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About: United Nations is a government organization based out in New York, New York, United States. It is known for research contribution in the topics: Population & Sustainable development. The organization has 3644 authors who have published 4311 publications receiving 167678 citations. The organization is also known as: United Nations Organization & UNO.
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Theo Vos1, Amanuel Alemu Abajobir, Kalkidan Hassen Abate2, Cristiana Abbafati3 +775 more•Institutions (305)
TL;DR: The Global Burden of Diseases, Injuries, and Risk Factors Study 2016 (GBD 2016) provides a comprehensive assessment of prevalence, incidence, and years lived with disability (YLDs) for 328 causes in 195 countries and territories from 1990 to 2016.
10,401 citations
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors estimated deaths and disability-adjusted life years (DALYs; sum of years lived with disability [YLD] and years of life lost [YLL]) attributable to the independent effects of 67 risk factors and clusters of risk factors for 21 regions in 1990 and 2010.
9,324 citations
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.
5,802 citations
Mohammad H. Forouzanfar1, Lily Alexander, H. Ross Anderson, Victoria F Bachman1 +733 more•Institutions (289)
TL;DR: The Global Burden of Disease, Injuries, and Risk Factor study 2013 (GBD 2013) as discussed by the authors provides a timely opportunity to update the comparative risk assessment with new data for exposure, relative risks, and evidence on the appropriate counterfactual risk distribution.
5,668 citations
Gregory A. Roth1, Gregory A. Roth2, Degu Abate3, Kalkidan Hassen Abate4 +1025 more•Institutions (333)
TL;DR: Non-communicable diseases comprised the greatest fraction of deaths, contributing to 73·4% (95% uncertainty interval [UI] 72·5–74·1) of total deaths in 2017, while communicable, maternal, neonatal, and nutritional causes accounted for 18·6% (17·9–19·6), and injuries 8·0% (7·7–8·2).
5,211 citations
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| Name | H-index | Papers | Citations |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jeffrey D. Sachs | 130 | 692 | 86589 |
| Mauro Giacca | 84 | 439 | 23811 |
| Peter Piot | 82 | 559 | 28489 |
| Laura A. Schieve | 69 | 191 | 18511 |
| Taikan Oki | 68 | 397 | 27401 |
| Samuel H. Preston | 66 | 254 | 17614 |
| Mickey Chopra | 66 | 166 | 14388 |
| Bernard Vanlauwe | 64 | 348 | 15005 |
| Jeffrey V. Rosenfeld | 63 | 370 | 15098 |
| Richard P. Mattick | 63 | 318 | 20620 |
| Walter Mendoza | 59 | 98 | 65753 |
| David C. Goodrich | 58 | 241 | 11471 |
| Toni C. Antonucci | 58 | 203 | 14324 |
| Louis V. Verchot | 55 | 183 | 14400 |
| Stefan Uhlenbrook | 54 | 232 | 9983 |