Abraham D. Flaxman

TL;DR: The Global Burden of Disease 2013 study provides a consistent and comprehensive approach to disease estimation for between 1990 and 2013, and an opportunity to assess whether accelerated progress has occured since the Millennium Declaration.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors used Gaussian process regression to generate estimates of the probability of death between birth and age 5 years for children younger than 5 years in 187 countries from 1970 to 2010, by using data from all available sources including vital registration systems, summary birth histories in censuses and surveys, and complete birth histories.

TL;DR: Modeled estimates of US spending on personal health care and public health showed substantial increases from 1996 through 2013; with spending on diabetes, ischemic heart disease, and low back and neck pain accounting for the highest amounts of spending by disease category.

TL;DR: Efficient strategies to reduce disease burden of opioid dependence and injecting drug use, such as delivery of opioid substitution treatment and needle and syringe programmes, are needed to reduce this burden at a population scale.