Global burden of diseases, injuries, and risk factors for young people's health during 1990-2013: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2013

AH Mokdad; MHO Forouzanfar; F Daoud; AA Mokdad; C El Bcheraoui; M Moradi-Lakeh; HHM Kyu; RM Barber; J Wagner; K Cercy; H Kravitz; M Coggeshall; A Chew; KF O'Rourke; C Steiner; M Tuffaha; R Charara; EAB Al-Ghamdi; Y Adi; RA Afifi; H Alahmadi; F AlBuhairan; N Allen; M AlMazroa; AA Al-Nehmi; Z AlRayess; M Arora; P Azzopardi; C Barroso; M Basulaiman; ZA Bhutta; C Bonell; C Breinbauer; L Degenhardt; D Denno; J Fang; A Fatusi; AB Feigl; R Kakuma; N Karam; E Kennedy; TAM Khoja; F Maalouf; CMA Obermeyer; A Mattoo; T McGovern; ZA Memish; GA Mensah; V Patel; S Petroni; N Reavley; DRI Zertuche; M Saeedi; J Santelli; SM Sawyer; F Ssewamala; K Taiwo; M Tantawy; RM Viner; J Waldfogel; MPA Zuñiga; M Naghavi; H Wang; T Vos; AD Lopez; AA Al Rabeeah; GC Patton; CJL Murray

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Global burden of diseases, injuries, and risk factors for young people's health during 1990-2013: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2013

AH Mokdad, MHO Forouzanfar, F Daoud, AA Mokdad, C El Bcheraoui, M Moradi-Lakeh, HHM Kyu, RM Barber, J Wagner, K Cercy, H Kravitz, M Coggeshall, A Chew, KF O'Rourke, C Steiner, M Tuffaha, R Charara, EAB Al-Ghamdi, Y Adi, RA Afifi Show all

Lancet (London, England) | ELSEVIER SCIENCE INC | Published : 2016

DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(16)00648-6

Abstract

Copyright © 2016 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. BACKGROUND: Young people's health has emerged as a neglected yet pressing issue in global development. Changing patterns of young people's health have the potential to undermine future population health as well as global economic development unless timely and effective strategies are put into place. We report the past, present, and anticipated burden of disease in young people aged 10-24 years from 1990 to 2013 using data on mortality, disability, injuries, and health risk factors. METHODS: The Global Burden of Disease Study 2013 (GBD 2013) includes annual assessments for 188 countries from 1990 to 2013, covering 306 diseases and injuries, ..

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University of Melbourne Researchers

Peter Azzopardi Author

Amitabh Mattoo Author

Nicola Reavley Author

Susan Sawyer Author

Grants

Awarded by National Health and Medical Research Council

Funding Acknowledgements

LD is supported by an Australian National Health and Medical Research Council Principal Research Fellowship (1041742). EK gratefully acknowledges the contribution of the Victorian Operational Infrastructure Support Program received by the Burnet Institute to this work. NR receives salary support from the National Health and Medical Research Council, Australia. The views expressed in this article are those of the authors and do not necessarily represent the views of the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, National Institutes of Health, or Department of Health and Human Services. We would like to thank Wendy Baldwin for her important contributions to this manuscript.