Data de publicação

2022

Periódico

Revista da Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical

Resumo

To guarantee the well-being of the population of a country, it is necessary to understand the magnitude and distribution of the main health problems. The estimations of disease burden play a key role in allowing managers to perform preventive and healthcare actions guided by scientific evidence. Since 2014, the Global Burden of Disease Study (GBD)-Brasil Network has been analyzing morbidity-mortality in Brazil and its states, thanks to collaboration between the Ministry of Health and the international initiative of the GBD Study powered by the Institute of Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) of the University of Washington.

In addition to inform the estimates to policymakers, the GBD-Brasil Network collaborators have the mission of spreading this initiative into the academic realm. In 2017, the first publication of the results of this venture sought to attain visibility among researchers from the field of public health. The second supplement, published in 2019, aimed to advocate the health metrics analysed by the GBD-Brasil Study.

This third supplement in the Journal of the Brazilian Society of Tropical Medicine focuses on the study of the diseases that depict social inequality within the country. The articles’ diversity of themes reflects the triple disease burden in Brazil, illustrated through the concomitance of infectious and chronic diseases, and external cause.

DOI/link

https://doi.org/10.1590/0037-8682-0622-2021