The Lancet. Global health
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The Lancet. Global health · Nov 2015
Disability weights for the Global Burden of Disease 2013 study.
The Global Burden of Disease (GBD) study assesses health losses from diseases, injuries, and risk factors using disability-adjusted life-years, which need a set of disability weights to quantify health levels associated with non-fatal outcomes. The objective of this study was to estimate disability weights for the GBD 2013 study. ⋯ European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.
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The Lancet. Global health · Oct 2015
Deaths from acute abdominal conditions and geographical access to surgical care in India: a nationally representative spatial analysis.
Few population-based studies quantify mortality from surgical conditions and relate mortality to access to surgical care in low-income and middle-income countries. ⋯ Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Dalla Lana School of Public Health, Canadian Institute of Health Research.
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The Lancet. Global health · Oct 2015
Mortality risks in children aged 5-14 years in low-income and middle-income countries: a systematic empirical analysis.
Health priorities since the UN Millennium Declaration have focused strongly on children younger than 5 years. The health of older children (age 5-9 years) and younger adolescents (age 10-14 years) has been neglected until recently, especially in low-income and middle-income countries, and mortality measures for these age groups have often been derived from overly flexible models. We report global and regional empirical mortality estimates for children aged 5-14 years in low-income and middle-income countries, and compare them with ones from existing models. ⋯ The Lancet Commission on Investing in Health and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.