Should the GBD risk factor rankings be used to guide policy?

摘要

The Global Burden of Disease Study 2010 (GBD 2010) estimates provide important new insights. Alongside estimates of health burden attributable to 291 diseases and injuries, Stephen Lim and colleagues estimate the health burden associated with 67 risk factors, organised into a hierarchy of clusters. So as to distinguish real changes in global burden and risk factors from changes in methods, they not only estimated the burden and risk factor ranking for 2010, but also recalculated estimates for 1990. This study represents the work of several expert working groups, who led systematic reviews of the health effects and prevalence of each risk factor.