Executive summary Over the past four decades, rapid urbanisation in China has brought
unprecedented health benefits to its urban population, but has also created new challenges …

The burden of cardiovascular (CV) disease is very high in China, due to highly prevalent
and poorly controlled risk factors resulting from changing sociodemographic structure and …

The rapid aging of populations around the world presents an unprecedented set of
challenges: shifting disease burden, increased expenditure on health and long-term care …

We develop and calibrate a dynamic production function model to assess how
noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) will affect US productive capacity in 2015–2050. In this …

Objective We aimed to describe the mortality burden and macroeconomic effects of head
and neck cancer as well as delineate the role of surgical workforce in improving head and …

Background To understand the full impact of stunting in childhood it is important to consider
the long-run effects of undernutrition on the outcomes of adults who were affected in early …

We propose a novel framework to analyze the macroeconomic impact of non-communicable
diseases. We incorporate measures of disease prevalence into a human capital augmented …

Stroke is the second leading cause of death and the third leading cause of disability
worldwide. Though the burden of stroke worldwide seems to have declined in the past three …

Background Despite large geographical disparities in the prevalence of cigarette smoking
across the USA, there is a paucity of state-level estimates of economic loss attributable to …

Background Most individuals developing tuberculosis (TB) are working age adults living in
low-and middle-income countries (LMICs). The resulting disability and death impact …