Abstract
Global, regional, and national life expectancy, all-cause mortality, and cause-specific mortality for 249 causes of death, 1980–2015: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2015
Highlights
Comparable information about deaths and mortality rates broken down by age, sex, cause, year, and geography provides a starting point for informed health policy debate
Greater than 50 000 in the year 2000.12 In the Global Burden of Disease (GBD) 2013 study, collaborative teams produced subnational assessments for the UK, Mexico, and China, expanding the number of geographies included in the GBD analysis to 296.7,13–15 The value of such subnational assessments to local decision makers16 has driven further geographical disaggregation for GBD 2015 including in Brazil, India, Japan, Kenya, Saudi Arabia, South Africa, Sweden, and the USA, in addition to updates for China, Mexico, and the UK
The expansion of the geographical units in the GBD studies will continue in a way that will sustain the comparability over time for the period 1990 to present and across all geographic entities
Summary
Comparable information about deaths and mortality rates broken down by age, sex, cause, year, and geography provides a starting point for informed health policy debate. The annual Global Burden of Disease (GBD) analysis provides a standardised approach to addressing these problems, thereby enhancing the capacity to make meaningful comparisons across age, sex, cause, time, and place. Previous iterations of the GBD study showed substantial reductions in under-5 mortality, largely driven by decreasing rates of death from diarrhoeal diseases, lower respiratory infections, malaria, and, in several countries, neonatal conditions and Research in context. In response to demand for up-to-date information on the health of populations to inform health policy debates, annual updates of the GBD study are prepared, with the first of these, the GBD 2013 study, published in 2015.
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