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Alan Chen

Researcher at Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation

Publications -  8
Citations -  10736

Alan Chen is an academic researcher from Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation. The author has contributed to research in topics: Years of potential life lost & Life expectancy. The author has an hindex of 5, co-authored 6 publications receiving 8303 citations. Previous affiliations of Alan Chen include University of Washington.

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Global, regional, and national incidence, prevalence, and years lived with disability for 310 diseases and injuries, 1990–2015: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2015

Theo Vos, +699 more
- 08 Oct 2016 - 
TL;DR: The Global Burden of Diseases, Injuries, and Risk Factors Study 2015 (GBD 2015) as discussed by the authors was used to estimate the incidence, prevalence, and years lived with disability for diseases and injuries at the global, regional, and national scale over the period of 1990 to 2015.
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Global, regional, and national life expectancy, all-cause mortality, and cause-specific mortality for 249 causes of death, 1980–2015: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2015

Haidong Wang, +844 more
- 08 Oct 2016 - 
TL;DR: The Global Burden of Disease 2015 Study provides a comprehensive assessment of all-cause and cause-specific mortality for 249 causes in 195 countries and territories from 1980 to 2015, finding several countries in sub-Saharan Africa had very large gains in life expectancy, rebounding from an era of exceedingly high loss of life due to HIV/AIDS.
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Measuring the health-related Sustainable Development Goals in 188 countries: a baseline analysis from the Global Burden of Disease Study 2015

Stephen S Lim, +698 more
- 08 Oct 2016 - 
TL;DR: The analysis of 33 health-related SDG indicators based on the Global Burden of Diseases, Injuries, and Risk Factors Study 2015 highlights the importance of income, education, and fertility as drivers of health improvement but also emphasises that investments in these areas alone will not be sufficient.
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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: a novel analysis from the Global Burden of Disease Study 2015

Ryan M Barber, +760 more
- 15 Jul 2017 - 
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors use the Global Burden of Diseases, Injuries, and Risk Factors Study (GBD) to improve and expand the quantification of personal health-care access and quality for 195 countries and territories from 1990 to 2015.
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Seat-Belt Use In US Counties: Limited Progress Toward Healthy People 2020 Objectives

TL;DR: This work measured the prevalence of reported seat-belt compliance in every US county from 2002 to 2012 and found considerable variation.