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Healthcare Access and Quality Index based on mortality from causes amenable to personal health care in 195 countries and territories, 1990-2015
GBD 2015 Healthcare Access and Quality Collaborators. Electronic address: cjlm@uw.edu, GBD 2015 Healthcare Access and Quality Collaborators
Dec 12, 2017
BACKGROUND: National levels of personal health-care access and quality can be approximated by measuring mortality rates from causes that should not be fatal in the presence of effective medical care (ie, amenable mortality)....
Global, regional, and national incidence, prevalence, and years lived with disability for 310 diseases and injuries, 1990-2015
BACKGROUND: Non-fatal outcomes of disease and injury increasingly detract from the ability of the world's population to live in full health, a trend largely attributable to an epidemiological transition in many countries from...
Global, regional, and national life expectancy, all-cause mortality, and cause-specific mortality for 249 causes of death, 1980-2015
GBD 2015 Mortality and Causes of Death Collaborators
Nov 21, 2017
BACKGROUND: Improving survival and extending the longevity of life for all populations requires timely, robust evidence on local mortality levels and trends. The Global Burden of Disease 2015 Study (GBD 2015) provides a...
Global, regional, national, and selected subnational levels of stillbirths, neonatal, infant, and under-5 mortality, 1980-2015
GBD 2015 Child Mortality Collaborators
Nov 30, 2017
BACKGROUND: Established in 2000, Millennium Development Goal 4 (MDG4) catalysed extraordinary political, financial, and social commitments to reduce under-5 mortality by two-thirds between 1990 and 2015. At the country level...
Global, regional, and national levels of maternal mortality, 1990-2015
GBD 2015 Maternal Mortality Collaborators
Nov 30, 2017
BACKGROUND: In transitioning from the Millennium Development Goal to the Sustainable Development Goal era, it is imperative to comprehensively assess progress toward reducing maternal mortality to identify areas of success...
Measuring the health-related Sustainable Development Goals in 188 countries
GBD 2015 SDG Collaborators
Nov 21, 2017
BACKGROUND: In September, 2015, the UN General Assembly established the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The SDGs specify 17 universal goals, 169 targets, and 230 indicators leading up to 2030. We provide an analysis of 33...
Global, regional, and national burden of neurological disorders during 1990-2015
GBD 2015 Neurological Disorders Collaborator Group
Jan 31, 2019
BACKGROUND: Comparable data on the global and country-specific burden of neurological disorders and their trends are crucial for health-care planning and resource allocation. The Global Burden of Diseases, Injuries, and Risk...
Global, regional, and national incidence, prevalence, and years lived with disability for 354 diseases and injuries for 195 countries and territories, 1990-2017
BACKGROUND: The Global Burden of Diseases, Injuries, and Risk Factors Study 2017 (GBD 2017) includes a comprehensive assessment of incidence, prevalence, and years lived with disability (YLDs) for 354 causes in 195 countries and...
Adolescent Adult Age Distribution Aged Aged 80 and over Child Child Preschool Disabled Persons Female Global Burden of Disease Global Health Humans Incidence Infant Infant Newborn Life Expectancy Male Middle Aged Morbidity prevalence Sex Distribution Socioeconomic Factors Wounds and Injuries Young Adult
Measuring progress from 1990 to 2017 and projecting attainment to 2030 of the health-related Sustainable Development Goals for 195 countries and territories
GBD 2017 SDG Collaborators
Sep 18, 2019
BACKGROUND: Efforts to establish the 2015 baseline and monitor early implementation of the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) highlight both great potential for and threats to improving health by 2030. To fully deliver on...
Population and fertility by age and sex for 195 countries and territories, 1950-2017
GBD 2017 Population and Fertility Collaborators
Sep 18, 2019
BACKGROUND: Population estimates underpin demographic and epidemiological research and are used to track progress on numerous international indicators of health and development. To date, internationally available estimates of...
Global, regional, and national comparative risk assessment of 84 behavioural, environmental and occupational, and metabolic risks or clusters of risks for 195 countries and territories, 1990-2017
GBD 2017 Risk Factor Collaborators
Sep 18, 2019
BACKGROUND: The Global Burden of Diseases, Injuries, and Risk Factors Study (GBD) 2017 comparative risk assessment (CRA) is a comprehensive approach to risk factor quantification that offers a useful tool for synthesising...
Adolescent Adult Age Distribution Aged Aged 80 and over Child Child Preschool Disabled Persons Environmental Exposure Female Global Burden of Disease Global Health Health Risk Behaviors Humans Infant Infant Newborn Life Expectancy Male Metabolic Diseases Middle Aged Occupational Diseases occupational exposure Quality-Adjusted Life Years Risk Assessment Sex Distribution Socioeconomic Factors Young Adult
Global, regional, and national burden of Alzheimer's disease and other dementias, 1990-2016
GBD 2016 Dementia Collaborators
Feb 08, 2019
BACKGROUND: The number of individuals living with dementia is increasing, negatively affecting families, communities, and health-care systems around the world. A successful response to these challenges requires an accurate...
