Background The Global Burden of Disease Study 2010 (GBD 2010), estimated that a
substantial proportion of the world's disease burden came from mental, neurological and …

Summary Background In the Global Burden of Disease Study 2013 (GBD 2013), knowledge
about health and its determinants has been integrated into a comparable framework to …

Background Chikungunya (CHIK) virus disease is expected to be a considerable cause of
disability and economic burden in Latin America given its chronic sequelae, particularly its …

The Millennium Development Goals have brought remarkable success for global collective
action. Unfortunately, the new Sustainable Development Goals are broad, with many …

Background Trachoma is widely considered a disease of poverty. Although there are many
epidemiological studies linking trachoma to factors normally associated with poverty, formal …

COPD is a chronic disease of the lungs, but heterogeneous with respect to clinical
manifestations and disease progression. This has consequences for health risk assessment …

Data from the Brazilian Ministry of Health show that the absolute number of deaths due to
coronary heart disease surpassed the number of some fatal cerebrovascular events in Brazil …

Background Sri Lanka has been affected by epidemics of dengue infections for many
decades and the incidence and severity of dengue infections have been rising each year …

Background Trachomatous trichiasis is thought to have a profound effect on quality of life
(QoL), however, there is little research in this area. We measured vision and health-related …

This report provides estimates of the economic cost due to productivity losses arising from
absenteeism, presenteeism and early retirement due to ill health. For Brazil these losses …