Editorial: Global Burden of Disease Study 2010: A Real Advance in Global Descriptive Epidemiology: Perspective For Developing Countries

T he Global Burden of Disease Study 2010 (GBD 2010) is to date the largest epidemiologic study on major illnesses and injuries. The study includes several millions of observations on risk factors, causes of death, mortality, injury and disease incidence and prevalence during a 5 year period with more than 400 contributing scientists across the globe.