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Marital status, educational attainment, and suicide risk: a Norwegian register-based population study

The presence and quality of social ties can influence suicide risk. In adulthood, the most common provider of such ties is one’s partner. As such, the link between marital status and suicide is well-documented...

Authors: Carine Øien-Ødegaard, Lars Johan Hauge and Anne Reneflot

A cost study for mobile phone health surveys using interactive voice response for assessing risk factors of noncommunicable diseases

This is the first study to examine the costs of conducting a mobile phone survey (MPS) through interactive voice response (IVR) to collect information on risk factors for noncommunicable diseases (NCD) in thre...

Authors: Andres I. Vecino-Ortiz, Madhuram Nagarajan, Kenneth Roger Katumba, Shamima Akhter, Raymond Tweheyo, Dustin G. Gibson, Joseph Ali, Elizeus Rutebemberwa, Iqbal Ansary Khan, Alain Labrique and George W. Pariyo

Hospital utilization rates for influenza and RSV: a novel approach and critical assessment

Influenza and respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) contribute significantly to the burden of acute lower respiratory infection (ALRI) inpatient care, but heterogeneous coding practices and availability of inpatie...

Authors: Emily K. Johnson, Dillon Sylte, Sandra S. Chaves, You Li, Cedric Mahe, Harish Nair, John Paget, Tayma van Pomeren, Ting Shi, Cecile Viboud and Spencer L. James

The relative importance and stability of disease burden causes over time: summarizing regional trends on disease burden for 290 causes over 28 years

Since the Global Burden of Disease study (GBD) has become more comprehensive, data for hundreds of causes of disease burden, measured using Disability Adjusted Life Years (DALYs), have become increasingly avai...

Authors: Henry Dyson, Raf Van Gestel and Eddy van Doorslaer

Generating age-specific mortality statistics from incomplete death registration data: two applications of the empirical completeness method

The study aims to assess two approaches that apply the empirical completeness method to generate age-specific mortality statistics from incomplete death registration systems.

Authors: Tim Adair and Alan D Lopez

Determining the sex-specific distributions of average daily alcohol consumption using cluster analysis: is there a separate distribution for people with alcohol dependence?

It remains unclear whether alcohol use disorders (AUDs) can be characterized by specific levels of average daily alcohol consumption. The aim of the current study was to model the distributions of average dail...

Authors: Huan Jiang, Shannon Lange, Alexander Tran, Sameer Imtiaz and Jürgen Rehm

A Bayesian spatio-temporal analysis of mortality rates in Spain: application to the COVID-19 2020 outbreak

The number of deaths attributable to COVID-19 in Spain has been highly controversial since it is problematic to tell apart deaths having COVID as the main cause from those provoked by the aggravation by the vi...

Authors: Pedro Saavedra, Angelo Santana, Luis Bello, José-Miguel Pacheco and Esther Sanjuán

Impact of 2017 ACC/AHA guideline on prevalence, awareness, treatment, control, and determinants of hypertension: a population-based cross-sectional study in southwest of Iran

In 2017, the American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association (ACC/AHA) provided a new guideline for hypertension prevention and management. We aimed to update the prevalence, awareness, control, and ...

Authors: Fatemeh Sadeghi, Bahman Cheraghian, Zahra Mohammadi, Sadaf G. Sepanlou, Sahar Masoudi, Zahra Rahimi, Leila Danehchin, Yousef Paridar, Farhad Abolnezhadian, Mohammad Noori, Seyed Ali Mard, Ali Akbar Shayesteh and Hossein Poustchi

Estimating causes of out-of-hospital deaths in China: application of SmartVA methods

Most deaths in China occur at home, making it difficult to collect reliable cause of death (CoD) information. Verbal autopsy (VA) was applied using the SmartVA tool to a sample of home deaths in China to explo...

Authors: Jinlei Qi, Tim Adair, Hafizur R. Chowdhury, Hang Li, Deirdre McLaughlin, Yunning Liu, Jiangmei Liu, Xinying Zeng, Jinling You, Sonja Firth, Renee Sorchik, Peng Yin, Lijun Wang, Maigeng Zhou and Alan D. Lopez

Inequality of weight status in urban Cuba: 2001–2010

Although understanding changes in the body weight distribution and trends in obesity inequality plays a key role in assessing the causes and persistence of obesity, limited research on this topic is available ...

