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Mortality due to low-quality health systems in the universal health coverage era: a systematic analysis of amenable deaths in 137 countries

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The excess mortality for conditions targeted in the Sustainable Development Goals that are amenable to health care and the portion of this excess mortality due to poor-quality care in 137 LMICs, in which excess mortality refers to deaths that could have been averted in settings with strong health systems are estimated.
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This article is published in The Lancet.The article was published on 2018-11-17 and is currently open access. It has received 450 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Health care & Public health.

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Immunity and Inflammation in Atherosclerosis.

TL;DR: The pathogenesis of atherosclerosis is discussed with a focus on adaptive immunity and some limitations of animal models and the need for models that are tailored to better translate to human Atherosclerosis and ultimately progress in prevention and treatment are discussed.
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Variations in common diseases, hospital admissions, and deaths in middle-aged adults in 21 countries from five continents (PURE): a prospective cohort study.

TL;DR: This analysis assesses the incidence of events in 162 534 participants who were enrolled in the first two phases of the PURE core study, finding a pattern of the highest mortality in LICs and the lowest in HICs was observed for all causes of death except cancer, where mortality was similar across country income levels.
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Global, regional, and national comparative risk assessment of 79 behavioural, environmental and occupational, and metabolic risks or clusters of risks in 188 countries, 1990-2013: A systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2013

Mohammad H. Forouzanfar, +736 more
- 05 Dec 2015 - 
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.
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Global, regional, and national incidence, prevalence, and years lived with disability for 310 diseases and injuries, 1990–2015: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2015

Theo Vos, +699 more
- 08 Oct 2016 - 
TL;DR: The Global Burden of Diseases, Injuries, and Risk Factors Study 2015 (GBD 2015) as discussed by the authors was used to estimate the incidence, prevalence, and years lived with disability for diseases and injuries at the global, regional, and national scale over the period of 1990 to 2015.
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Global, regional, and national age-sex specific mortality for 264 causes of death, 1980–2016: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2016

Mohsen Naghavi, +601 more
- 16 Sep 2017 - 
TL;DR: The Global Burden of Disease 2016 Study (GBD 2016) provides a comprehensive assessment of cause-specific mortality for 264 causes in 195 locations from 1980 to 2016 as discussed by the authors, which includes evaluation of the expected epidemiological transition with changes in development and where local patterns deviate from these trends.
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