Konstantinos Stroumpoulis

TL;DR: In this article, the authors quantify maternal mortality throughout the world by underlying cause and age from 1990 to 2015, and assess the progress toward reducing maternal mortality to identify areas of success, remaining challenges, and frame policy discussions.

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.

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.

TL;DR: The findings of increases in total deaths and accelerated population ageing call for specific focus from health policy makers to ensure the health-care system is equipped to meet the needs of the people in Greece.

TL;DR: Corrections have been made to the online version of this Article as of Jan 5, 2017.