Objective To quantify and compare the contribution of 306 diseases and injuries to the
changes in health adjusted life expectancy at birth (HALE 0) between 1990 and 2013 …

Background: The aim of the present study was to use the extensive Global Burden of
Diseases, Injuries, and Risk Factors Study (GBD) database from 1990–2017 to evaluate the …

Background Influencing the life-style risk-factors alcohol, body mass index (BMI), and
smoking is an European Union (EU) wide objective of public health policy. The population …

Background: Cardiovascular disease is the leading cause of death worldwide and a major
barrier to sustainable human development. The objective of this study was to evaluate the …

Background The Global Burden of Diseases (GBD), Injuries, and Risk Factors study used
the disability-adjusted life year (DALY) to quantify the burden of diseases, injuries, and risk …

Background Assessments of age-specific mortality and life expectancy have been done by
the UN Population Division, Department of Economics and Social Affairs (UNPOP), the …

Background Updated data on chronic respiratory diseases (CRDs) are vital in their
prevention, control, and treatment in the path to achieving the third UN Sustainable …

Background Peer-reviewed literature on health is almost exclusively published in English,
limiting the uptake of research for decision making in francophone African countries. We …

Abstract Background The European Union (EU) faces many health-related challenges.
Burden of diseases information and the resulting trends over time are essential for health …

Background This paper examines changes in substance use, and compares the resulting
attributable burden of disease in the WHO European Region between 2010 and 2016 …