Global Burden of Diseases, Injuries and Risk Factors Study Operations Manual
Final Draft - January 20, 2009
The final draft of the Global Burden of Diseases, Injuries and Risk Factors Study Operations Manual is now available. It is intended to serve as a guide for the Expert Groups working on the GBD Study. There are opportunities to provide input and feedback, and instructions to do so are included in the operations manual.
Available online as PDF file [142p.] at: http://www.globalburden.org/GBD_Study_Operations_Manual_Jan_20_2009.pdf
“…..The GBD Study will focus on more than 220 diseases and injuries and more than 43 risk factors for 21 regions of the world. The GBD Study will not only serve to systematically incorporate the evidence on each major disease and risk factor into a coherent set of epidemiological estimates.
It will also provide an opportunity for concerted work on new age- and sex-specific mortality estimates, disability weight measurement, estimates of probabilities of disabling sequelae, standardization of tools and methods for resolving inconsistencies, dealing with missing data and quantifying uncertainty.
The GBD Study will conduct epidemiological reviews of all diseases, injuries, and risk factors; estimate mortality and causes of death for all countries in the world; derive new disability weights for an updated list of disabling sequelae, all leading to final, consistent and comprehensive estimates of the burden of diseases, injuries and risk factors for 1990 and 2005….”
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Chapter 1: Introduction
Chapter 2: Participating Institutions
Chapter 3: Products and Deliverables
Chapter 4: Management Structure, Flow Diagrams, and Timeline
Chapter 5: Roles and Responsibilities
Chapter 6: Core Team Members
Chapter 7: External Advisory Board Members
Chapter 8: Analysis and Presentation of Regions
Chapter 9: Age Groups
Chapter 10: Mortality Envelopes (All-Cause Mortality)
Chapter 11: Causes of Death
Chapter 12: Concepts and Definitions for Quantifying Burden of Diseases, Injuries, and Risk Factors
Chapter 13: The GBD Study Cause Lists: Diseases and Injuries, Risk Factors, and Diseases as Risks
Chapter 14: Sequelae Definitions and Selection Criteria
Chapter 15: Disability Weights
Chapter 16: Years Lived with Disability (YLD) Estimation for Diseases and Injuries
Chapter 17: Using DisMod to Estimate Missing Epidemiological Parameters and Check Internal Consistency
Chapter 18: Comparative Risk Assessment and Diseases as Risk Factors
Chapter 19: Systematic Review
Chapter 20: Dealing with Bias and Missing Data
Chapter 21: Describing and Analyzing Uncertainty
Chapter 22: Publication Peer Review Process and Principles
If you have questions or comments about this or other aspects of the GBD Study, contact Rebecca Cooley, Project Officer at the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation at the
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