Authors: Peng Nie, Lanlin Ding, Alfonso Sousa-Poza, Alina Alfonso Leon, Hong Xue, Peng Jia, Liang Wang and Youfa Wang

The utility of self-rated health in population surveys: the role of bodyweight

Self-rated health (SRH) is one of the most commonly used summary measures of overall health and well-being available to population scientists due to its ease of administration in large-scale surveys and to its...

Authors: Robert Bozick

Changes in liver-related mortality by etiology and sequelae: underlying versus multiple causes of death

The expanded definition of liver-related deaths includes a wide range of etiologies and sequelae. We compared the changes in liver-related mortality by etiology and sequelae for different age groups between 20...

Authors: Ming-Jen Sheu, Fu-Wen Liang, Ching-Yih Lin and Tsung-Hsueh Lu

How do Japanese rate the severity of different diseases and injuries?—an assessment of disability weights for 231 health states by 37,318 Japanese respondents

Disability weights (DWs) are weight factors that reflect the severity of health states for estimates of disability-adjusted life years. A new set of global DWs was published for the Global Burden of Diseases a...

Authors: Shuhei Nomura, Yoshiko Yamamoto, Daisuke Yoneoka, Juanita A. Haagsma, Joshua A. Salomon, Peter Ueda, Rintaro Mori, Damian Santomauro, Theo Vos and Kenji Shibuya

Correction to: The cross-sectional average length of healthy life (HCAL): a measure that summarizes the history of cohort health and mortality

An amendment to this paper has been published and can be accessed via the original article.

Authors: Markus Sauerberg, Michel Guillot and Marc Luy

Public health implications of vaping in the USA: the smoking and vaping simulation model

Nicotine vaping products (NVPs) are increasingly popular worldwide. They may provide public health benefits if used as a substitute for smoking, but may create public health harms if used as a gateway to smoki...

Authors: David T. Levy, Jamie Tam, Luz María Sanchez-Romero, Yameng Li, Zhe Yuan, Jihyoun Jeon and Rafael Meza

Cancer incidence estimation from mortality data: a validation study within a population-based cancer registry

Population-based cancer registries are required to calculate cancer incidence in a geographical area, and several methods have been developed to obtain estimations of cancer incidence in areas not covered by a...

Authors: Daniel Redondo-Sánchez, Miguel Rodríguez-Barranco, Alberto Ameijide, Francisco Javier Alonso, Pablo Fernández-Navarro, Jose Juan Jiménez-Moleón and María-José Sánchez

Birthweight data completeness and quality in population-based surveys: EN-INDEPTH study

Low birthweight (< 2500 g) is an important marker of maternal health and is associated with neonatal mortality, long-term development and chronic diseases. Household surveys remain an important source of popul...

Authors: Gashaw Andargie Biks, Hannah Blencowe, Victoria Ponce Hardy, Bisrat Misganaw Geremew, Dessie Abebaw Angaw, Alemakef Wagnew, Solomon Mekonnen Abebe, Tadesse Guadu, Justiniano S.D. Martins, Ane Baerent Fisker, Md. Ali Imam, Obed Ernest A. Nettey, Simon Kasasa, Lydia Di Stefano, Joseph Akuze, Doris Kwesiga…

Gestational age data completeness, quality and validity in population-based surveys: EN-INDEPTH study

Preterm birth (gestational age (GA) <37 weeks) is the leading cause of child mortality worldwide. However, GA is rarely assessed in population-based surveys, the major data source in low/middle-income countrie...

Authors: M. Moinuddin Haider, Kaiser Mahmud, Hannah Blencowe, Tahmeed Ahmed, Joseph Akuze, Simon Cousens, Nafisa Delwar, Ane B. Fisker, Victoria Ponce Hardy, S. M. Tafsir Hasan, Md. Ali Imam, Dan Kajungu, Md Alfazal Khan, Justiniano S. D. Martins, Quamrun Nahar, Obed Ernest A. Nettey…

Barriers and enablers to reporting pregnancy and adverse pregnancy outcomes in population-based surveys: EN-INDEPTH study

Risks of neonatal death, stillbirth and miscarriage are highest in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs), where data has most gaps and estimates rely on household surveys, dependent on women reporting these...

