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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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A critical review of international mortality data.

TL;DR: At present, the Monitoring Report and World Population are the only appropriate sources for quantitative analysis of mortality or of change in mortality.
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Global Health Spending and Development Assistance for Health.

TL;DR: Although the health sector has been heralded as one in which foreign aid has had the greatest effect, it is increasingly suggested that low-income countries should contribute more toward their own health systems.
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Trend of Socio-Demographic Index and Mortality Estimates in Iran and its Neighbors, 1990-2015; Findings of the Global Burden of Diseases 2015 Study.

TL;DR: The leading YLL causes with high O/E ratios should be prioritized in public health efforts, and countries with low O/ E ratio should be scrutinized to find feasible innovative interventions.
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Response to P. Braveman et Al

TL;DR: The approach is attacked for taking health inequalities across individuals as the starting point for efforts to standardize and promote the comparable measurement of inequality in health across populations, and for maintaining that social research is introduced as part of the theoretical framework from which social variables are derived in order to explain the distribution of health.