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Soumya Swaminathan

Researcher at Indian Council of Medical Research

Publications -  370
Citations -  78067

Soumya Swaminathan is an academic researcher from Indian Council of Medical Research. The author has contributed to research in topics: Tuberculosis & Population. The author has an hindex of 69, co-authored 353 publications receiving 61963 citations. Previous affiliations of Soumya Swaminathan include Yahoo! & Ministry of Health and Family Welfare.

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Child and Adolescent Health From 1990 to 2015. Findings From the Global Burden of Diseases, Injuries, and Risk Factors 2015 Study

Nicholas J Kassebaum, +259 more
- 01 Jun 2017 - 
TL;DR: Global trends were driven by reductions in mortality owing to infectious, nutritional, and neonatal disorders, which in the aggregate led to a relative increase in the importance of noncommunicable diseases and injuries in explaining global disease burden.
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The global burden of tuberculosis: results from the Global Burden of Disease Study 2015

Hmwe H Kyu, +130 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors analyzed trends in the fatal and non-fatal burden of tuberculosis over the past 25 years for 195 countries and territories, and assessed how observed tuberculosis incidence, prevalence and mortality differed from expected trends as predicted by the Socio-demographic Index (SDI), a composite indicator based on income per capita, average years of schooling and total fertility rate.
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The burden of cancers and their variations across the states of India: the Global Burden of Disease Study 1990–2016

TL;DR: The substantial heterogeneity in the state-level incidence rate and health loss trends of the different types of cancer in India over this 26-year period should be taken into account to strengthen infrastructure and human resources for cancer prevention and control at both the national and state levels.