Environmental risks are a substantial factor in the current burden of disease, and their role is
likely to increase in the future. Model-based scenario analysis is used extensively in …

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

Objective To describe the temporal and spatial trends of mortality and disability adjusted life
years (DALYs) due to chronic respiratory diseases, by age and sex, across the world during …

Background To help adapt cardiovascular disease risk prediction approaches to low-income
and middle-income countries, WHO has convened an effort to develop, evaluate, and …

Background Prevention, control, and treatment of respiratory tract cancers are important
steps towards achieving target 3.4 of the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)—a …

Background Combinations of lifestyle factors interact to increase mortality. Combinations of
traditional factors such as smoking and alcohol are well described, but the additional effects …

Ao longo dos séculos, a saúde humana tem melhorado porque a ciência tem nos ajudado a
compreender as principais causas de doenças que afetam as populações. Ao mesmo …

In this Series paper, we review the contributions of One Health approaches (ie, at the human–
animal–environment interface) to improve global health security across a range of health …

Executive summary The 2015 Lancet Commission on Health and Climate Change has been
formed to map out the impacts of climate change, and the necessary policy responses, in …

To describe and assess the risk of bias of the primary input studies that underpinned the
Global Burden of Disease Study (GBD) 2019 modelled prevalence estimates of low back …