Executive summary Pollution is the largest environmental cause of disease and premature
death in the world today. Diseases caused by pollution were responsible for an estimated 9 …

Background Data for the causes of maternal deaths are needed to inform policies to improve
maternal health. We developed and analysed global, regional, and subregional estimates of …

Executive summary In 2000, the United Nations (UN) Member States pledged to work
towards a series of Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), including the target of a three …

Abstract New Global Burden of Disease estimates for liver cirrhosis, published in BMC
Medicine, suggest that cirrhosis caused over a million deaths in 2010, with a further million …

This first paper of the Lancet Series on ending preventable stillbirths reviews progress in
essential areas, identified in the 2011 call to action for stillbirth prevention, to inform the …

Many modern problems in medicine and public health leverage machine-learning methods
to predict outcomes based on observable covariates. In a wide array of settings, predicted …

Introduction Estimates suggest that one in two deaths go unrecorded globally every year in
terms of medical causes, with the majority occurring in low and middle-income countries …

Background: Reliable and representative cause of death (COD) statistics are essential to
inform public health policy, respond to emerging health needs, and document progress …

Caveolin-1 (CAV1), the structural protein of caveolae in the plasma membrane, has
emerged as a regulator of liver function. CAV1 modulates several molecular pathways …

Background Because most deaths in Africa and Asia are not well documented, estimates of
mortality are often made using scanty data. The INDEPTH Network works to alleviate this …