The Oxford Textbook of Global Public Health is the ultimate resource on the subject of public
health and epidemiology. The sixth edition has been thoroughly revised and updated …

Background: The development of global HIV estimates has been critical for understanding,
advocating for and funding the HIV response. The process of generating HIV estimates has …

Background Future trends in disease burden and drivers of health are of great interest to
policy makers and the public at large. This information can be used for policy and long-term …

Objectives: To evaluate the global and country-level burden of HIV/AIDS relative to 291
other causes of disease burden from 1980 to 2010 using the Global Burden of Disease …

Abstract Background Global Burden of Diseases, Injuries, and Risk Factors Study 2010
results show continued limitations of data quality and availability in most of the African …

Global Public Health: a new era is a comprehensive updated account of the international
state of public health, including an agenda for improving the practice of the discipline across …

The risk factor “unsafe sex” has been defined here as sex between a susceptible person and
a partner who has a sexually transmitted infection (STI), without taking measures to prevent …

Background: The Global Burden of Diseases, Injuries, and Risk Factors Study 2015 provides
an up-to-date synthesis of the evidence for risk factor exposure and the attributable burden …

Ao longo dos séculos, a saúde humana tem melhorado porque a ciência tem nos ajudado a
compreender as principais causas de doenças que afetam as populações. Ao mesmo …

Background While there is a long history of measuring death and disability from injuries,
modern research methods must account for the wide spectrum of disability that can occur in …