… Although HIV, HBV and HCV are associated with cocaine and amphetamine dependence,
we examined burden of injecting drug use overall due to these viruses, rather than specific …

… available through expanded vital statistics systems, improved … This second application of the
global burden of disease … and the use of a common metric to summarize the disease burden …

infection in neonates very early and start ART shortly after birth, a prolonged period without
ART, and perhaps even a functional cure in some children, can be expected. In conclusion, …

… After treatment of data quality, the GBD 2016 Study used a variety of statistical models to
determine the number of deaths per each cause, mainly by use of the Cause of Death …

… We live in an age where we are inundated with statistics. More often than not, most of these
… The GBD study uses information collected from ongoing data collection systems throughout …

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… in survey reports available on websites of national statistical agencies. There are likely to be …

… 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, …

… Burden of disease estimates have been even more important … Since the end of 2007, a new
global project—Global Burden … It aims to provide regional and global estimates of the burden …

… I assess the methods used, focusing on high fertility countries and the use of met need for …
Modern contraceptive use refers to the proportion of women who use a modern method of …

… regular updates on the GBD as a statistical annex to the World Health Report, … global burden
of disability and premature mortality occurs in the developing world, less than 4% of global …