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Policy Reports

• Building Momentum: Global Progress Toward Reducing Maternal and Child Mortality
  
  
• Financing Global Health 2009: Tracking Development Assistance for Health

Journal Articles

• Flaxman AD, Fullman N, Otten MW Jr., Menon M, Cibulskis RE, Ng M, Murray CJL, Lim SS. 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. PLoS Medicine. 2010 August 17; 7(8): e1000328.
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• Lim SS, Dandona L, Hoisington JA, James SL, Hogan MC, Gakidou E. India's Janani Suraksha Yojana, a conditional cash transfer programme to increase births in health facilities: an impact evaluation. Lancet. 2010 Jun 4; 375:2009–23.
  News Release
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• Rajaratnam JK, Marcus JR, Flaxman AD, Wang H, Levin-Rector A, Dwyer L, Costa M, Lopez AD, Murray CJL. Neonatal, postneonatal, childhood, and under-5 mortality for 187 countries, 1970–2010: a systematic analysis of progress towards Millennium Development Goal 4. Lancet. 2010 May 24; 375:1988–2008.
  News Release, Figures, & Tables
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• Naghavi M, Makela S, Foreman K, O’Brien J, Pourmalek F, Lozano R. Algorithms for enhancing public health utility of national causes-of-death data. Population Health Metrics. 2010 May 10; 8:9.
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• Rajaratnam JK, Marcus JR, Levin-Rector A, Chalupka AN, Wang H, Dwyer L, Costa M, Lopez AD, Murray CJL. Worldwide mortality in men and women aged 15–59 years from 1970 to 2010: a systematic analysis. Lancet. 2010 Apr 30; 375:1704–20.
  News Release & Table
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• Obermeyer Z, Rajaratnam JK, Park CH, Gakidou E, Hogan MC, Lopez AD, Murray CJL. Measuring Adult Mortality Using Sibling Survival: A New Analytical Method and New Results for 44 Countries, 1974–2006. PLoS Medicine. 2010 Apr 13; 7(4):e1000260.
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• Rajaratnam JK, Tran LN, Lopez AD, Murray CJL . Measuring Under-Five Mortality: Validation of New Low-Cost Methods. PLoS Medicine. 2010 Apr 13; 7(4):e1000253.
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• Murray CJL, Rajaratnam JK, Marcus J, Laakso T, Lopez AD. What Can We Conclude from Death Registration? Improved Methods for Evaluating Completeness. PLoS Medicine. 2010 Apr 13; 7(4):e1000262.
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• Hogan MC, Foreman KJ, Naghavi M, Ahn SY, Wang M, Makela SM, Lopez AD, Lozano R, Murray CJL. Maternal mortality for 181 countries, 1980-2008: a systematic analysis of progress towards Millennium Development Goal 5. Lancet. 2010 Apr 12; 375:1609–23.
  News Release, Figures, & Table
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• Lu C, Schneider MT, Gubbins P, Leach-Kemon K, Jamison D, Murray CJL. Public financing of health in developing countries: a cross-national systematic analysis. Lancet. 2010 Apr 17; 375:1375–87.
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• Naghavi M, Pourmalek F, Shahraz S, Jafari N, Delavar B, Motlagh ME. The burden of injuries in Iranian children in 2005. Population Health Metrics. 2010 Mar 31; 8:5.
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• Danaei G, Rimm EB, Oza S, Kulkarni C, Murray CJL, Ezzati M. 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. PLoS Medicine. 2010 Mar 23; 7(3):e1000248.
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• Murray CJL, Frenk J. Ranking 37th – Measuring the Performance of the U.S. Health Care System. New England Journal of Medicine. 2010 Jan 14; 362:98–99.
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• Birnbaum J, Cowling K, Foreman K, Fullman N, Gubbins P, Levin-Rector A, Makela S, Marcus J, Myerson R, Schneider M. Skeptical optimism: a new take on global health data. Lancet. 2009 Nov 11; 373:2083.
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• Dandona L, Raban MZ, Guggilla RK, Bhatnagar A, Dandona R. Trends of the public health research output from India during 2001-2008. BMC Medicine. 2009 Oct 14; 7:59.
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• Danaei G, Friedman AB, Oza S, Murray CJL, Ezzati M. Diabetes prevalence and diagnosis in US states: analysis of health surveys. Population Health Metrics. 2009 Sep 25; 7:16.
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• Salomon JA, Nordhagen S, Oza S, Murray CJL. Are Americans Feeling Less Healthy? The Puzzle of Trends in Self-rated Health. American Journal of Epidemiology. 2009 Jun 29; 170(3):343–351.
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• Ravishankar N, Gubbins P, Cooley RJ, Leach-Kemon K, Michaud CM, Jamison DT, Murray CJL. Financing of global health: tracking development assistance for health from 1990 to 2007. Lancet. 2009 Jun 20; 373:2113–24.
  News Release & Technical Appendices
  
