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New Modeling System May Help Predict Heart-related Disease

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G20 leaders: Universal health coverage should top your agenda

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11 million years of healthy life lost due to childhood cancer

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Tackling inequality could save millions of children

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Child Mortality 2000-2017

Explore our first-ever scrolling story that highlights key findings from our new study on under-5 mortality.

Local Burden of Disease: Under-5 mortality

With this interactive mapping tool, explore localized child and infant mortality trends within 46 countries in Africa from 2000 to 2015. View trends at different spatial resolutions, from entire nations to local, 5-by-5-kilometer areas.

Boost child survival by looking locally

A new study looks at how a child’s chance of dying before age 5 depends on where they live.

UW names Population Health building

The University of Washington has named a new building on its Seattle campus the Hans Rosling Center for Population Health.

Research Article

October 16, 2019

Mapping 123 million neonatal, infant, and child deaths between 2000 and 2017

Since 2000, many countries have achieved considerable success in improving child survival, but localized progress remains unclear. This study enables the identification of high-mortality clusters, patterns of progress and geographical inequalities to inform appropriate investments and implementations that will help to improve the health of all populations.

Research Article

September 30, 2019

Identifying residual hotspots and mapping lower respiratory infection morbidity and mortality in African children from 2000 to 2017

Lower respiratory infections (LRIs) are the leading cause of death in children under the age of 5, despite the existence of vaccines against many of their aetiologies.

Research Article

September 27, 2019

Global, regional, and national cancer incidence, mortality, years of life lost, years lived with disability, and disability-adjusted life years for 29 cancer groups, 1990 to 2017

We used the GBD study estimation methods to describe cancer incidence, mortality, years lived with disability, years of life lost, and disability-adjusted life years (DALYs). Results are presented at the national level as well as by Socio-demographic Index (SDI), a composite indicator of income, educational attainment, and total fertility rate.We also analyzed the influence of the epidemiological vs the demographic transition on cancer incidence.

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October 24, 2019

The Global Burden of Disease (GBD) Study: Drivers of Premature Mortality in the United States

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