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

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 …

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

Background Air pollution is a major planetary health risk, with India estimated to have some
of the worst levels globally. To inform action at subnational levels in India, we estimated the …

Background People everywhere, but particularly those charged with improving the health of
populations, want to know whether human beings are living longer and getting healthier …

Summary Background The Global Burden of Disease Study 2013 (GBD 2013) aims to bring
together all available epidemiological data using a coherent measurement framework …

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 …

We wish to compliment the Global Burden of Diseases, Injuries, and Risk Factors Study
(GBD) Collaborators for their important contributions to global health metrics over the past …

Background Over the past few decades, social and economic changes have had substantial
effects on health and wellbeing in Russia. We aimed to use data from the Global Burden of …