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Nigel Crisp

Other affiliations: China Medical Board
Bio: Nigel Crisp is an academic researcher from United Nations Industrial Development Organization. The author has contributed to research in topics: Health care & Global health. The author has an hindex of 8, co-authored 15 publications receiving 5081 citations. Previous affiliations of Nigel Crisp include China Medical Board.

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01 May 2011
TL;DR: This paper aims to demonstrate the efforts towards in-situ applicability of EMMARM, which aims to provide real-time information about the physical and emotional impacts of infectious disease on a variety of patients over a period of years.
Abstract: Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA (Prof J Frenk MD); China Medical Board, Cambridge, MA, USA (L Chen MD); Aga Khan University, Karachi, Pakistan (Prof Z A Bhutta PhD); George Washington University Medical Center, Washington, DC, USA (Prof J Cohen MD); Independent member of House of Lords, London, UK (N Crisp KCB); James P Grant School of Public Health, Dhaka, Bangladesh (Prof T Evans MD); US Institute of Medicine, Washington, DC, USA (H Fineberg MD, P Kelley MD); School of Public Health Universidad Peruana Cayetano, Heredia, Lima, Peru (Prof P Garcia MD); Peking University Health Science Centre, Beijing, China (Prof Y Ke MD); National Health Laboratory Service, Johannesburg, South Africa (B Kistnasamy MD); School of Nursing, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA (Prof A Meleis PhD); University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada (Prof D Naylor MD); The Rockefeller Foundation, New York, NY, USA (A Pablos-Mendez MD); Public Health professionals for a new century: transforming education to strengthen health systems in an interdependent world

984 citations

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TL;DR: The supply in relation to the demand for physicians and nurses around the world is reviewed and the need for and supply of health professionals are in flux.
Abstract: The world's need for and supply of health professionals are in flux. This article reviews the supply in relation to the demand for physicians and nurses around the world.

293 citations

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TL;DR: Assessment of disease-oriented country programmes have found that the lack of health workers is one of the major bottlenecks in implementing evidence-based interventions to improve maternal and child health and to address HIV/AIDS malaria and tuberculosis.

136 citations


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TL;DR: In this article, a comprehensive update of disease burden worldwide incorporating a systematic reassessment of disease and injury-specific epidemiology has been done since the 1990 study, and the authors aimed to calculate disease burden globally and for 21 regions for 1990, 2005, and 2010 with methods to enable meaningful comparisons over time.

7,020 citations

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Christopher J L Murray1, Theo Vos2, Rafael Lozano1, Mohsen Naghavi1  +366 moreInstitutions (141)
TL;DR: The results for 1990 and 2010 supersede all previously published Global Burden of Disease results and highlight the importance of understanding local burden of disease and setting goals and targets for the post-2015 agenda taking such patterns into account.

6,861 citations

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TL;DR: The burden of CKD was much higher than expected for the level of development, whereas the disease burden in western, eastern, and central sub-Saharan Africa, east Asia, south Asia, central and eastern Europe, Australasia, and western Europe was lower than expected.

2,370 citations

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TL;DR: The need for surgical services in low- and middleincome countries will continue to rise substantially from now until 2030, with a large projected increase in the incidence of cancer, road traffic injuries, and cardiovascular and metabolic diseases in LMICs.

2,209 citations