Research Articles

To understand current rates, recent trends, and potential trajectories of child mortality for the next decade, we present the Global Burden of Diseases, Injuries, and Risk Factors Study (GBD) 2019 findings for all-cause mortality and cause-specific mortality in children younger than 5 years of age, with multiple scenarios for child mortality in 2030 that include the consideration of potential effects of COVID-19, and a novel framework for quantifying optimal child survival.

We estimate primary healthcare (PHC) expenditure for each low-income and middle-income country between 2000 and 2017 and test which health outputs and outcomes were associated with PHC expenditure.

This research aims to provide policymakers and researchers with a single repository of available national health expenditures by healthcare functions (ie, services) and providers of such services.

We present a comprehensive analysis of the disease burden and trends of neurological disorders at the state level in India.

Does personal health care access and quality vary across ages among high-income countries and US states, and does any observed variation associate with insurance coverage?

We aimed to estimate the total reductions in under-5 mortality that are associated with increased maternal and paternal education, during distinct age intervals.

This study utilizes the most recent data available to provide an updated comparison of available data sources on government spending on immunization.  

Here we present a geospatial analysis of EBF prevalence estimates from 2000 to 2018 across 94 LMICs mapped to policy-relevant administrative units (for example, districts), quantify subnational inequalities and their changes over time, and estimate probabilities of meeting the World Health Organization’s Global Nutrition Target (WHO GNT) of ≥70% EBF prevalence by 2030.

The study models two indicators: prevalence of current smoking tobacco use among young adults aged 15-24 years, and the age at which current smokers aged 20-54 years in 2019 began smoking regularly.

We estimated the prevalence of smoking tobacco use and attributable disease burden for 204 countries and territories, by age and sex, from 1990 to 2019.

In this study we examined delays during the search for care process and associations with mother, child, or health services characteristics, and with symptoms report prior to death. The cross-sectional study comprises household interviews with 252 caregivers of children under-5 who died in the state of Yucatán, Mexico, during 2015-2016. Results indicate that children faced important delays in accessing care, particularly regarding the identification of symptoms and the initiation of the search for care process. These findings suggest that providing resources to enable caregivers to access health services in a timely manner may reduce delays in seeking care.