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Global, regional, and national disability-adjusted life years (DALYs) for 306 diseases and injuries and healthy life expectancy (HALE) for 188 countries, 1990-2013: quantifying the epidemiological transition

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Background: The Global Burden of Disease Study 2013 (GBD 2013) aims to bring together all available epidemiological data using a coherent measurement framework, standardised estimation methods, and transparent data sources to enable comparisons of health loss over time and across causes, age–sex groups, and countries. The GBD can be used to generate summary measures such as disability-adjusted life-years (DALYs) and healthy life expectancy (HALE) that make possible compara...

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Published
Peer review status:
Peer reviewed

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10.1016/s0140-6736(15)61340-x

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ORCID:
0000-0002-6106-4839


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Funder identifier:
https://ror.org/029chgv08
Grant:
092654/Z/10/A
099876
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Funder identifier:
https://ror.org/0187kwz08
Grant:
CDF-2013-06-012
ACF-2011-13-012
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Funder identifier:
https://ror.org/03x94j517
Grant:
MR/K006525/1
MR/L003120/1


Publisher:
Elsevier
Journal:
Lancet More from this journal
Volume:
386
Issue:
10009
Pages:
2145-2191
Publication date:
2015-08-28
Acceptance date:
2015-08-28
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EISSN:
1474-547X
ISSN:
0140-6736
Pmid:
26321261


Language:
English
Pubs id:
542054
Local pid:
pubs:542054
Deposit date:
2024-11-23

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