Background China has undergone rapid demographic and epidemiological changes in the
past few decades, including striking declines in fertility and child mortality and increases in …

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 Prevention and control of disease and injury require information about the
leading medical causes of illness and exposures or risk factors. The assessment of the …

1.1 Background A consistent and comparative description of the burden of diseases and
injuries, and the risk factors that cause them, is an important input to health decision-making …

Background Reliable and timely information on the leading causes of death in populations,
and how these are changing, is a crucial input into health policy debates. In the Global …

Background From 1990 to 2016, the mortality of children younger than 5 years decreased by
more than half, and there are plentiful data regarding mortality in this age group through …

Background Traditional metrics for population health ageing tend not to differentiate
between extending life expectancy and adding healthy years. A population ageing metric …

Summary Background South Korea has one of the longest operating universal health
coverage (UHC) systems. A comprehensive analysis of long-term trajectories of morbidity …

Background The mortality burden in children aged 5–14 years in the WHO European
Region has not been comprehensively studied. We assessed the distribution and trends of …

Background With global survival increasing for children younger than 5 years of age,
attention is required to reduce the approximately 1 million deaths of children aged 5–14 …