The Global Burden of Diseases, Injuries, and Risk Factors Study (GBD) 2016 on neurological disorders published in The Lancet Neurology is another milestone in the history of global health metrics.1 The GBD enterprise, as it has been referred to, grew from the 1990 World Bank study that was commissioned to comprehensively measure the status of world health. Coauthored by the now head of the Institute of Health Metrics Evaluations (IHME), Chris Murray, the 1990 study set the benchmark for successive studies.
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