Background Assessing the causes of death across all regions of the world requires a
framework for integrating, and analysing, the fragmentary information that is available on …

OBJECTIVE: The major objective of this study is to provide estimates of diarrhoea mortality
at country, regional and global level by employing the Child Health Epidemiology Reference …

In high-income countries, life expectancy at age 60 years has increased in recent decades.
Falling tobacco use (for men only) and cardiovascular disease mortality (for both men and …

Background Pronounced changes in patterns of health take place in adolescence and
young adulthood, but the effects on mortality patterns worldwide have not been reported. We …

This report provides a comprehensive assessment of the health of the world's population in
2004. Consistent and comparative description of the burden of diseases and injuries is an …

Background Epidemiological transition (ET) theory, first postulated in 1971, has developed
alongside changes in population structures over time. However, understandings of mortality …

Background National malaria death rates are difficult to assess because reliably diagnosed
malaria is likely to be cured, and deaths in the community from undiagnosed malaria could …

The three international standard verbal autopsy questionnaires are intended to serve the
needs of multiple users and producers of mortality information, including researchers, policy …

Summary Background In southern Africa, a substantial health transition is underway, with
the heavy burden of chronic infectious illness (HIV/AIDS and tuberculosis) paralleled by the …

Systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) is a multisystem autoimmune disease more prevalent
in people of African and Asian origin than Caucasian origin. FcγRIIb is an inhibitory Fc …