C'est pratiquement tout le numéro entier du Lancet du 15 décembre 2012 qui est consacré à un projet débuté en 1990, dont les résultats devraient avoir des impacts sur les priorités de santé de nombreux pays. Le GBD (Global Burden of Diseases) 2010 a été supporté par Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, avec 7 partenaires : Harvard University; the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) at the University of Washington, Seattle; Johns Hopkins University; the University of Queensland; Imperial College London; the University of Tokyo; and WHO. D'habitude, ces données sont publiées dans des rapports d'institutions, comme ceux de l'OMS. La conclusion : "infectious diseases, maternal and child illness, and malnutrition now cause fewer deaths and less illness than they did twenty years ago. As a result, fewer children are dying every year, but more young and middle-aged adults are dying and suffering from disease and injury, as non-communicable diseases, such as cancer and heart disease, become the dominant causes of death and disability worldwide. Since 1970, men and women worldwide have gained slightly more than ten years of life expectancy overall, but they spend more years living with injury and illness."
Un articcle reprend les commentaires des principaux collaborateurs, et commence : "Massive, collaborative, and challenging are just some of the words that the scientists who worked on the Global Burden of Disease Study (GBD) 2010 have used to describe the project. It is not difficult to see why. GBD 2010, involving nearly 500 researchers from more than 300 institutions in 50 countries, has not only been a large data-driven research endeavour but also a huge exercise in diplomacy, management, and leadership. The results are set to shake up health priority setting in countries and the world, providing an unbridled amount of up-to-date, comparable data on the diseases, risk factors, disabilities, and injuries facing populations."
Des podcasts sur ce projet. Des articles ont plus de 100 auteurs, et seuls les résumés sont d'acces libre…
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation n'a pas supporté des coûts supplémentaires pour rendre les données disponibles ? Les titres des articles :
- Age-specific and sex-specific mortality in 187 countries, 1970–2010
- Global and regional mortality from 235 causes of death for 20 age groups in 1990 and 2010
- Common values in assessing health outcomes from disease and injury: disability weights measurement study
- Healthy life expectancy for 187 countries, 1990–2010
- Years lived with disability (YLDs) for 1160 sequelae of 289 diseases and injuries 1990–2010
- Disability-adjusted life years (DALYs) for 291 diseases and injuries in 21 regions, 1990–2010
- A comparative risk assessment of burden of disease and injury attributable to 67 risk factors and risk factor clusters in 21 regions, 1990–2010
