We wish to compliment the Global Burden of Diseases, Injuries, and Risk Factors Study
(GBD) Collaborators for their important contributions to global health metrics over the past …

In 1948, the UN declared adequate access to food, alongside suitable housing and medical
care, to be a basic human right. 1 However, around 1 billion people still have insufficient …

1 GBD 2017 Diet Collaborators. Health effects of dietary risks in 195 countries, 1990–2017:
a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017. Lancet 2019; 393: 1958 …

At the 27th Climate Change Conference of the Parties, António Guterres, the Secretary-
General of the UN, declared that “we are on a highway to climate hell with our foot on the …

Background Reliable and comparable analysis of risks to health is key for preventing
disease and injury. Causal attribution of morbidity and mortality to risk factors has …

1 Davies SC. Annual report of the Chief Medical Officer 2013, public mental health priorities:
investing in the evidence. London: Department of Health, 2014. 2 WHO. Mental health: a …

Summary Background The Global Burden of Diseases, Injuries, and Risk Factors Study
2016 (GBD 2016) provides a comprehensive assessment of risk factor exposure and …

In 2012, as part of the first Lancet Series on physical activity, data from 122 countries and
territories were used to produce the first ever estimate of the global burden of physical …

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 …

Executive summary In the past few decades, major public health advances have happened
in Europe, with drastic decreases in premature mortality and a life expectancy increase of …