The Global Burden of Diseases, Injuries, and Risk Factors (GBD) enterprise is a systematic,
scientific effort to quantify the comparative magnitude of health loss due to diseases, injuries …

Urbanisation is one of the leading global trends of the 21st century and the UN predicts that
seven in ten people will live in urban areas by 2050. 1 With hasty global urbanisation, the …

Objectives This study provides a detailed analysis of the global and regional burden of
cancer due to occupational carcinogens from the Global Burden of Disease 2016 study …

Summary Background The eastern Mediterranean region is comprised of 22 countries:
Afghanistan, Bahrain, Djibouti, Egypt, Iran, Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Morocco …

This report uses a comprehensive framework for studying health risks that was developed
for the World Health Report 2002, which presented estimates for the year 2000. The report …

The Global Burden of Disease Study (GBD) 2010 advanced the evidence base in health by
producing comparable estimates for 291 diseases and injuries, 1160 sequelae, and 67 risk …

Objectives To consider the data shortcomings and methodological decisions involved in
current burden of disease studies and the potential for these to be overcome and/or …

Background Mortality from chronic diseases has increased in Iran. Our aim was to estimate
the effects of smoking and high systolic blood pressure (SBP), fasting plasma glucose (FPG) …

Background A comprehensive understanding of temporal trends in the disease burden in
Australia is lacking, and these trends are required to inform health service planning and …

Background Previous studies have reported national and regional Global Burden of Disease
(GBD) estimates for the UK. Because of substantial variation in health within the UK, action …