Background How long one lives, how many years of life are spent in good and poor health,
and how the population's state of health and leading causes of disability change over time …

Background There is a robust understanding of how specific behavioural, metabolic, and
environmental risk factors increase the risk of health burden. However, there is less …

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 …

Objectives We provide a brief introduction to the objectives, data, methods and results of the
World Health Organization (WHO)/International Labor Organization (ILO) Joint Estimates of …

Background People everywhere, but particularly those charged with improving the health of
populations, want to know whether human beings are living longer and getting healthier …

Summary Background The Global Burden of Disease Study 2013 (GBD 2013) aims to bring
together all available epidemiological data using a coherent measurement framework …

Background Air pollution is a major planetary health risk, with India estimated to have some
of the worst levels globally. To inform action at subnational levels in India, we estimated the …

Lifecourse epidemiology is a conceptual model of epidemiological thinking that emerged in
the 1990s and is now a mainstream paradigm in social epidemiology; 1 it focuses on long …

Background The epidemiological transition of non-communicable diseases replacing
infectious diseases as the main contributors to disease burden has been well documented …

Background Over the past few decades, social and economic changes have had substantial
effects on health and wellbeing in Russia. We aimed to use data from the Global Burden of …