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2013

Rapid health transition in China, 1990–2010: findings from the Global Burden of Disease Study 2010
June 6, 2013
UK health performance: findings of the Global Burden of Disease Study 2010
March 4, 2013

2012

Healthy life expectancy for 187 countries, 1990–2010: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2010
December 13, 2012
Common values in assessing health outcomes from disease and injury: disability weights measurement study for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2010
December 13, 2012
Disability‐adjusted life years (DALYs) for 291 diseases and injuries in 21 regions, 1990–2010: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2010
December 13, 2012
Global and regional mortality from 235 causes of death for 20 age groups in 1990 and 2010: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2010
December 13, 2012
A comparative risk assessment of burden of disease and injury attributable to 67 risk factors and risk factor clusters in 21 regions, 1990–2010: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2010
December 13, 2012
Years lived with disability (YLDs) for 1,160 sequelae of 289 diseases and injuries, 1990–2010: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2010
December 13, 2012
Age‐specific and sex‐specific mortality in 187 countries, 1970–2010: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2010
December 13, 2012
In denial: misperceptions of weight change among adults in the United States
August 1, 2012
Developing a comprehensive time series of GDP per capita for 210 countries from 1950 to 2015
July 30, 2012
Characteristics associated with the uptake of influenza vaccination among adults in the United States
March 19, 2012
Global malaria mortality between 1980 and 2010: a systematic analysis
February 2, 2012
Modeling causes of death: an integrated approach using CODEm
January 6, 2012

2011

The global financial crisis has led to a slowdown in growth of funding to improve health in many developing countries
December 14, 2011
Effectiveness of diabetes and hypertension management by rural primary health-care workers (Behvarz workers) in Iran: a nationally representative observational study
December 9, 2011
National and subnational mortality effects of metabolic risk factors and smoking in Iran: a comparative risk assessment
October 11, 2011
Assessment of population-level effect of Avahan, an HIV-prevention initiative in India
October 10, 2011
Progress towards Millennium Development Goals 4 and 5 on maternal and child mortality: an updated systematic analysis
September 19, 2011
Breast and cervical cancer in 187 countries between 1980 and 2010: a systematic analysis
September 14, 2011
Net benefits: a multicountry analysis of observational data examining associations between insecticide-treated mosquito nets and health outcomes
September 6, 2011
Robust metrics for assessing the performance of different verbal autopsy cause assignment methods in validation studies
August 31, 2011
Assessing quality of medical death certification: concordance between gold standard diagnoses and underlying cause of death in selected Mexican hospitals
August 31, 2011
Performance of the Tariff Method: validation of a simple additive algorithm for analysis of verbal autopsies.
August 31, 2011
Simplified Symptom Pattern Method for verbal autopsy analysis: multisite validation study using clinical diagnostic gold standards
August 31, 2011
Population Health Metrics Research Consortium gold standard verbal autopsy validation study: design, implementation, and development of analysis datasets
August 31, 2011
Random forests for verbal autopsy analysis: multisite validation study using clinical diagnostic gold standards
August 31, 2011
Performance of InterVA for assigning causes of death to verbal autopsies: multisite validation study using clinical diagnostic gold standards
August 31, 2011
Direct estimation of cause-specific mortality fractions from verbal autopsies: multisite validation study using clinical diagnostic gold standards
August 31, 2011
Performance of physician-certified verbal autopsies: multisite validation study using clinical diagnostic gold standards
August 31, 2011
Falling behind: life expectancy in US counties from 2000 to 2007 in an international context
June 15, 2011
COMMENTARY - Development assistance for health: trends and prospects
April 13, 2011
Exposing misclassified HIV/AIDS deaths in South Africa
April 1, 2011
Improving the public health utility of global cardiovascular mortality data: the rise of ischemic heart disease
March 15, 2011
Management of diabetes and associated cardiovascular risk factors in seven countries: a comparison of data from national health examination surveys
March 1, 2011
National, regional, and global trends in systolic blood pressure since 1980: systematic analysis of health examination surveys and epidemiological studies with 786 country-years and 5.4 million participants
February 4, 2011
High total serum cholesterol, medication coverage and therapeutic control: an analysis of national health examination survey data from eight countries
February 1, 2011

