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Christopher J L Murray

Researcher at Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation

Publications -  833
Citations -  393064

Christopher J L Murray is an academic researcher from Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation. The author has contributed to research in topics: Population & Mortality rate. The author has an hindex of 209, co-authored 754 publications receiving 310329 citations. Previous affiliations of Christopher J L Murray include Harvard University & University of Washington.

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Global, regional, national, and subnational big data to inform health equity research: perspectives from the global burden of disease study 2017

TL;DR: The GBD provides the means to quantify health loss and can be used to examine root causes of disparities and develop programs to improve health and health equity, as well as provide a comprehensive picture of what risks and causes result in disability and death.
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Spatial, temporal, and demographic patterns in prevalence of chewing tobacco use in 204 countries and territories, 1990-2019: a systematic analysis from the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019

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TL;DR: Chewing tobacco remains a substantial public health problem in several regions of the world, and predominantly in south Asia, and that control efforts have had much larger effects on the prevalence of smoking tobacco use than on chewing tobacco use in some countries.

An individual-level approach to health inequality: child survival in 50 countries

TL;DR: Inequality estimates should be routinely reported alongside average levels of health, as they reveal important information about the distribution of health in populations, and measuring inequality with individual level data enables meaningful comparisons of inequality across countries and analyses of the determinants of inequality.