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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 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, +613 more
- 08 Oct 2016 - 
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.
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Estimation of potential global pandemic influenza mortality on the basis of vital registry data from the 1918–20 pandemic: a quantitative analysis

Christopher J L Murray, +4 more
- 23 Dec 2006 - 
TL;DR: This analysis of the empirical record of the 1918-20 pandemic provides a plausible upper bound on pandemic mortality, indicating that most deaths will occur in poor countries--ie, in societies whose scarce health resources are already stretched by existing health priorities.
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Summary Measures of Population Health: Concepts, Ethics, Measurement and Applications

Christopher J L Murray, +3 more

Measuring the Global Burden of Disease and Risk Factors, 1990–2001

Alan D. Lopez, +4 more
TL;DR: This chapter begins with a brief history of the work on burden of disease, including a discussion of the nature and origins of the disability-adjusted life year (DALY) as a measure of disease burden, and summarizes the methods and findings of the 2001 GBD study.
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Estimates of global and regional potential health gains from reducing multiple major risk factors.

Majid Ezzati, +5 more
- 26 Jul 2003 - 
TL;DR: Removal of major risk factors would not only increase healthy life expectancy in every region, but also reduce some of the differences between regions.