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Policy Reports

• Financing Global Health 2009: Tracking Development Assistance for Health

Journal Articles

• Murray CJL, Frenk J. Ranking 37th – Measuring the Performance of the U.S. Health Care System. N Engl J Med 2010. DOI: 10.1056/NEJMp0910064.
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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. The Lancet 2009; doi: 10.1016/S0140-6736(09)61426-4.
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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 October 14, 2009; 7:59 doi: 10.1186/1741-7015-7-59.
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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; 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; doi: 10.1093/aje/kwp144.
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• 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; doi: 10.1093/aje/kwp097.
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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. The Lancet 2009; 373: 2113–24.
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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, Volume 12, Number 3, May 2009: 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, April 28, 2009, Volume 6, Issue 4. (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. Published online April 09, 2009; DOI:10.1016/S0140-6736(09)60239-7. (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;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;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. The Lancet 2008 December 13; 372: 2031-2046. (Abstract only, complete article requires login and password)
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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;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 20 June 2008.
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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 5(6) 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 5(4) e66.
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• Murray, CJL, Frenk, J. Health metrics and evaluation: strengthening the science. The Lancet 2008 April 5; 371 (9619): 1191-1199. (Abstract only, complete article requires login and password)
  
  
• 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*- accessed Feb 25, 2008).
  
  
• 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. The Lancet 2007 Dec 15; 370(9604): 2054-62. (abstract only, complete article requires login and password)
  
  
• 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. The Lancet 2007 Sept 22; 370(9592):1040–54. (abstract only, complete article requires login and password)