Background Burden of disease analyses quantify population health and provide
comprehensive overviews of the health status of countries or specific population groups. The …

Reliable, comparable information about the main causes of disease and injury in
populations, and how these are changing, is a critical input for debates about priorities in the …

Background Air pollution is the sixth highest risk factor for attributable disability-adjusted life-
years (DALYs) in North Africa and the Middle East, but the relative importance of different …

Debates about health priorities are likely to be better informed if there is a reasonable
understanding among policy makers of the comparative importance of various diseases and …

Environmental epidemiology has proven critical to study various associations between
environmental exposures and adverse human health effects. However, there is a perception …

Background Understanding potential trajectories in health and drivers of health is crucial to
guiding long-term investments and policy implementation. Past work on forecasting has …

The epidemiological transition and rapid changes in disease patterns have posed serious
challenges to health-care systems and forced difficult decisions about the allocation of …

Up-to-date estimates of current and projected future cancer burden attributable to various
exposures are essential for planning and implementing cancer prevention initiatives. The …

Background Long-term and comparative assessments of trends in non-communicable
disease (NCD) burden attributable to metabolic risk are sparse. This study aimed to assess …

Assessment of Population Health Risks of Policies Gabriel Guliš, Odile Mekel, Balázs Ádám,
and Liliana Cori, editors Public health continues to evolve as professionals work not only to …