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Demography: Measuring and Modeling Population Processes

Jacques Veron, +3 more
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The article was published on 2000-10-03 and is currently open access. It has received 1507 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Population.

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Global, regional, and national age-sex specific all-cause and cause-specific mortality for 240 causes of death, 1990-2013: A systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2013

Mohsen Naghavi, +731 more
- 10 Jan 2015 - 
TL;DR: In the Global Burden of Disease Study 2013 (GBD 2013) as discussed by the authors, the authors used the GBD 2010 methods with some refinements to improve accuracy applied to an updated database of vital registration, survey, and census data.
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Global, regional, and national causes of child mortality: An updated systematic analysis for 2010 with time trends since 2000

Li Liu, +11 more
- 09 Jun 2012 - 
TL;DR: The latest estimates of causes of child mortality in 2010 with time trends since 2000 show that only tetanus, measles, AIDS, and malaria (in Africa) decreased at an annual rate sufficient to attain the Millennium Development Goal 4.
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The Association Between Income and Life Expectancy in the United States, 2001-2014

Raj Chetty, +7 more
- 26 Apr 2016 - 
TL;DR: In the United States between 2001 and 2014, higher income was associated with greater longevity, and differences in life expectancy across income groups increased over time, however, the association between life expectancy and income varied substantially across areas; differences in longevity acrossincome groups decreased in some areas and increased in others.
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Causes of cancer in the world: comparative risk assessment of nine behavioural and environmental risk factors.

Goodarz Danaei, +4 more
- 19 Nov 2005 - 
TL;DR: This report estimates mortality from 12 types of cancer attributable to nine risk factors in seven World Bank regions for 2001 and suggests reduction of exposure to key behavioural and environmental risk factors would prevent a substantial proportion of deaths from cancer.
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Cause-specific mortality for 240 causes in China during 1990-2013: a systematic subnational analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2013.

Maigeng Zhou, +39 more
- 16 Jan 2016 - 
TL;DR: The most common non-communicable diseases, including ischaemic heart disease, stroke, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, and cancers (liver, stomach, and lung), contributed much more to YLLs in 2013 compared with 1990, and road injuries have become a top ten cause of death in all provinces in mainland China.