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Fewer people dying but more live with disability
The Global Burden of Diseases, Injuries, and Risk Factors Study 2010 (GBD 2010), a collaborative project led by the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) at the University of Washington...
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Mortality in the World 1970-2010
The Global Burden of Disease, and Risk Factors Study 2010 (GBD 2010), a project led by the Institute of Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME), University of Washington and published in seven papers in...
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Causes of Death in the World. 1990, 2005, 2010
The article Mortality in the World 1970-2010 highlighted that the mortality in the world has significantly decreased from 1970 to 2010 in general population and specific age groups, which is...
View ArticleNon-Communicable Diseases: Some facts
Non-communicable diseases (NCDs) is a group of conditions that are not mainly caused by an acute infection and are not communicable or contagious, meaning they are not passed from person to person....
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Life Expectancy: progress from 1990 to 2013
Life expectancy is a summary measure of population health. It is the number of years that in average a population at a specific age would expect to live exposed to specific mortality conditions,...
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Overweight and Obesity is Growing at an Alarming Rate
IntroductionThe rising prevalence of overweight and obesity in many countries in the last decades has been identified as a global pandemic which is producing negative impact on population...
View ArticleMy talk at the Global Burden of Disease (GBD) Workshop on Big Data and...
I was invited to participate in the Global Burden of Disease (GBD) Workshop on Big Data and Scientific Computation, where the systematic approach and science behind the GBD Study, the computational...
View ArticleCauses of Maternal Mortality from 1980 to 2013
Maternal death is the death of a woman while pregnant or within 42 days of termination of pregnancy, irrespective of the duration and site of the pregnancy, from any cause related to or aggravated by...
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