Edited by Antonio Luiz Pinho Ribeiro, Deborah Carvalho Malta, Valéria Maria de Azeredo Passos and Maria de Fátima Marinho de Souza
Citation: Population Health Metrics 2020 18(Suppl 1):23
Volume 18 Supplement 1
Publication of this supplement is sponsored by the Brazilian Health Ministry. The articles have undergone the journal's standard peer review process for supplements. The Supplement Editors declare that they have no competing interests.
Edited by Antonio Luiz Pinho Ribeiro, Deborah Carvalho Malta, Valéria Maria de Azeredo Passos and Maria de Fátima Marinho de Souza
Citation: Population Health Metrics 2020 18(Suppl 1):23
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...
Citation: Population Health Metrics 2020 18(Suppl 1):6
Breast cancer is the most frequently diagnosed cancer in women and the leading cause of cancer death among females worldwide. In recent decades, breast cancer death rates have been stable or decreasing in more...
Citation: Population Health Metrics 2020 18(Suppl 1):8
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 ...
Citation: Population Health Metrics 2020 18(Suppl 1):9
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 ...
Citation: Population Health Metrics 2020 18(Suppl 1):10
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...
Citation: Population Health Metrics 2020 18(Suppl 1):14
Measuring the Global Burden of Disease (GBD) has been the key to verifying the evolution of health indicators worldwide. We analyse subnational GBD data for Brazil in order to monitor the performance of the Br...
Citation: Population Health Metrics 2020 18(Suppl 1):7
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...
Citation: Population Health Metrics 2020 18(Suppl 1):11
The prevalence and burden of musculoskeletal (MSK) conditions are growing around the world, and low back pain (LBP) is the most significant of the five defined MSK disorders in the Global Burden of Disease (GB...
Citation: Population Health Metrics 2020 18(Suppl 1):12
In this study, infant mortality rate (IMR) inequalities are analyzed from 1990 to 2015 in different geographic scales.
Citation: Population Health Metrics 2020 18(Suppl 1):4
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...
Citation: Population Health Metrics 2020 18(Suppl 1):5
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...
Citation: Population Health Metrics 2020 18(Suppl 1):16
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...
Citation: Population Health Metrics 2020 18(Suppl 1):17
The aim of this study was to estimate the mortality from all causes as a result of physical inactivity in Brazil and in Brazilian states over 28 years (1990–2017).
Citation: Population Health Metrics 2020 18(Suppl 1):13
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.
Citation: Population Health Metrics 2020 18(Suppl 1):24
Registered causes in vital statistics classified as garbage codes (GC) are considered indicators of quality of cause-of-death data. Our aim was to describe temporal changes in this quality in Brazil, and the l...
Citation: Population Health Metrics 2020 18(Suppl 1):20
The prevalence and burden of disease resulting from obesity have increased worldwide. In Brazil, more than half of the population is now overweight. However, the impact of this growing risk factor on disease b...
Citation: Population Health Metrics 2020 18(Suppl 1):18
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...
Citation: Population Health Metrics 2020 18(Suppl 1):19
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