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Stephen S Lim

Researcher at Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation

Publications -  246
Citations -  156171

Stephen S Lim is an academic researcher from Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation. The author has contributed to research in topics: Population & Mortality rate. The author has an hindex of 99, co-authored 219 publications receiving 117059 citations. Previous affiliations of Stephen S Lim include Monash University & Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust.

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Trends and outcomes in primary health care expenditures in low-income and middle-income countries, 2000-2017.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors used three data sources to estimate PHC expenditures: recently published health expenditure estimates for each low-income and middle-income country, which were constructed using 1662 country-reported National Health Accounts; proprietary data from IQVIA to estimate expenditure of prescribed pharmaceuticals for PHC; and household surveys and costing estimates to estimate inpatient vaginal delivery expenditures.
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The overlapping burden of the three leading causes of disability and death in sub-Saharan African children

Robert C. Reiner, +316 more
TL;DR: In this article , the authors synthesize subnational estimates of the burden of lower respiratory infections, diarrhoeal diseases, and malaria in children under-5 from 2000 to 2017 for 43 sub-Saharan countries, and show that nearly 300 million DALYs could have been averted since 2000 by raising all units to their national average.