Background Achievement of high coverage of effective interventions and Millennium
Development Goals (MDGs) 4 and 5A requires adequate financing. Many of the 68 priority …

Background Neurological disorders account for a large and increasing health burden
worldwide, as shown in the Global Burden of Diseases (GBD) Study 2016. Unpacking how …

Summary Background The eastern Mediterranean region is comprised of 22 countries:
Afghanistan, Bahrain, Djibouti, Egypt, Iran, Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Morocco …

The under-5 mortality rate has declined from 93 deaths per 1000 live births in 1990 to 39 per
1000 live births in 2018. This improvement in child survival warrants an examination of age …

Background The Global Burden of Diseases, Injuries, and Risk Factors Study 2016 (GBD
2016) provides a comprehensive assessment of risk factor exposure and attributable burden …

Background Information about the distribution of causes of and time trends for child mortality
should be periodically updated. We report the latest estimates of causes of child mortality in …

Background Estimation of the number and rate of deaths by age and sex is a key first stage
for calculation of the burden of disease in order to constrain estimates of cause-specific …

In 1993 the World Bank sponsored a study to assess the global burden of disease in
collaboration with the World Health Organization (WHO) and the Harvard School of Public …

GBD 2010: a multi-investigator collaboration for global comparative descriptive
epidemiology - The Lancet Skip to Main Content Advertisement The Lancet Journal This …

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 …