Projections of Global Mortality and Burden of Disease from 2002 to 2030
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...The Global Burden of Disease Study projected that COPD, which ranked sixth as a cause of death in 1990, will become the third leading cause of death worldwide by 2020; a newer projection estimated COPD will be the fourth leading cause of death in 2030 (11)....
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...According to the projections, COPD will be the seventh leading cause of DALYs lost worldwide in 2030 (11)....
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...B OTH DEPRESSION AND OBESITY are widely spread problems with major public health implications.(1,2) Because of the high prevalence of both depression and obesity, and the fact that they both carry an increased risk for cardiovascular disease,(3,4) a potential association betweendepressionandobesityhasbeenpresumedandrepeatedlybeenexamined....
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...[34] estimated that the global diabetes prevalence would rise from 171 million in 2000 to 366 million in 2030, assuming that age–sex-specific diabetes prevalence rates remain unchanged within urban and rural populations in each region, but taking into account projected increases in urbanization to 2030....
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...Following Murray and Lopez, we use the average number of years of schooling of the population above the age of 25 to reflect average education levels, and. refer to this variable as “human capital”....
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...Following Murray and Lopez, we used calendar year as a proxy measure of the impact of technological change on health status....
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...These assessments use a health gap measure, the DALY, developed by Murray and Lopez [30] to quantify the equivalent years of full health lost due to diseases and injury in WHO member states....
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...These assessments use a health gap measure, the Disability Adjusted Life Year (DALY), developed by Murray and Lopez [33] to quantify the equivalent years of full health lost due to diseases and injury in WHO Member States....
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...Murray and Lopez used a variety of econometric approaches to estimate the equations of this form, including methods which take into account auto-correlation and heteroscedasticity....
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...For earlier years, income series for WHO Member States were estimated using information from the Penn World Tables [14,15] and, for some missing years, using growth rates of real GDP per capita in local currency units....
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...The increasing global burden of tuberculosis during the 1990s has been linked to the the HIV/AIDS epidemic, and there is some evidence that the increased burden of HIV-associated TB cases also increases TB transmission rates at the community level [30]....
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