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Global Burden of Disease (GBD)

GBD is the single largest and most detailed scientific effort ever conducted to quantify levels and trends in health. It provides a comprehensive picture of mortality and disability across countries, time, age, and sex, incorporating over 350 diseases and injuries in 204 countries.

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Global burden of peripheral artery disease and its risk factors, 1990–2019

Gregory Roth, Catherine Johnson, Benjamin Stark, Christian Razo, Jason Anderson, Katrin Burkart, Kaleb Coberly, Xiaochen Dai, Mohammed Hassen, Stephen Lim, Tomislav Mestrovic, Ali Mokdad, Christopher J.L. Murray, Mohsen Naghavi, Hasan Nassereldine, Quinn Rafferty, Dereje Yohannis Yada, Simon Hay
September 19, 2023
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The global, regional, and national burden of adult lip, oral, and pharyngeal cancer in 204 countries and territories

Kelly Compton, Rixing Xu, Lisa Force, Alistair Acheson, Dan Lu, Lindsey Wallace, Jonathan Kocarnik, Weijia Fu, Frances Dean, Alyssa Pennini, Hannah Henrikson, Tahiya Alam, Aleksandr Aravkin, Eunice Chung, Xiaochen Dai, Lalit Dandona, Rakhi Dandona, Mohammed Hassen, Simon Hay, Stephen Lim, Tomislav Mestrovic, Ali Mokdad, Christopher J.L. Murray, Hasan Nassereldine
September 7, 2023

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US Health Map

Explore health trends in the United States by race and ethnicity for all-cause mortality and life expectancy.

Last updated
August 4, 2023
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Financing Global Health

Explore patterns of global health financing flows from 1990 to 2050.

Last updated
January 24, 2023
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MICROBE

The MICROBE (Measuring Infectious Causes and Resistance Outcomes for Burden Estimation) tool visualizes the fatal and nonfatal health outcomes of infections, pathogens, and antimicrobial resistance across different countries and regions.

Last updated
November 21, 2022
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Burden of Proof

Compare strength of evidence for health risks and outcomes.

Last updated
October 10, 2022