TY - JOUR KW - Neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) KW - Disability KW - DALY AU - Hotez P AU - Alvarado M AU - áñez G AU - Bolliger I AU - Bourne R AU - Boussinesq M AU - Brooker S AU - Brown AS AU - Buckle G AU - Budke C AU - Carabin H AU - Coffeng L AU - èvre EM AU - ürst T AU - Halasa YA AU - Jasrasaria R AU - Johns N AU - Keiser J AU - King C AU - Lozano R AU - Murdoch M AU - O'Hanlon S AU - Pion S AU - Pullan R AU - Ramaiah K AU - Roberts T AU - Shepard DS AU - Smith JL AU - Stolk W AU - Undurraga E AU - Utzinger J AU - Wang M AU - Murray C AU - Naghavi M AU - Silva NR AB -

The publication of the Global Burden of Disease Study 2010 (GBD 2010) and the accompanying collection of Lancet articles in December 2012 provided the most comprehensive attempt to quantify the burden of almost 300 diseases, injuries, and risk factors, including neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) [1]–[3]. The disability-adjusted life year (DALY), the metric used in the GBD 2010, is a tool which may be used to assess and compare the relative impact of a number of diseases locally and globally [4]–[6]. Table 1 lists the major NTDs as defined by the World Health Organization (WHO) [7] and their estimated DALYs [1]. With a few exceptions, most of the NTDs currently listed by the WHO [7] or those on the expanded list from PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases [8] are disablers rather than killers, so the DALY estimates represent one of the few metrics available that could fully embrace the chronic effects of these infections.

BT - PLoS neglected tropical diseases DO - 10.1371/journal.pntd.0002865 IS - 7 J2 - PLoS Negl Trop Dis LA - eng N2 -

The publication of the Global Burden of Disease Study 2010 (GBD 2010) and the accompanying collection of Lancet articles in December 2012 provided the most comprehensive attempt to quantify the burden of almost 300 diseases, injuries, and risk factors, including neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) [1]–[3]. The disability-adjusted life year (DALY), the metric used in the GBD 2010, is a tool which may be used to assess and compare the relative impact of a number of diseases locally and globally [4]–[6]. Table 1 lists the major NTDs as defined by the World Health Organization (WHO) [7] and their estimated DALYs [1]. With a few exceptions, most of the NTDs currently listed by the WHO [7] or those on the expanded list from PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases [8] are disablers rather than killers, so the DALY estimates represent one of the few metrics available that could fully embrace the chronic effects of these infections.

PY - 2014 EP - e2865 T2 - PLoS neglected tropical diseases TI - The global burden of disease study 2010: Interpretation and implications for the neglected tropical diseases. UR - http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4109880/pdf/pntd.0002865.pdf VL - 8 ER -