Background The UK has had universal free health care and public health programmes for
more than six decades. Several policy initiatives and structural reforms of the health system …

Summary Background In the Global Burden of Disease Study 2013 (GBD 2013), knowledge
about health and its determinants has been integrated into a comparable framework to …

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 …

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 Geographical differences in health outcomes are reported in many countries.
Norway has led an active policy aiming for regional balance since the 1970s. Using data …

Background Since 2010, the rate of improvement in life expectancy in the UK has slowed.
We aimed to put this trend in the context of changes over the long term and in relation to a …

Summary Background The Nordic countries have commonalities in gender equality,
economy, welfare, and health care, but differ in culture and lifestyle, which might create …

Background Following the economic crisis in Greece in 2010, the country's ongoing austerity
measures include a substantial contraction of health-care expenditure, with reports of …

Scholarly Article or Book Chapter | Global, regional, and national disability-adjusted life-years
(DALYs) for 315 diseases and injuries and healthy life expectancy (HALE), 1990–2015: a …

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 …