Methodology

The Global Burden of Disease Operations Manual, 31 January 2008 PDF

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Click on the links below to view PDFs outlining the methodology used by the Mental Disorders and Illicit Drug Use work group. Each major step of the process is described in a separate document.


Methodology Part 1: Overview

Methodology Part 2: Systematic Review

Mental Disorders update of Methodology Part 2




Illicit Drugs Methodology Part 3: Data Extraction

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Global Burden of Disease Timeline

2007-2008
Systematic reviews

18 July 2008
Deadline for draft case definitions and lay descriptions - for review by Theo Vos

25-29 August 2008
Cluster C Conference, Gold Coast Australia
- Present update to the group
- Discuss issues and challenges

3-5 September 2008
Mental Disorders and Illicit Drug Use expert group methodological issues meeting, Arlington USA
Discussion of methodological issues

30 November 2008
Deadline for preliminary datasets (extraction complete)

16-20 February 2009
Expert group leaders meeting, Seattle USA
- Present update and begin peer review process

27 February 2009
Deadline for preliminary (revised) lay descriptions

27 April 2009
Final deadline for the lay descriptions before translation for the community surveys

31 May 2009
Illicit drugs group set final deadline for contributions of data (emailed)

30 June 2009
Final deadline for cleaned and complete data sets

June 2009
DISMODIII training for Cluster C representatives, Seattle USA

July 2009
DISMODIII training for Expert Group research teams

July 2009-2010
Deriving regional estimates

2010
All GBD work completed by expert groups

November 2010
Date of GBD Lancet publication