TY - JOUR T1 - How global burden of disease can shine light on the state of the world's children JF - Archives of Disease in Childhood JO - Arch Dis Child SP - 1175 LP - 1175 DO - 10.1136/archdischild-2016-312179 VL - 101 IS - 12 A2 - , Y1 - 2016/12/01 UR - http://adc.bmj.com/content/101/12/1175.abstract N2 - The Lancet have chosen to devote an entire issue to the 2015 Global Burden of Disease (GBD) project (2016;vol 388:no.10053). This massive piece of work is a collaboration between The Lancet and the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME), and is impressive in its ambition. They have successfully collated a huge range of important health outcome data on from virtually every country on the globe. The issue contains 6 papers, 3 commentaries, an editorial and a special report. By using ‘big data’, and analysing year-on-year trends, they are able to put important health issues in both … ER -