Background Population-level health and mortality data are crucial for evidence-informed
policy but scarce in Nigeria. To fill this gap, we undertook a comprehensive assessment of …

Summary Background The Global Burden of Diseases, Injuries, and Risk Factors Study
(GBD) 2016 provided comprehensive estimates of health loss globally. Decision makers in …

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 …

Background Understanding health trends and estimating the burden of disease at the
national and subnational levels helps policy makers track progress and identify disparities in …

Background Although the burden of disease in sub-Saharan Africa continues to be
dominated by infectious diseases, countries in this region are undergoing a demographic …

Background The poor health of South Africans is known to be associated with a quadruple
disease burden. In the second National Burden of Disease (NBD) study, we aimed to …

Background Over the last 30 years, South Africa has experienced four 'colliding epidemics'
of HIV and tuberculosis, chronic illness and mental health, injury and violence, and …

Background Analysing trends and levels of the burden of disease at the national level can
mask inequalities in health-related progress in lower administrative units such as provinces …

Background Since 1990, health priorities in sub-Saharan Africa (SSAF) have been set
primarily by epidemics of infectious diseases. For future global health efforts, it is important …

Background Availability of data to assess the population health and provision and quality of
health care in Saudi Arabia has been lacking. In 2010, Saudi Arabia began a major …