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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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Cost‐effectiveness of chemotherapy for sputum smear‐positive pulmonary tuberculosis in Malawi, Mozambique and Tanzania

TL;DR: The cost-effectiveness of chemotherapy for pulmonary sputum smear-positive tuberculosis was examined in the national tuberculosis control programmes of Malawi, Mozambique and Tanzania and found that in all conditions, short-course chemotherapy is preferable to standard 12-month chemotherapy.

Global, regional, national, and selected subnational levels of stillbirths, neonatal, infant, and under-5 mortality, 1980–2015: A systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2015

Haidong Wang, +550 more
TL;DR: The Global Burden of Disease 2015 Study (GBD 2015) provides an analytical framework to comprehensively assess these trends for under-5 mortality, age-specific and cause-specific mortality among children under 5 years, and stillbirths by geography over time as discussed by the authors.

Summary measures of population health: conclusions and recommendations.

TL;DR: In this concluding chapter, the important conceptual empirical and ethical issues identified and debated by contributors are summarized and some conclusions and recommendations for the future evolution of summary measures of population health are drawn.
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Evaluación del impacto de la Reforma Mexicana de salud 2001-2006: un informe inicial

TL;DR: Key findings include: affiliation is preferentially reaching the poor and the marginalised communities; federal non-social security expenditure in real per-head terms increased by 38% from 2000 to 2005; equity of public-health expenditure across states improved.