GBD is a great resource but I kind of wish the disability weights were a bit more meaningful. As it is, according to GBD 2010 cannabis dependency is a third as bad as being dead.
The way they calculate them is pretty cool though.
I just saw this on some guy's twitter.
I wasn't surprised about osteoarthritis being such a big problem, but I was surprised to see it spelled 'ostearthritis'. I don't know if that's an error of just non-standard.
Iran, writes Smith, found that traffic injury was its leading preventable cause of health loss in 2003
This will not surprise anyone who's seen that video of the giant intersection in Tehran.
It's amazing how far down the list "unarmed participant in human wave attack" has fallen.
Probably because I live somewhere with tons of water.
4: Or the ISIS recruiting video with the deaf guys doing traffic warden duties.