… challenges by building statistical analytical tools that directly … -walking—namely, the statistical
relationship among matched … this statistical cross-walk is used to pre-process data that use …

… comparability of 2016 statistics between Global Health Estimates (GHE) and Global Health
Data … Nevertheless, this is not really surprising considering that the two registries use different …

… burden has been rising over the past decades. In this article, we examine and describe the
global burden … Throughout we use the terms transitioning, emerging and lower HDI countries/…

… burden as global average 65-year-olds. To approximate an age of equivalence, we set the
age-related disease burden rate of global … age-related disease burden rate to the reference. …

… As this contribution focuses on the global burden of mental and addictive disorders, we will
not use a … in the cause of death statistics. The underlying cause of deaths in GBD or the WHO …

… and methods in quantifying the global burden of mental illness. … statistical life approach to
economic valuation, we determine … , we use GBD estimates of prevalence to derive both global- …

… The latter is a means to assess the cancer burden at varying levels of development (low,
medium, high, and very high HDIs). Throughout the article, we use the terms transitioning, …

… In summary, we found that alcohol use causes a substantial burden of cancer, a burden that
… All statistical code (ie, R code) and input files used to produce the results presented in this …

… This paper uses estimates from the Global Burden of Disease Study 2016 to describe patterns
of suicide mortality globally, regionally, and for 195 countries and territories, by age, sex, …

… We also assumed that stroke units were present based on the use of this term. However, …
statistics provide evidence of variation among countries and changing magnitudes of burden …