Christopher J L Murray

TL;DR: Despite rough agreement in global estimates of maternal mortality in 2013, results from the WHO and Global Burden of Disease (GBD) 2013 collaborations differed by 147 000 deaths for 1990, diverged by at least 20% in 120 countries in2013, and provided very diff erent narratives on progress toward Millennium Development Goal 5.

TL;DR: Nayu Ikeda and colleagues provide a careful analysis of the cause of death and risk factor data to investigate potential causes for Japan’s decline in mortality since World War 2 and argue that public health programmes to promote salt reduction and primary care management of high blood pressure with antihypertensives were instrumental in bringing down stroke mortality.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors used a Bayesian hierarchical cause of death ensemble model (CODEm) platform to assess the levels and trends of the global burden of tuberculosis, with an emphasis on investigating differences in sex by HIV status for 204 countries and territories.

TL;DR: Local-level data are crucial to address the root causes of poor health and early death among disadvantaged groups in the USA, eliminate health disparities, and increase longevity for all.

TL;DR: A systematic analysis of mortality and morbidity data for LRI and its specific etiologic factors, including pneumococcus, Haemophilus influenzae type b, Respiratory syncytial virus, and influenza virus, calls for public health strategies to reduce the level of risk factors in each age group.