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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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Understanding the decline of mean systolic blood pressure in Japan: an analysis of pooled data from the National Nutrition Survey, 1986-2002
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined the relationship between the observed drop in mean systolic blood pressure (SBP) in Japan in 1986-2002 and the use of antihypertensive treatment and lifestyle factors, including body mass index, physical activity, alcohol consumption, cigarette smoking and dietary salt intake.
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Burden of disease assessment and health system reform: Results of a study in Mexico
TL;DR: This paper describes in broad terms the first national assessment of the burden of disease using Disability Adjusted Life Years, which formed part of an overall study of health system reform in Mexico.
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A shortened verbal autopsy instrument for use in routine mortality surveillance systems
Peter T. Serina,Ian Riley,A W Stewart,Abraham D. Flaxman,Rafael Lozano,Meghan D. Mooney,Richard Luning,Bernardo Hernández,Robert E. Black,R.C. Ahuja,Nurul Alam,Sayed Saidul Alam,Said M. Ali,Charles Atkinson,Abdullah H Baqui,Hafizur Rahman Chowdhury,Lalit Dandona,Lalit Dandona,Rakhi Dandona,Emily Dantzer,Gary L. Darmstadt,Vinita Das,Usha Dhingra,Arup Dutta,Wafaie W. Fawzi,Michael B Freeman,Saman Gamage,Sara Gómez,Dilip Hensman,Spencer L. James,Rohina Joshi,Henry D. Kalter,Aarti Kumar,Vishwajeet Kumar,Marilla G. Lucero,Saurabh Mehta,Bruce Neal,Bruce Neal,Summer Lockett Ohno,David M. Phillips,Kelsey Pierce,Rajendra Prasad,Devarsetty Praveen,Zul Premji,Dolores Ramírez-Villalobos,Rasika Rampatige,Hazel Remolador,Minerva Romero,Mwanaidi Said,Diozele Sanvictores,Sunil Sazawal,Peter Kim Streatfield,Veronica Tallo,Alireza Vadhatpour,Nandalal Wijesekara,Christopher J L Murray,Alan D. Lopez +56 more
TL;DR: A shortened version of the VAI developed for the Population Health Metrics Research Consortium (PHMRC) Gold Standard Verbal Autopsy Validation Study using a systematic approach reduces the burden of time and resources required for data collection and analysis of cause of death data in civil registration systems.
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Defining and Measuring Fairness in Financial Contribution to the Health System
TL;DR: The approach separates financing from utilisation, so that fairness in financial contribution is determined independently of the health status of the individual or household or the use of health services.
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Stroke Prevalence, Mortality and Disability-Adjusted Life Years in Children and Youth Aged 0-19 Years: Data from the Global and Regional Burden of Stroke 2013
Rita Krishnamurthi,Gabrielle deVeber,Valery L. Feigin,Suzanne Barker-Collo,Heather J. Fullerton,Mark T Mackay,Finbar O'Callahan,M. Patrice Lindsay,Anneli Kolk,Warren D. Lo,Priyanka Shah,Alexandra Linds,Kelly Jones,Priya Parmar,Steve Taylor,Bo Norrving,George A. Mensah,Andrew E. Moran,Mohsen Naghavi,Mohammad H. Forouzanfar,Grant Nguyen,Catherine O. Johnson,Theo Vos,Christopher J L Murray,Gregory A. Roth +24 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the prevalence, mortality and disability-adjusted life years (DALYs) for ischemic stroke (IS), hemorrhagic stroke (HS) and all stroke types combined globally from 1990 to 2013 were estimated using the Global Burden of Disease 2013 methods.