Abraham D. Flaxman

TL;DR: GBD 2016 provides an updated and expanded evidence base on where the world currently stands in terms of the health-related SDGs, and substantially revised the universal health coverage (UHC) measure, which focuses on coverage of essential health services, to also represent personal health-care access and quality for several non-communicable diseases.

TL;DR: The estimates suggest that cannabis use as a risk factor for schizophrenia is not a major contributor to population-level disease burden and cannabis dependence is a disorder primarily experienced by young adults, especially in higher income countries.

TL;DR: The modelled epidemiological profile of MDD was presented dealing with heterogeneity in the data, enforcing internal consistency between epidemiological parameters and making estimates for world regions with no empirical data, which informed GBD 2010 and the public health field, with a clearer understanding of the global distribution ofMDD.

TL;DR: In an era when precision public health increasingly has the potential to transform the design, implementation, and impact of health programmes, high-resolution estimates of child mortality in Africa provide a baseline against which local, national, and global stakeholders can map the pathways for ending preventable child deaths by 2030.

TL;DR: The approach to county-level analyses with small area models used in this study has the potential to provide novel insights into US disease-specific mortality time trends and their differences across geographic regions.