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Haidong Wang

Researcher at Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation

Publications -  103
Citations -  54711

Haidong Wang is an academic researcher from Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation. The author has contributed to research in topics: Mortality rate & Population. The author has an hindex of 54, co-authored 94 publications receiving 42701 citations. Previous affiliations of Haidong Wang include Public Health Foundation of India & University of Washington.

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Global, regional, and national disability-adjusted life years (DALYs) for 306 diseases and injuries and healthy life expectancy (HALE) for 188 countries, 1990–2013: Quantifying the epidemiological transition

Christopher J L Murray, +611 more
TL;DR: The Global Burden of Disease Study 2013 (GBD 2013) aims to bring together all available epidemiological data using a coherent measurement framework, standardised estimation methods, and transparent data sources to enable comparisons of health loss over time and across causes, age-sex groups, and countries as discussed by the authors.
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A Subnational Analysis of Mortality and Prevalence of COPD in China From 1990 to 2013: Findings From the Global Burden of Disease Study 2013

Peng Yin, +10 more
- 01 Dec 2016 - 
TL;DR: The substantial increase in COPD cases represents an ongoing challenge given the rapidly aging Chinese population and a targeted control and prevention strategy should be developed at a provincial level to reduce the burden caused by COPD.
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Burden of musculoskeletal disorders in the Eastern Mediterranean Region, 1990–2013: findings from the Global Burden of Disease Study 2013

Maziar Moradi-Lakeh, +104 more
- 01 Aug 2017 - 
TL;DR: This study shows a high burden of musculoskeletal disorders, with a faster increase in EMR compared with the rest of the world, and calls for incorporating prevention and control programmes that should include improving health data, addressing risk factors, providing evidence-based care and community programmes to increase awareness.
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Prevalence and causes of vision loss in China from 1990 to 2019: findings from the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019

Tingling Xu, +17 more
- 01 Dec 2020 - 
TL;DR: Although a comprehensive national policy to prevent blindness is in place, public awareness of visual health needs improving, and reducing the prevalence of moderate and severe vision impairment should be prioritised in future work.

Global, regional, and national comparative risk assessment of 79 behavioural, environmental and occupational, and metabolic risks or clusters of risks in 188 countries, 1990–2013: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2013

Mohammad H. Forouzanfar, +720 more
TL;DR: The Global Burden of Disease, Injuries, and Risk Factor study 2013 (GBD 2013) as mentioned in this paper provides a timely opportunity to update the comparative risk assessment with new data for exposure, relative risks, and evidence on the appropriate counterfactual risk distribution.