The Global Burden of Disease Study has challenged previous systems for comparing the importance of different health problems, said Dellavalle. "Not everybody agrees with this, but it does seem to be disrupting the other sources of data including the World Health Organization and the World Bank because it is the most transparent," he pointed out, with methodology published and data available through the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation website and elsewhere.
"It is great for prioritizing which skin diseases should get more research," Dellavalle said. "There is not as much research going into acne as there should be, if you look at the amount of disability it causes."
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