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Howard J. Hoffman

Researcher at National Institutes of Health

Publications -  3
Citations -  2825

Howard J. Hoffman is an academic researcher from National Institutes of Health. The author has contributed to research in topics: Population & Years of potential life lost. The author has an hindex of 3, co-authored 3 publications receiving 2493 citations. Previous affiliations of Howard J. Hoffman include All India Institute of Medical Sciences.

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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
- 28 Nov 2015 - 
TL;DR: Patterns of the epidemiological transition with a composite indicator of sociodemographic status, which was constructed from income per person, average years of schooling after age 15 years, and the total fertility rate and mean age of the population, were quantified.
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Common values in assessing health outcomes from disease and injury: disability weights measurement study for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2010.

Joshua A. Salomon, +126 more
- 15 Dec 2012 - 
TL;DR: In this paper, a comprehensive re-estimation of disability weights for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2010 through a large-scale empirical investigation in which judgments about health losses associated with many causes of disease and injury were elicited from the general public in diverse communities through a new, standardised approach.

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.