Julia Moreira Pescarini

TL;DR: To control COVID-19 in Brazil, it is also crucial that epidemiological monitoring is strengthened at all three levels of the Brazilian National Health System (SUS), which includes evaluating and usingsupplementary indicators to monitor the progression of the pandemic and the effect of the control measures.

TL;DR: Five key insights that are important for health, social, and economic development strategies have been distilled are distilled and are subject to the many limitations outlined in each of the component GBD capstone papers.

TL;DR: This article presents a review of the propensity scores methods, extended applications, recent advances, and their strengths and limitations and explains why misunderstandings are all too common.

TL;DR: Although the prevalence of lymphatic filariasis infection has declined since 2000, MDA is still necessary across large populations in Africa and Asia, and these mapped estimates can be used to identify areas where the probability of meeting infection thresholds is low, and to indicate additional data collection or intervention might be warranted before MDA programmes cease.

TL;DR: Findings point to a consistent relationship between leprosy and unfavorable economic circumstances and underscore the pressing need of leproSy control policies to target socially vulnerable groups in high-burden countries.