Authors: Doris Kwesiga, Charlotte Tawiah, Md Ali Imam, Adane Kebede Tesega, Tryphena Nareeba, Yeetey A K Enuameh, Gashaw A. Biks, Grace Manu, Alexandra Beedle, Nafisa Delwar, Ane B. Fisker, Peter Waiswa, Joy E. Lawn and Hannah Blencowe

Birth, stillbirth and death registration data completeness, quality and utility in population-based surveys: EN-INDEPTH study

Birth registration is a child’s first right. Registration of live births, stillbirths and deaths is foundational for national planning. Completeness of birth registration for live births in low- and middle-inc...

Authors: Simon Kasasa, Davis Natukwatsa, Edward Galiwango, Tryphena Nareeba, Collins Gyezaho, Ane Baerent Fisker, Mezgebu Yitayal Mengistu, Francis Dzabeng, M. Moinuddin Haider, Judith Yargawa, Joseph Akuze, Angela Baschieri, Claudia Cappa, Debra Jackson, Joy E. Lawn, Hannah Blencowe…

Stillbirth outcome capture and classification in population-based surveys: EN-INDEPTH study

Household surveys remain important sources of stillbirth data, but omission and misclassification are common. Classifying adverse pregnancy outcomes as stillbirths requires accurate reporting of vital status a...

Authors: Hannah Blencowe, Matteo Bottecchia, Doris Kwesiga, Joseph Akuze, M. Moinuddin Haider, Edward Galiwango, Francis Dzabeng, Ane B. Fisker, Yeetey Akpe Kwesi Enuameh, Bisrat Misganaw Geremew, Tryphena Nareeba, Susannah Woodd, Alexandra Beedle, Kimberly Peven, Simon Cousens, Peter Waiswa…

Termination of pregnancy data completeness and feasibility in population-based surveys: EN-INDEPTH study

Termination of pregnancy (TOP) is a common cause of maternal morbidity and mortality in low- and middle-income countries. Population-based surveys are the major data source for TOP data in LMICs but are known ...

Authors: Yeetey Akpe Kwesi Enuameh, Francis Dzabeng, Hannah Blencowe, Sanne M. Thysen, Solomon Mekonnen Abebe, Kwaku Poku Asante, Charlotte Tawiah, Vladimir Sergeevich Gordeev, Wisdom Adeapena, Doris Kwesiga, Simon Kasasa, Charles Zandoh, Md. Ali Imam, Seeba Amenga-Etego, Sam K. Newton, Seth Owusu-Agyei…

Stillbirth maternity care measurement and associated factors in population-based surveys: EN-INDEPTH study

Household surveys remain important sources of maternal and child health data, but until now, standard surveys such as Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS) have not collected information on maternity care for w...

Authors: Lydia Di Stefano, Matteo Bottecchia, Judith Yargawa, Joseph Akuze, M. Moinuddin Haider, Edward Galiwango, Francis Dzabeng, Ane B. Fisker, Bisrat Misganaw Geremew, Simon Cousens, Joy E. Lawn, Hannah Blencowe and Peter Waiswa

Paradata analyses to inform population-based survey capture of pregnancy outcomes: EN-INDEPTH study

Paradata are (timestamped) records tracking the process of (electronic) data collection. We analysed paradata from a large household survey of questions capturing pregnancy outcomes to assess performance (timi...

Authors: Vladimir Sergeevich Gordeev, Joseph Akuze, Angela Baschieri, Sanne M. Thysen, Francis Dzabeng, M. Moinuddin Haider, Melanie Smuk, Michael Wild, Michael M. Lokshin, Temesgen Azemeraw Yitayew, Solomon Mokonnen Abebe, Davis Natukwatsa, Collins Gyezaho, Seeba Amenga-Etego, Joy E. Lawn and Hannah Blencowe

Electronic data collection in a multi-site population-based survey: EN-INDEPTH study

Electronic data collection is increasingly used for household surveys, but factors influencing design and implementation have not been widely studied. The Every Newborn-INDEPTH (EN-INDEPTH) study was a multi-s...