The global burden of typhoid and paratyphoid fevers
GBD 2017 Typhoid and Paratyphoid Collaborators
Apr 18, 2019
BACKGROUND: Efforts to quantify the global burden of enteric fever are valuable for understanding the health lost and the large-scale spatial distribution of the disease. We present the estimates of typhoid and paratyphoid fever...
Adolescent Adult Aged Aged 80 and over Cause of Death Child Child Preschool Disabled Persons Female Global Burden of Disease Humans Incidence Infant Life Expectancy Male Mass Vaccination Middle Aged Paratyphoid Fever Quality-Adjusted Life Years Risk Factors Salmonella enterica Sanitation Typhoid Fever Typhoid-Paratyphoid Vaccines Young Adult
Global, regional, and national burden of neurological disorders, 1990-2016
GBD 2016 Neurology Collaborators
Sep 18, 2019
BACKGROUND: Neurological disorders are increasingly recognised as major causes of death and disability worldwide. The aim of this analysis from the Global Burden of Diseases, Injuries, and Risk Factors Study (GBD) 2016 is to...
Global, regional, and national age-sex-specific mortality for 282 causes of death in 195 countries and territories, 1980-2017
GBD 2017 Causes of Death Collaborators
Feb 01, 2019
BACKGROUND: Global development goals increasingly rely on country-specific estimates for benchmarking a nation's progress. To meet this need, the Global Burden of Diseases, Injuries, and Risk Factors Study (GBD) 2016 estimated...
Global, regional, and national disability-adjusted life-years (DALYs) for 359 diseases and injuries and healthy life expectancy (HALE) for 195 countries and territories, 1990-2017
GBD 2017 DALYs and HALE Collaborators
Feb 08, 2019
BACKGROUND: How long one lives, how many years of life are spent in good and poor health, and how the population's state of health and leading causes of disability change over time all have implications for policy, planning, and...
Monitoring IaaS Cloud for Healthcare Systems
Healthcare functionality is enriched by cloud services which offers a perspective for broad integration and interoperability. Cloud-based facilities support healthcare systems to remain connected to remote access devices to...
Published by: IGI Global Scientific Publishing
Global, regional, and national under-5 mortality, adult mortality, age-specific mortality, and life expectancy, 1970-2016
GBD 2016 Mortality Collaborators
Oct 03, 2018
BACKGROUND: Detailed assessments of mortality patterns, particularly age-specific mortality, represent a crucial input that enables health systems to target interventions to specific populations. Understanding how all-cause...
Adolescent Adult Age Distribution Aged Aged 80 and over Birth Rate Cause of Death Child Child Preschool Educational Status Female Global Burden of Disease Global Health HIV Infections Humans Infant Infant Newborn Life Expectancy Male Middle Aged Socioeconomic Factors Stillbirth Survival Rate Young Adult
Call to Action
Angela McCaskill
Jul 01, 2021
Low quality healthcare services can hinder economic and social development, result in premature death and disability, and waste human capital. To compound pre-pandemic healthcare access and equity issues, the quality of care...
Published by: IGI Global Scientific Publishing
The Quality of Care Delivery in the US Healthcare System
Andrew R Murphy
Jan 01, 0001
A study conducted by the International Common Wealth Fund in 2014 ranked the United States (U.S.) healthcare system last overall compared to ten other developed countries. Shockingly, the U.S. ranked behind these countries on...
Healthcare Quality Software technology Entrepreneurial and Small Business Operations Health and Medical Administration health information technology Health Services Administration Management Information Systems Management Sciences and Quantitative Methods Medicine and Health Sciences nursing
Published by: Ursinus College
Healthcare for men and women with learning disabilities
Healthcare for men and women with learning disabilities (known internationally as intellectual disabilities) has risen up the political agenda in the United Kingdom, propelled by a report from the charity Mencap. This report has...
Demand and supply-side barriers and opportunities to enhance access to healthcare for urban poor populations in Kenya
Pauline Bakibinga, Lyagamula Kisia, Martin Atela, Peter M Kibe, Caroline Kabaria, Isaac Kisiangani, Catherine Kyobutungi
May 11, 2022
OBJECTIVE: To explore the barriers to and options for improving access to quality healthcare for the urban poor in Nairobi, Kenya. DESIGN AND PARTICIPANTS: This was a qualitative approach. In-depth interviews (n=12), focus group...
Using clinical simulation to study how to improve quality and safety in healthcare.
Simulation can offer researchers access to events that can otherwise not be directly observed, and in a safe and controlled environment. How to use simulation for the study of how to improve the quality and safety of healthcare...
Published by: BMJ simulation & technology enhanced learning
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