Background In an era of shifting global agendas and expanded emphasis on non-
communicable diseases and injuries along with communicable diseases, sound evidence …

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

Background Young people's health has emerged as a neglected yet pressing issue in global
development. Changing patterns of young people's health have the potential to undermine …

Background How long one lives, how many years of life are spent in good and poor health,
and how the population's state of health and leading causes of disability change over time …

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

BACKGROUND: The Global Burden of Disease Study represents a large and systematic
effort to describe the burden of diseases and injuries over the past 3 decades. We aimed to …

Background Healthy life expectancy (HALE) and disability-adjusted life-years (DALYs)
provide summary measures of health across geographies and time that can inform …

Background We used data from the Global Burden of Diseases, Injuries, and Risk Factors
Study 2010 (GBD 2010) to estimate the burden of disease attributable to mental and …

Background Measuring disease and injury burden in populations requires a composite
metric that captures both premature mortality and the prevalence and severity of ill-health …

Background Quantification of the disease burden caused by different risks informs
prevention by providing an account of health loss different to that provided by a disease-by …