  
• Ikeda N, Murray CJL, Salomon JA. Tracking Population Health Based on Self-reported Impairments: Trends in the Prevalence of Hearing Loss in US Adults, 1976-2006. American Journal of Epidemiology. 2009 May 18; 170(1):80–87.
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• Naghavi M, Shahraz S, Bhalla K, Jafari N, Pourmalek F, Bartels D, Puthenpurakal JA, Motlagh ME. Adverse Health Outcomes of Road Traffic Injuries in Iran after Rapid Motorization. Archives of Iranian Medicine. 2009 May; 12(3):284–294. (pdf*)
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• Danaei G, Ding EL, Mozaffarian D, Taylor B, Rehm J, Murray CJL, Ezzati M. The Preventable Causes of Death in the United States: Comparative Risk Assessment of Dietary, Lifestyle, and Metabolic Risk Factors. PLoS Medicine. 2009 Apr 28, 2009; 6(4):e1000058. (pdf*)
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• King G, Gakidou E, Imai K, Lakin J, Moore RT, Nall C, Ravishankar N, Vargas M, Téllez-Rojo MM, Hernández Ávila JE, Hernández Ávila M, Hernández Llamas H. Public Policy for the poor? A randomised assessment of the Mexican universal health insurance programme. Lancet. 2009 Apr 9; 373:1447–54. (pdf*)
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• Bleich SN, Özaltin E, Murray CJL. How does satisfaction with the health care system relate to patient experience? Bulletin of the World Health Organization. 2009 Mar 4;87:271–278. (pdf*)
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• Lu C, Chin B, Li G, Murray CJL. Limitations of methods for measuring out-of-pocket and catastrophic private health expenditures. Bulletin of the World Health Organization. 2009 Jan 29; 87:238–244. (pdf*)
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• Lim S, Stein D, Charrow A, Murray CJL. Tracking progress towards universal childhood immunisation and the impact of global initiatives: a systematic analysis of three-dose diphtheria, tetanus, and pertussis immunisation coverage. Lancet. 2008 Dec 13; 372:2031–2046.
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• Bhalla K, Shahraz S, Naghavi M, Lozano R, Murray CJL. Estimating the distribution of external causes in hospital data from injury diagnosis. Accident Analysis and Prevention. 2008 Nov; 40(6):1822–9. (pdf*)
  
  
• Ikeda N, Gakidou E, Hasegawa T, Murray CJL. Understanding the decline of mean systolic blood pressure in Japan: an analysis of pooled data from the National Nutrition Survey, 1986–2002. Bulletin of the World Health Organization. 2008 Sep 17; 86:978–988. (pdf*)
  
  
• Obermeyer Z, Murray CJL, Gakidou E. Fifty years of violent war deaths from Vietnam to Bosnia: Analysis of data from the World Health Survey programme. British Medical Journal. 2008 Jun 20.
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• Gakidou E, Nordhagen S, Obermeyer Z. Coverage of cervical cancer screening in 57 countries: Low average levels and large inequalities. PLoS Medicine. 2008 Jun 17; 5(4):e132.
  
  
• Ezzati M, Friedman AB, Kulkarni SC, Murray CJL. The reversal of fortunes: Trends in county mortality and cross-county mortality disparities in the United States. PLoS Medicine. 2008 Apr 22; 5(4):e66.
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• Murray, CJL, Frenk, J. Health metrics and evaluation: strengthening the science. Lancet. 2008 Apr 5; 371:1191–1199.
  
  
• Obermeyer Z, Abbott-Klafter J, Murray CJL. Has the DOTS strategy improved case finding or treatment success? An empirical assessment. PLoS One. 2008 Mar 5; 3(3):1721–31. (pdf*)
  
  
• Ravishankar N, Lim S, Obermeyer Z, Murray CJL, Gakidou E. Doris Duke Charitable Foundation. PHIT Partnership Implementation Research Framework. Doris Duke Charitable Foundation. 2008. (pdf*)
  
  
• Ezzati M, Oza S, Danaei G, Murray CJL. Trends and cardiovascular mortality effects of state-level blood pressure and uncontrolled hypertension in the United States. Circulation. 2008 Feb 19; 117(7):905–14. (pdf*)
  
  
• Lim SS, Gaziano TA, Gakidou E, Reddy KS, Farzadfar F, Lozano R, Rodgers A. Prevention of cardiovascular disease in high-risk individuals in low-income and middle-income countries: health effects and costs. Lancet. 2007 Dec 15; 370:2054–62.
  
  
• Murray CJL, Lopez AD, Feehan DM, Peter ST, Yang G. Validation of the symptom pattern method for analyzing verbal autopsy data. PLoS Medicine. 2007 Nov 20; 4(11):e327. (pdf*)
  
  
• Murray CJL, Lopez AD, Barofsky JT, Bryson-Cahn C, Lozano R. Estimating population cause-specific mortality fractions from in-hospital mortality: validation of a new method. PLoS Medicine. 2007 Nov 20; 4(11):e326. (pdf*)
  
  
• Murray CJL, Laakso T, Shibuya K, Hill K, Lopez AD. Can we achieve Millennium Development Goal 4? New analysis of country trends and forecasts of under-5 mortality to 2015. Lancet. 2007 Sept 22; 370:1040–54.