Authors: Sanne M. Thysen, Charlotte Tawiah, Hannah Blencowe, Grace Manu, Joseph Akuze, M. Moinuddin Haider, Nurul Alam, Temesgen Azemeraw Yitayew, Angela Baschieri, Gashaw A. Biks, Francis Dzabeng, Ane B. Fisker, Md. Ali Imam, Justiniano S. D. Martins, Davis Natukwatsa, Joy E. Lawn…

Four decades of measuring stillbirths and neonatal deaths in Demographic and Health Surveys: historical review

Worldwide, an estimated 5.1 million stillbirths and neonatal deaths occur annually, 98% in low- and middle-income countries. Limited coverage of civil and vital registration systems necessitates reliance on wo...

Authors: Joseph Akuze, Simon Cousens, Joy E. Lawn, Peter Waiswa, Vladimir Sergeevich Gordeev, Fred Arnold, Trevor Croft, Angela Baschieri and Hannah Blencowe

Neonatal and child mortality data in retrospective population-based surveys compared with prospective demographic surveillance: EN-INDEPTH study

Global mortality estimates remain heavily dependent on household surveys in low- and middle-income countries, where most under-five deaths occur. Few studies have assessed the accuracy of mortality data or det...

Authors: Tryphena Nareeba, Francis Dzabeng, Nurul Alam, Gashaw A. Biks, Sanne M. Thysen, Joseph Akuze, Hannah Blencowe, Stephane Helleringer, Joy E. Lawn, Kaiser Mahmud, Temesgen Azemeraw Yitayew and Ane B. Fisker

Pregnancy intention data completeness, quality and utility in population-based surveys: EN-INDEPTH study

An estimated 40% of pregnancies globally are unintended. Measurement of pregnancy intention in low- and middle-income countries relies heavily on surveys, notably Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS), yet few ...

Authors: Judith Yargawa, Kazuyo Machiyama, Victoria Ponce Hardy, Yeetey Enuameh, Edward Galiwango, Kassahun Gelaye, Kaiser Mahmud, Sanne M. Thysen, Damazo T. Kadengye, Vladimir Sergeevich Gordeev, Hannah Blencowe, Joy E. Lawn, Angela Baschieri and John Cleland

Count Every Newborn: EN-INDEPTH study to improve pregnancy outcome measurement in population-based surveys

Authors: Stephen M. Tollman, Peter Byass, Peter Waiswa, Hannah Blencowe, Judith Yargawa and Joy E. Lawn

Is the lack of smartphone data skewing wealth indices in low-income settings?

Smartphones have rapidly become an important marker of wealth in low- and middle-income countries, but international household surveys do not regularly gather data on smartphone ownership and these data are ra...

Authors: Mathieu J. P. Poirier, Till Bärnighausen, Guy Harling, Ali Sié and Karen A. Grépin

Smoking and inequalities in mortality in 11 European countries: a birth cohort analysis

To study the trends of smoking-attributable mortality among the low and high educated in consecutive birth cohorts in 11 European countries.

Authors: Di Long, Johan Mackenbach, Pekka Martikainen, Olle Lundberg, Henrik Brønnum-Hansen, Matthias Bopp, Giuseppe Costa, Katalin Kovács, Mall Leinsalu, Maica Rodríguez-Sanz, Gwenn Menvielle and Wilma Nusselder

The impact of family planning on maternal mortality in Indonesia: what future contribution can be expected?

Although efforts to reduce high maternal mortality in countries such as Indonesia tend to focus on addressing health risks among pregnant women, family planning has been shown globally to reduce maternal morta...

Authors: Budi Utomo, Purwa Kurnia Sucahya, Nohan Arum Romadlona, Annette Sachs Robertson, Riznawaty Imma Aryanty and Robert Joseph Magnani

Comparisons of individual- and area-level socioeconomic status as proxies for individual-level measures: evidence from the Mortality Disparities in American Communities study

Area-level measures are often used to approximate socioeconomic status (SES) when individual-level data are not available. However, no national studies have examined the validity of these measures in approxima...

Authors: Jennifer L. Moss, Norman J. Johnson, Mandi Yu, Sean F. Altekruse and Kathleen A. Cronin

Linking household surveys and facility assessments: a comparison of geospatial methods using nationally representative data from Malawi

Linking facility and household surveys through geographic methods is a popular technique to draw conclusions about the relationship between health services and population health outcomes at local levels. These...

Authors: Michael A. Peters, Diwakar Mohan, Patrick Naphini, Emily Carter and Melissa A. Marx

Frequent use of emergency departments and chronic conditions in ageing societies: a retrospective analysis based in Italy

Most western countries are facing relevant demographic changes, and the percentage of older people is destined to rise in the next decades. This fact is likely to affect the sustainability of healthcare system...

