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This book intends to promote and assist professionals to better understand the global burden of disease methodology. It introduces the GBD research thinking and work framework for most public health professionals and to systematically review the development history and characteristics of the GBD method. It focuses to what questions to be answered and how to answer in GBD study.
For each topic, the representative literatures and works of GBD are introduced in the book, these representative literatures were selected by the authors on the basis of reading a large amount of the literature. Based on these representative literature, this book describes how GBD study uses a wide range of source of data sources to achieve its research goals. This way not only makes sure the accuracy of the introduced perspectives and methodology, but also provides a shortcut to the key GBD literature relevant to the topic for people who are unfamiliar with GBD study. As an introduction to the methodology of GBD study, this book interprets the basic methods of GBD study, and helps readers to further read the corresponding literature, understand the methodology and main findings of GBD study, and uses these methods in their own work.
Taking China as a case, this book set a special chapter, to introduce the estimated results of on the disease burden of the Chinese population, and discuss the experience and lessons of GBD study in promoting national policy action.
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Dr. Gonghuan Yang, a Full Professor of public health, a senior epidemiologist on chronic non-communicable diseases and related risk factors, especially focused on tobacco use and environmental pollution. She graduated from West China University in 1982, and studied in Harvard School of public health as research fellow during 1987-1990. She has worked in project of adult health study in developing countries of World Bank and Tobacco Free Initiative of WHO. During 2005-2011, she, as Vice Director General of China CDC, was in charge of NCD control, including surveillance of mortality, morbidity and risk factors, setting up public health information platform, organizing and Tobacco control, assessment between environmental pollution and health, and so on. She is also the book editor of: Atlas of the Huai River Basin Water Environment: Digestive Cancer Mortality, 2014, Springer; Tobacco Control in China, 2018, Springer.
She has also published several papers in prestigious journals such as BMJ, JAMA, Lancet etc., and widely cited, including Rapid health transition in China, 1990-2010: findings from the Global Burden of Disease Study 2010) with almost 2000 citations.
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