Global and national burden of diseases and injuries among children and adolescents between 1990 and 2013 findings from the global burden of disease 2013 study

T Vos; HH Kyu; C Pinho; JA Wagner; JC Brown; A Bertozzi-Villa; FJ Charlson; LE Coffeng; L Dandona; HE Erskine; AJ Ferrari; C Fitzmaurice; TD Fleming; MH Forouzanfar; N Graetz; C Guinovart; J Haagsma; H Higashi; NJ Kassebaum; HJ Larson; SS Lim; AH Mokdad; M Moradi-Lakeh; SV Odell; GA Roth; PT Serina; JD Stanaway; A Misganaw; HA Whiteford; TM Wolock; SW Hanson; F Abd-Allah; SF Abera; LJ Abu-Raddad; FS Al Buhairan; AT Amare; CAT Antonio; A Artaman; SL Barker-Collo; LH Barrero; C Benjet; IM Bensenor; ZA Bhutta; B Bikbov; A Brazinova; I Campos-Nonato; CA Castañeda-Orjuela; F Catalá-López; R Chowdhury; C Cooper; JA Crump; R Dandona; L Degenhardt; RP Dellavalle; SD Dharmaratne; EJA Faraon; VL Feigin; T Fürst; JM Geleijnse; BD Gessner; KB Gibney; A Goto; D Gunnell; GJ Hankey; RJ Hay; JC Hornberger; HD Hosgood; G Hu; KH Jacobsen; SP Jayaraman; P Jeemon; JB Jonas; A Karch; D Kim; S Kim; Y Kokubo; BK Defo; BK Bicer; GA Kumar; A Larsson; JL Leasher; R Leung; Y Li; SE Lipshultz; AD Lopez; PA Lotufo; R Lunevicius; RA Lyons; M Majdan; R Malekzadeh; T Mashal; AJ Mason-Jones; YA Melaku; ZA Memish; W Mendoza; TR Miller; CN Mock; J Murray; S Nolte; IH Oh

Journal article

Global and national burden of diseases and injuries among children and adolescents between 1990 and 2013 findings from the global burden of disease 2013 study

T Vos, HH Kyu, C Pinho, JA Wagner, JC Brown, A Bertozzi-Villa, FJ Charlson, LE Coffeng, L Dandona, HE Erskine, AJ Ferrari, C Fitzmaurice, TD Fleming, MH Forouzanfar, N Graetz, C Guinovart, J Haagsma, H Higashi, NJ Kassebaum, HJ Larson Show all

JAMA Pediatrics | AMER MEDICAL ASSOC | Published : 2016

DOI: 10.1001/jamapediatrics.2015.4276

Abstract

IMPORTANCE: The literature focuses on mortality among children younger than 5 years. Comparable information on nonfatal health outcomes among these children and the fatal and nonfatal burden of diseases and injuries among older children and adolescents is scarce. OBJECTIVE: To determine levels and trends in the fatal and nonfatal burden of diseases and injuries among younger children (aged < 5 years), older children (aged 5-9 years), and adolescents (aged 10-19 years) between 1990 and 2013 in 188 countries from the Global Burden of Disease (GBD) 2013 study. EVIDENCE REVIEW: Data from vital registration, verbal autopsy studies, maternal and child death surveillance, and other sources covering..

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Katherine Gibney Author

Robert Weintraub Author

Grants

Awarded by Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation

Funding Acknowledgements

The Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation was supported by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. Dr Catala-Lopez was supported in part by grant PROMETEOII/2015/021 from Generalitat Valenciana. Dr Fitzmaurice was supported by grant 5T32HL007093-40 from the National Institutes of Health. Dr J. Murray was supported by grant 089963/Z/09/Z from the Wellcome Trust.