2010

A novel framework for validating and applying standardized small area measurement strategies
September 23, 2010
Increased educational attainment and its effect on child mortality in 175 countries between 1970 and 2009: a systematic analysis
September 16, 2010
Rapid scaling-up of insecticide-treated bed net coverage in Africa and its relationship with development assistance for health: A systematic synthesis of supply, distribution, and household survey data
August 17, 2010
India’s Janani Suraksha Yojana, a conditional cash transfer programme to increase births in health facilities: an impact evaluation
June 4, 2010
Neonatal, postneonatal, childhood, and under-5 mortality for 187 countries, 1970–2010: a systematic analysis of progress towards Millennium Development Goal 4
May 24, 2010
Algorithms for enhancing public health utility of national causes-of-death data
May 10, 2010
Worldwide mortality in men and women aged 15-59 years from 1970 to 2010: a systematic analysis
April 30, 2010
Public financing of health in developing countries: a cross-national systematic analysis
April 17, 2010
Measuring adult mortality using sibling survival: a new analytical methods and new results for 44 countries, 1974-1996
April 13, 2010
What can we conclude from death registration? A new method for evaluating completeness
April 13, 2010
Measuring under-five mortality: validation of new low-cost methods
April 13, 2010
Maternal mortality for 181 countries, 1980-2008: a systematic analysis of progress towards Millennium Development Goal 5
April 12, 2010
The burden of injuries in Iranian children in 2005
March 31, 2010
The promise of prevention: the effects of four preventable risk factors on national life expectancy and life expectancy disparities by race and county in the United States
March 23, 2010

2009

Diabetes prevalence and diagnosis in US states: analysis of health surveys
September 25, 2009
Are Americans feeling less healthy? The puzzle of trends in self-rated health
June 29, 2009
Financing of global health: tracking development assistance for health from 1990 to 2007
June 20, 2009
Tracking population health based on self-reported impairments: trends in the prevalence of hearing loss in US adults, 1976-2006
May 18, 2009
Adverse health outcomes of road traffic injuries in Iran after rapid motorization
May 1, 2009
The preventable causes of death in the United States: comparative risk assessment of dietary, lifestyle, and metabolic risk factors
April 28, 2009
Public policy for the poor? A randomised assessment of the Mexican universal health insurance programme
April 9, 2009
How does satisfaction with the health care system relate to patient experience?
March 4, 2009
Limitations of methods for measuring out-of-pocket and catastrophic private health expenditures
January 29, 2009

2008

Tracking progress towards universal childhood immunisation and the impact of global initiatives: a systematic analysis of three-dose diphtheria, tetanus, and pertussis immunisation coverage
December 13, 2008
Understanding the decline of mean systolic blood pressure in Japan: an analysis of pooled data from the National Nutrition Survey, 1986-2002
September 17, 2008
Estimating the distribution of external causes in hospital data from injury diagnosis
September 2, 2008
Fifty years of violent war deaths from Vietnam to Bosnia: analysis of data from the world health survey programme
June 20, 2008
Coverage of cervical cancer screening in 57 countries: low average levels and large inequalities
June 17, 2008
The reversal of fortunes: trends in county mortality and cross-county mortality disparities in the United States
April 22, 2008
Has the DOTS strategy improved case finding or treatment success? An empirical assessment
March 5, 2008
Trends and cardiovascular mortality effects of state-level blood pressure and uncontrolled hypertension in the United States
February 19, 2008

2007

Prevention of cardiovascular disease in high-risk individuals in low-income and middle-income countries: health effects and costs
December 15, 2007
Validation of the symptom pattern method for analyzing verbal autopsy data
November 20, 2007
Estimating population cause-specific mortality fractions from in-hospital mortality: validation of a new method
November 20, 2007
Can we achieve Millennium Development Goal 4? New analysis of country trends and forecasts of under-5 mortality to 2015
September 22, 2007
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