Alex Reynolds

TL;DR: Great efforts and potentially different approaches are needed if the oral health goal of reducing the level of oral diseases and minimizing their impact is to be achieved by 2020, despite some challenges with current measurement methodologies for oral diseases.

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: The Global Burden of Disease 2015 Study provides an analytical framework to comprehensively assess trends for under-5 mortality, age-specific and cause-specific mortality among children under 5 years, and stillbirths by geography over time and decomposed the changes in under- 5 mortality to changes in SDI at the global level.

TL;DR: Increases in US health care spending from 1996 through 2013 were largely related to increases in health care service price and intensity but were also positively associated with population growth and aging and negatively associated with disease prevalence or incidence.

TL;DR: The authors' results provide evidence of two substantial shifts in DAH growth during the past 26 years and estimates of future DAH based on past trends and associations present a wide range of potential futures, although the mean estimate of $64·1 billion shows an increase between now and 2040, although with a large uncertainty interval.