The field of global public health is increasingly focused on health equity and disease burden, with these being significant issues demanding urgent resolution. Challenges such as uneven economic development, climate change, aging populations, and frequent public health emergencies have heightened the complexity and diversity of health challenges faced by nations worldwide. Since 1990, Global Burden of Disease (GBD) research has provided systematic, comparable global health data that serve as a robust evidence base for quantifying disease burdens and revealing health inequities. Although GBD data and methods are widely utilized in academic research, the translation of this evidence into concrete, actionable health promotion strategies and equitable policies remains a major challenge for countries globally.
This Research Topic aims to unite experts and scholars across disciplines to explore how GBD research outcomes can be harnessed to analyze and address health inequities while promoting evidence-based health policy formulation and implementation. The topic encourages interdisciplinary and cross-field discussions, with particular emphasis on the quantification of disease burdens, socioeconomic disparities, inequitable distribution of resources, health promotion strategies, and relevant policy interventions. By interpreting the theoretical and practical value of GBD research from multiple perspectives, this Research Topic aspires to provide innovative insights and actionable policy recommendations for global health governance, driving more equitable and inclusive health promotion practices, and eventually realizing the vision of shared global health well-being.
This Research Topic seeks to gather further insights within the boundaries of translating disease burden evidence into practice. We welcome articles addressing, but not limited to, the following themes:
• Global disease burden assessment and trend analysis for evidence-based policy foundations;
• Health inequity and social determinants as focal areas for policy intervention;
• Disease burden forecasting and health risk warning to inform forward-looking policies;
• Health promotion and disease prevention interventions driven by global disease burden;
• Global health governance: leveraging disease burden evidence for policy practice.
Keywords: Global Burden of Disease, health equity, policy action, health disparities, evidence-based policy
Important note: All contributions to this Research Topic must be within the scope of the section and journal to which they are submitted, as defined in their mission statements. Frontiers reserves the right to guide an out-of-scope manuscript to a more suitable section or journal at any stage of peer review.
