Background Reliable information on causes of death is essential to the development of
national and international health policies for prevention and control of disease and injury …

Background Prevention and control of disease and injury require information about the
leading medical causes of illness and exposures or risk factors. The assessment of the …

Background Our aim was to calculate the global burden of disease and risk factors for 2001,
to examine regional trends from 1990 to 2001, and to provide a starting point for the analysis …

Background Assessing the causes of death across all regions of the world requires a
framework for integrating, and analysing, the fragmentary information that is available on …

Background Child survival efforts can be effective only if they are based on accurate
information about causes of deaths. Here, we report on a 4-year effort by WHO to improve …

Background Reliable and timely information on the leading causes of death in populations,
and how these are changing, is a crucial input into health policy debates. In the Global …

Cause-of-death statistics are available for virtually the entire population of the developed
world (1.17 billion in 1985) and thus estimates of the mortality pattern in these countries can …

Mortality statistics systems provide basic information on the levels and causes of mortality in
populations. Only a third of the world's countries have complete civil registration systems that …

Demographic estimation techniques suggest that worldwide about 50 million deaths occur
each year, of which about 39 million are in the developing countries. In countries with …