Background Up-to-date evidence about levels and trends in disease and injury incidence,
prevalence, and years lived with disability (YLDs) is an essential input into global, regional …

Lifecourse epidemiology is a conceptual model of epidemiological thinking that emerged in
the 1990s and is now a mainstream paradigm in social epidemiology; 1 it focuses on long …

Background Public health is a priority for the Chinese Government. Evidence-based
decision making for health at the province level in China, which is home to a fifth of the …

Background Peer-reviewed literature on health is almost exclusively published in English,
limiting the uptake of research for decision making in francophone African countries. We …

Objectives We provide a brief introduction to the objectives, data, methods and results of the
World Health Organization (WHO)/International Labor Organization (ILO) Joint Estimates of …

Background Non-fatal health outcomes from diseases and injuries are a crucial
consideration in the promotion and monitoring of individual and population health. The …

Background: The Global Burden of Disease (GBD) study, coordinated by the Institute for
Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME), produces influential, data-driven estimates of the …

Background Reliable information on causes of death is essential to the development of
national and international health policies for prevention and control of disease and injury …

Publication of the Global Burden of Disease Study 2010 (GBD 2010) is a landmark event for
this journal and, we hope, for health. The collaboration of 486 scientists from 302 institutions …

Background: Measurement of changes in health across locations is useful to compare and
contrast changing epidemiological patterns against health system performance and identify …