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Shelly Balassyano

Researcher at Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation

Publications -  4
Citations -  6548

Shelly Balassyano is an academic researcher from Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation. The author has contributed to research in topics: Life expectancy & Mortality rate. The author has an hindex of 3, co-authored 4 publications receiving 1137 citations.

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Global burden of 369 diseases and injuries in 204 countries and territories, 1990–2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019

Theo Vos, +2419 more
- 17 Oct 2020 - 
TL;DR: Global health has steadily improved over the past 30 years as measured by age-standardised DALY rates, and there has been a marked shift towards a greater proportion of burden due to YLDs from non-communicable diseases and injuries.
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Global age-sex-specific fertility, mortality, healthy life expectancy (HALE), and population estimates in 204 countries and territories, 1950–2019: a comprehensive demographic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019

Haidong Wang, +727 more
- 17 Oct 2020 - 
TL;DR: The Global Burden of Diseases, Injuries, and Risk Factors Study (GBD) 2019 produced updated and comprehensive demographic assessments of the key indicators of fertility, mortality, migration, and population for 204 countries and territories and selected subnational locations from 1950 to 2019.
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Public health utility of cause of death data: applying empirical algorithms to improve data quality

Sarah Charlotte Johnson, +19 more
- 02 Jun 2021 - 
TL;DR: The Global Burden of Disease (GBD) study has developed methods to create comparable, timely, cause-specific mortality estimates; an impactful data processing method is the reallocation of garbage-coded deaths to a plausible underlying cause of death.
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Accounting for misclassified and unknown cause of death data in vital registration systems for estimating trends in HIV mortality.

Hmwe H Kyu, +16 more
- 01 Sep 2021 - 
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors describe the methods developed by the Global Burden of Disease Study to account for the misclassified cause of death data from vital registration systems for estimating HIV mortality in 132 countries and territories.