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Q.What is a 'global burden of disease'?

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GBD measures both premature deaths from a disease and the years lived in disability because of it; India carries a disproportionately large 20% share, mostly from communicable diseases.

The Global Burden of Disease (GBD) is an indicator used by health experts to measure the total impact of diseases on a population. It captures two things together:

  1. the number of people dying prematurely because of a particular disease; and
  2. the number of years they spend in a state of 'disability' owing to that disease. …
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