The Burden of Disease framework sheds light on various health outcomes that contribute to overall burden of disease in a community. The framework was originally developed by the IP3 team in partnership with Kaiser Permanente, and refined over time in working with hospitals and health care institutions engaged in Community Health Needs Assessment. Burden of disease refers to death and loss of health due to diseases, injuries, and risk factors; domains in this framework reflect leading causes of morbidity, mortality, and disability and quality of life.

It helps users consider the burden of different diseases on communities and explores traditional population health outcomes. Application of this framework exposes good and poor health outcomes in a given community and identifies priorities to invest in to decrease and prevent disease.

This framework is built from 12 domains and roughly 105 data indicators.