Abstract
The Global Burden of Diseases, Injuries, and Risk Factors Study (GBD) 2019 provides a rules-based synthesis of the available evidence on levels and trends in health outcomes, a diverse set of risk factors, and health system responses.
L Abreu acknowledges support from Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento
de Pessoal de Nível Superior, Brazil, Finance Code 001 and Conselho
Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico. A Agrawal
acknowledges support from the Wellcome DBT Senior Fellowship
IA/CPHS/14/1/501489. S Aljunid acknowledges the Department of
Health Policy and Management, Faculty of Public Health, Kuwait
University and International Centre for Casemix and Clinical Coding,
Faculty of Medicine, National University of Malaysia for the approval and
support to participate in this research project. A Badawi acknowledges
support from the Public Health Agency of Canada. J Carrero acknowledges
support from the Swedish Research Council (2019-01059). F Carvalho
acknowledges UID/MULTI/04378/2019 and UID/QUI/50006/2019
support with funding from FCT/MCTES through national funds.
A Cohen acknowledges support from the Health Effects Institute, Boston, MA, USA. V Costa acknowledges grant
(SFRH/BHD/110001/2015), received by Portuguese national funds
through Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia, IP, under the Norma
Transitória DL57/2016/CP1334/CT0006. K Deribe acknowledges a grant
from the Wellcome Trust (grant number 201900/Z/16/Z) as part of his
International Intermediate Fellowship. M Freitas acknowledges the
financial support from the European Union (FEDER funds through
COMPETE POCI-01-0145-FEDER-029248) and National Funds
(Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia) through project PTDC/NANMAT/29248/2017. P Hoogar acknowledges Centre for Bio Cultural
Studies, Manipal Academy of Higher Education, Manipal and Centre for
Holistic Development and Research, Kalaghatagi. B-F Hwang was
supported by China Medical University (CMU108-MF-95), Taichung,
Taiwan. M Jakovljevic acknowledges the Serbian part of this GBD Project
related contribution was co-funded through Grant OI175014 of the
Ministry of Education Science and Technological Development of the
Republic of Serbia. C Kieling is a Conselho Nacional de
Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico (CNPq; a Brazilian public
funding agency) researcher and a UK Academy of Medical Sciences
Newton Advanced Fellow. Y J Kim acknowledges support from the
Research Management Centre, Xiamen University Malaysia
(XMUMRF/2018-C2/ITCM/0001). K Krishan is supported by a DST
PURSE grant and UGC Center of Advanced Study (CAS II) awarded to
the Department of Anthropology, Panjab University, Chandigarh, India.
M Kumar is supported by FIC/NIH K43 TW010716. B Lacey
acknowledges support from the National Institute for Health Research
Oxford Biomedical Research Centre and the British Heart Foundation
Centre of Research Excellence, Oxford. T Lallukka is supported by the
Academy of Finland (Grant #319200). I Landires is member of the
Sistema Nacional de Investigación, which is supported by the Secretaría
Nacional de Ciencia tecnología e Innovación, Panama. S Lorkowski is
funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research
(nutriCARD, grant agreement number 01EA1808A). J McGrath
acknowledges support from the Danish National Research Foundation
(Niels Bohr Professorship). W Mendoza acknowledges employment with
Population and Development at the United Nations Population Fund,
Country Office in Peru, which does not necessarily endorse this study.
U Mueller acknowledges funding from the German National Cohort
Study BMBF grant # 01ER1801D. S Nomura acknowledges the Ministry
of Education, Culture, Sports, Science, and Technology of Japan
(18K10082). G Patton is supported by an National Health and Medical
Research Council Fellowship. M Phillips acknowledges partial support
from the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC,
No 81371502 and 81761128031). M Pinheiro acknowledges FCT Fundação
para a Ciência e Tecnologia for funding through program DL 57/2016,
Norma Transitória. A Raggi, D Sattin, and S Schiavolin acknowledge
support by a grant from the Italian Ministry of Health (Ricerca Corrente,
Fondazione Istituto Neurologico C Besta, Linea 4 - Outcome Research:
dagli Indicatori alle Raccomandazioni Cliniche). D Ribeiro acknowledges
support from The Sir Charles Hercus Health Research Fellowship -
Health Research Council of New Zealand (18/111). A Ribeiro
acknowledges partial support by Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento
Científico e Tecnológico (310679/2016-8 and IATS: 465518/2014-1) and by
Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de Minas Gerais
(PPM-00 428-17). P Sachdev acknowledges funding support from
NHMRC Australia. A Samy received a fellowship from the Egyptian
Fulbright Mission program. M Santric-Milicevic acknowledges the
Ministry of Education, Science and Technological Development of the
Republic of Serbia (Contract No 175087). S Islam received funding from
the National Heart Foundation of Australia and Deakin University.
A Sheikh acknowledges Health Data Research UK. K Shibuya
acknowledges the Japan Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science
and Technology. J Soriano acknowledges support from Centro de
Investigación en Red de Enfermedades Respiratorias, Instituto de Salud
Carlos III, Madrid, Spain. R Tabarés-Seisdedos was supported in part by
grant PI17/00719 from ISCIII-FEDER. S Tadakamadla acknowledges
support from National Health and Medical Research Council Early Career
Fellowship, Australia. M Tonelli acknowledges the David Freeze research
chair in health services research at the University of Calgary. See the
component GBD 2019 capstone papers for acknowledgements specific to
each part of the study.