Martin Tobias

TL;DR: The global, regional, and national prevalence of overweight and obesity in children and adults during 1980-2013 is estimated using a spatiotemporal Gaussian process regression model to estimate prevalence with 95% uncertainty intervals (UIs).

TL;DR: Modeled estimates of US spending on personal health care and public health showed substantial increases from 1996 through 2013; with spending on diabetes, ischemic heart disease, and low back and neck pain accounting for the highest amounts of spending by disease category.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors used data for exposure to risk factors by country, age group, and sex from pooled analyses of population-based health surveys and obtained relative risks for the eff ects of risk factors on cause-specifi c mortality from meta-analyses of large prospective studies.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors report associations between self-reported experience of racial discrimination and health in New Zealand, using data from the 2002/2003 New Zealand Health Survey, a cross-sectional survey involving face-to-face interviews with 12,500 people.

TL;DR: Assessment of prevalence of experiences of self-reported racial discrimination in Māori and Europeans and the effect of adjustment for experience of racial discrimination and deprivation on ethnic inequalities for various health outcomes concluded that interventions and policies to improve Mâori health and address these inequalities should take into account the health effects of racism.