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Globalization and Health BioMed Central Commentary Open Access The evolution of the Global Burden of Disease framework for disease, injury and risk factor quantification: developing the evidence base for national, regional and global public health action Alan D Lopez* Address: School of Population Health, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia Email: Alan D Lopez* - a.lopez@.au * Corresponding author Published: 22 April 2005 Received: 28 January 2005 Accepted: 22 April 2005 Globalization and Health 2005, 1:5 doi:10.1186/1744-8603-1-5 This article is available from: /content/1/1/5 © 2005 Lopez; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Abstract Reliable, comparable information about the main causes of disease and injury in populations, and how these are changing, is a critical input for debates about priorities in the health sector. Traditional sources of information about the descriptive epidemiology of diseases, injuries and risk factors are generally incomplete, fragmented and of uncertain reliability and comparability. Lack of a standardized measurement framework to permit comparisons across diseases and injuries, as well as risk factors, and failure to systematically evaluate data quality have impede