Authors: Enrico di Bella, Luca Gandullia, Lucia Leporatti, Walter Locatelli, Marcello Montefiori, Luca Persico and Roberta Zanetti

Social network-based measurement of abortion incidence: promising findings from population-based surveys in Nigeria, Cote d’Ivoire, and Rajasthan, India

Monitoring abortion rates is highly relevant for demographic and public health considerations, yet its reliable estimation is fraught with uncertainty due to lack of complete national health facility service s...

Authors: Suzanne O. Bell, Mridula Shankar, Elizabeth Omoluabi, Anoop Khanna, Hyacinthe Kouakou Andoh, Funmilola OlaOlorun, Danish Ahmad, Georges Guiella, Saifuddin Ahmed and Caroline Moreau

A latent class analysis of attitudes concerning the acceptability of intimate partner violence in rural Senegal

Research concerning the causes and consequences of intimate partner violence (IPV), particularly in less developed areas of the world, has become prominent in the last two decades. Although a number of potenti...

Authors: John Sandberg, Rosalind Fennell, Yacine Boujija, Laetitia Douillot, Valerie Delaunay, Simona Bignami, Wubin Xie, Cheikh Sokhna and Steven Rytina

Assessing coverage of essential maternal and child health interventions using health-facility data in Uganda

Nationally representative household surveys are the gold standard for tracking progress in coverage of life-saving maternal and child interventions, but often do not provide timely information on coverage at t...

Authors: Elizabeth M. Simmons, Kavita Singh, Jamiru Mpiima, Manish Kumar and William Weiss

Measuring the prevalence of 60 health conditions in older Australians in residential aged care with electronic health records: a retrospective dynamic cohort study

The number of older Australians using aged care services is increasing, yet there is an absence of reliable data on their health. Multimorbidity in this population has not been well described. A clear picture ...

Authors: Kimberly E. Lind, Magdalena Z. Raban, Lindsey Brett, Mikaela L. Jorgensen, Andrew Georgiou and Johanna I. Westbrook

Trends in prevalence and mortality burden attributable to smoking, Brazil and federated units, 1990 and 2017

The present study sought to analyze smoking prevalence and smoking-attributable mortality estimates produced by the 2017 Global Burden of Disease Study for Brazil, 26 states, and the Federal District.

Authors: Deborah Carvalho Malta, Luisa Sorio Flor, Ísis Eloah Machado, Mariana Santos Felisbino-Mendes, Luisa Campos Caldeira Brant, Antonio Luiz Pinho Ribeiro, Renato Azeredo Teixeira, Eduardo Marques Macário, Marissa B. Reitsma, Scott Glenn, Mohsen Naghavi and Emmanuela Gakidou

The GBD Brazil network: better information for health policy decision-making in Brazil

Authors: Deborah Carvalho Malta, Valéria Maria de Azeredo Passos, Ísis Eloah Machado, Maria de Fatima Marinho Souza and Antonio Luiz P. Ribeiro

Association between firearms and mortality in Brazil, 1990 to 2017: a global burden of disease Brazil study

Brazil leads the world in number of firearm deaths and ranks sixth by country in rate of firearm deaths per 100,000 people. This study aims to analyze trends in and burden of mortality by firearms, according t...

Authors: Deborah Carvalho Malta, Adauto Martins Soares Filho, Isabella Vitral Pinto, Maria Cecília de Souza Minayo, Cheila Marina Lima, Ísis Eloah Machado, Renato Azeredo Teixeira, Otaliba Libânio Morais Neto, Roberto Marini Ladeira, Edgar Merchan-Hamann, Maria de Fatima Marinho de Souza, Cíntia Honório Vasconcelos, Carlos Cezar Flores Vidotti, Ewerton Cousin, Scott Glenn, Catherine Bisignano…

Trends in prevalence, mortality, and morbidity associated with high systolic blood pressure in Brazil from 1990 to 2017: estimates from the “Global Burden of Disease 2017” (GBD 2017) study

Hypertension remains the leading risk factor for cardiovascular disease (CVD) worldwide, and its impact in Brazil should be assessed in order to better address the issue. We aimed to describe trends in prevale...

