate; Delivery of Health Care - economics; Delivery of Health Care - statistics & numerical data; Development strategies; Disability; Economic development; Economic growth; Expenditures; Female; GDP; Global Burden of Disease - economics; Global Burden of Disease - trends; Global health; Global Health - trends; Gross Domestic Product; Health and Welfare; Health care; Humans; Hälsa och välfärd; Male; Mortality; Noncommunicable Diseases - epidemiology; Outcome Assessment, Health Care - statistics & numerical data; Outcome Assessment, Health Care - trends; Outdoor air quality; Population growth; Public health; Risk analysis; Risk Factors; Smoking; Socioeconomic Factors; Trends; Womens health; Wounds and Injuries - epidemiology; United States > US
• ISSN: 0140-6736; 1474-547X; 1474-547X
• DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(20)31404-5

The Global Burden of Diseases, Injuries, and Risk Factors Study (GBD) 2019 provides a rules-based synthesis of the available evidence on levels and trends in health outcomes, a diverse set of risk factors, and health system responses. GBD 2019 covered 204 countries and territories, as well as first administrative level disaggregations for 22 countries, from 1990 to 2019. Because GBD is highly standardised and comprehensive, spanning both fatal and non-fatal outcomes, and uses a mutually exclusive and collectively exhaustive list of hierarchical disease and injury causes, the study provides a powerful basis for detailed and broad insights on global health trends and emerging challenges. GBD 2019 incorporates data from 281 586 sources and provides more than 3·5 billion estimates of health outcome and health system measures of interest for global, national, and subnational policy dialogue. All GBD estimates are publicly available and adhere to the Guidelines on Accurate and Transparent Health Estimate Reporting. From this vast amount of information, five key insights that are important for health, social, and economic development strategies have been distilled. These insights are subject to the many limitations outlined in each of the component GBD capstone papers.