Five insights from the global burden of disease study 2019

CJL Murray, C Abbafati, KM Abbas, M Abbasi… - The Lancet, 2020 - thelancet.com
Summary The Global Burden of Diseases, Injuries, and Risk Factors Study (GBD) 2019
provides a rules-based synthesis of the available evidence on levels and trends in health …

A framework for identifying and mitigating the equity harms of COVID-19 policy interventions

RE Glover, MCI van Schalkwyk, EA Akl… - Journal of clinical …, 2020 - Elsevier
Abstract Background Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is a global pandemic.
Governments have implemented combinations of “lockdown” measures of various …

[HTML][HTML] Association between maternity leave policies and postpartum depression: a systematic review

L Hidalgo-Padilla, M Toyama, JH Zafra-Tanaka… - Archives of Women's …, 2023 - Springer
Purpose Working mothers are at greater risk for postpartum depression. Maternity leave
characteristics, including length, wage replacement and employment protection, could have …

Climate change, inequality, and human migration

M Burzyński, C Deuster, F Docquier… - Journal of the …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
This paper investigates the long-term implications of climate change on global migration and
inequality. Accounting for the effects of changing temperatures, sea levels, and the …

[HTML][HTML] Mapping subnational HIV mortality in six Latin American countries with incomplete vital registration systems

Local Burden of Disease HIV Collaborators ladwyer … - Bmc Medicine, 2021 - Springer
Background Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) remains a public health priority in Latin
America. While the burden of HIV is historically concentrated in urban areas and high-risk …

[HTML][HTML] Mapping routine measles vaccination in low-and middle-income countries

Nature, 2021 - nature.com
The safe, highly effective measles vaccine has been recommended globally since 1974, yet
in 2017 there were more than 17 million cases of measles and 83,400 deaths in children …

[HTML][HTML] Monitoring global development aid with machine learning

M Toetzke, N Banholzer, S Feuerriegel - Nature Sustainability, 2022 - nature.com
Monitoring global development aid provides important evidence for policymakers financing
the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). To overcome the limitations of existing …

Development of prediction models to identify hotspots of schistosomiasis in endemic regions to guide mass drug administration

BJ Singer, JT Coulibaly, HJ Park… - Proceedings of the …, 2024 - National Acad Sciences
Schistosomiasis is a neglected tropical disease affecting over 150 million people. Hotspots
of Schistosoma transmission—communities where infection prevalence does not decline …

[HTML][HTML] Mapping inequalities in exclusive breastfeeding in low-and middle-income countries, 2000–2018

NV Bhattacharjee, LE Schaeffer, SI Hay - Nature Human Behaviour, 2021 - nature.com
Exclusive breastfeeding (EBF)—giving infants only breast-milk for the first 6 months of life—
is a component of optimal breastfeeding practices effective in preventing child morbidity and …

[HTML][HTML] Prevalence of stunting and relationship between stunting and associated risk factors with academic achievement and cognitive function: A cross-sectional …

J Beckmann, C Lang, R du Randt, A Gresse… - International journal of …, 2021 - mdpi.com
Childhood stunting can have negative long-term consequences on cognitive development,
academic achievement, and economic productivity later in life. We determined the …