Authors: Bruno Ramos Nascimento, Luísa Campos Caldeira Brant, Simon Yadgir, Gláucia Maria Moraes Oliveira, Gregory Roth, Scott Devon Glenn, Meghan Mooney, Mohsen Naghavi, Valéria Maria Azeredo Passos, Bruce Bartholow Duncan, Diego Augusto Santos Silva, Deborah Carvalho Malta and Antonio Luiz Pinho Ribeiro

Trends in mortality due to non-communicable diseases in the Brazilian adult population: national and subnational estimates and projections for 2030

Monitoring and reducing premature mortality due to non-communicable diseases (NCDs) is a global priority of Agenda 2030. This study aimed to describe the mortality trends and disability-adjusted life years (DA...

Authors: Deborah Carvalho Malta, Bruce Bartholow Duncan, Maria Inês Schmidt, Renato Teixeira, Antonio Luiz Pinho Ribeiro, Mariana Santos Felisbino-Mendes, Ísis Eloah Machado, Gustavo Velasquez-Melendez, Luisa Campos Caldeira Brant, Diego Augusto Santos Silva, Valéria Maria de Azeredo Passos, Bruno R Nascimento, Ewerton Cousin, Scott Glenn and Mohsen Naghavi

The burden of disease among Brazilian older adults and the challenge for health policies: results of the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017

Brazil is the world’s fifth most populous nation, and is currently experimenting a fast demographic aging process in a context of scarce resources and social inequalities. To understand the health profile of o...

Authors: Valéria Maria de Azeredo Passos, Ana Paula Silva Champs, Renato Teixeira, Maria Fernanda Furtado Lima-Costa, Renata Kirkwood, Renato Veras, Bruno Ramos Nascimento, Ana Maria Nogales, Maria Inês Schmidt, Bruce Bartholow Duncan, Ewerton Cousin, Mohsen Naghavi and Fatima Marinho Souza

Comparative analysis of completeness of death registration, adult mortality and life expectancy at birth in Brazil at the subnational level

Estimates of completeness of death registration are crucial to produce estimates of life tables and population projections and to estimate the burden of disease. They are an important step in assessing the qua...

Authors: Bernardo L Queiroz, Marcos R. Gonzaga, Ana M. N. Vasconcelos, Bruno T. Lopes and Daisy M. X. Abreu

The burden of tuberculosis and attributable risk factors in Brazil, 1990–2017: results from the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017

Tuberculosis (TB) continues to be an important cause of fatal and non-fatal burden in Brazil. In this study, we present estimates for TB burden in Brazil from 1990 to 2017 using data from the Global Burden of ...

Authors: Francisco Rogerlândio Martins-Melo, Juliana Maria Trindade Bezerra, David Soeiro Barbosa, Mariângela Carneiro, Kleydson Bonfim Andrade, Antonio Luiz Pinho Ribeiro, Mohsen Naghavi and Guilherme Loureiro Werneck

The burden of diabetes and hyperglycemia in Brazil: a global burden of disease study 2017

The Global Burden of Diseases (GBD) 2017 database permits an up-to-date evaluation of the frequency and burden of diabetes at the state level in Brazil and by type of diabetes. The objective of this report is ...

Authors: Bruce Bartholow Duncan, Ewerton Cousin, Mohsen Naghavi, Ashkan Afshin, Elisabeth Barboza França, Valéria Maria de Azeredo Passos, Deborah Malta, Bruno R. Nascimento and Maria Inês Schmidt

Depressive disorders in Brazil: results from the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017

Depression is one of the major causes of disability worldwide. The objective of this study was to analyze the results of the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017 (GBD-2017) for depressive disorders in Brazil an...

Authors: Cecília Silva Costa Bonadiman, Deborah Carvalho Malta, Valéria Maria de Azeredo Passos, Mohsen Naghavi and Ana Paula Souto Melo

Changes in malaria patterns in Brazil over 28 years (1990–2017): results from the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017

This study presents the malaria burden in Brazil from 1990 to 2017 using data from the Global Burden of Diseases, Injuries, and Risk Factors Study 2017 (GBD 2017), by analyzing disease burden indicators in fed...

Authors: Juliana Maria Trindade Bezerra, David Soeiro Barbosa, Francisco Rogerlândio Martins-Melo, Guilherme Loureiro Werneck, Érika Martins Braga, Pedro Luiz Tauil and Mariângela Carneiro