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Pandemic Recovery Survey
Use this tool to understand the effects of the pandemic on health care and health seeking behavior, attitudes and practices around vaccinations, education, and household financial and food security.
Data Coverage Map
Use this interactive tool to explore local data coverage for educational attainment and under-5 mortality.
Trends in the burden of most common obesity-related cancers in 16 Southern Africa development community countries, 1990–2019
Obesity-related cancers in the 16 Southern African Development Community (SADC) countries is quite prominent.
Global, regional, and national burden of rheumatoid arthritis, 1990–2020, and projections to 2050
In 2020, an estimated 17.6 million people had rheumatoid arthritis worldwide.
Catastrophic health expenditure during the COVID-19 pandemic in five countries: a time-series analysis
We analysed changes in health care spending in 2020 in five countries with available household expenditure data: Belarus, Mexico, Peru, Russia, and Viet Nam.
Hearing loss prevalence, years lived with disability, and hearing aid use in the United States from 1990 to 2019
We utilized population-representative surveys from the United States to estimate hearing loss prevalence for the Global Burden of Disease study.
Global, regional, and national incidence of six major immune-mediated inflammatory diseases
The causes for immune-mediated inflammatory diseases (IMIDs) are diverse and the incidence trends of IMIDs from specific causes are rarely studied. The study aims to investigate the pattern and trend of IMIDs from 1990 to 2019.
The global fatty liver disease Sustainable Development Goal country score for 195 countries and territories
We developed a fatty liver disease Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) country score to provide insights into country-level preparedness to address fatty liver disease through a whole-of-society lens.
The global, regional, and national burden of adult lip, oral, and pharyngeal cancer in 204 countries and territories
Smoking was the primary risk factor associated with lip, oral, and pharyngeal cancer in 2019.
Hepatitis B and C in Europe
This study aims to provide an overview of the burdens of hepatitis B virus (HBV) and hepatitis C virus (HCV) in Europe and their changes from 2010 to 2019 using estimates from the Global Burden of Diseases, Injuries, and Risk Factors Study (GBD) 2019.
Burden of lower respiratory infections and associated risk factors across regions in Ethiopia
This analysis is to present the burden and trends of morbidity and mortality due to lower respiratory infections (LRIs), their contributing risk factors, and the disparity across administrative regions and cities from 1990 to 2019.
Disease burden attributed to drug use in the Nordic countries
Using results from the Global Burden of Disease (GBD) study, we extracted age-standardized estimates of deaths, DALYs, YLLs and YLDs per 100 000 population for Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, and Sweden during the years 1990 to 2019.
Global-, regional-, and national-level impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on tuberculosis diagnoses, 2020–2021
The COVID-19 pandemic was associated with a 1.55 million decrease in TB diagnoses in 2020 and a 1.28 million decrease in 2021 at a global level.
Global, regional, and national burden of osteoarthritis, 1990–2020 and projections to 2050
We estimated global cases, deaths, and disability due to osteoarthritis from 1990 to 2020, and made projections through 2050.
2022 Roux Prize Recipient: Mukteshwari "Mukti" Bosco
Mukteshwari “Mukti” Bosco, CEO and Founder of Healing Fields Foundation, is the recipient of the 2022 Roux Prize, the world’s largest award for evidence-based public health achievement. Mrs. Bosco is credited with developing one of the first micro health insurance programs in India, which inspired her creation of health awareness and prevention programs centered around women’s empowerment and health education in rural communities.
2021 Roux Prize Recipient: Zulfiqar Bhutta
Professor Zulfiqar Bhutta, of Aga Khan University (AKU) and The Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids), was awarded the 2021 Roux Prize, a US$100,000 award for turning evidence into health impact.
The burden of antimicrobial resistance in the Americas in 2019
We estimated death and disability associated with antimicrobial resistance in the WHO Region of the Americas in 2019.
The burden of stomach cancer mortality by county, race, and ethnicity in the USA, 2000-2019
We investigated the burden of stomach cancer in the United States.
US Health Map
Explore health trends in the United States by race and ethnicity for all-cause mortality and life expectancy.
Cause-specific mortality by county, race, and ethnicity in the USA, 2000–19
We estimated age-standardised mortality by racial–ethnic group, county, and cause of death and describe the intersection between racial–ethnic and place-based disparities in mortality in the USA, comparing patterns across health conditions.
The burden of bacterial antimicrobial resistance in Croatia in 2019
The total burden associated with AMR in Croatia was 2,546 deaths and 46,958 DALYs, while the attributable burden was 614 deaths and 11,321 DALYs.