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16 cze 2012 · The “circumstances in which people grow, live, work, and age” strongly influence how people live and die. Education, housing, food and employment all impact on health. Redressing inequalities in these will reduce inequalities in health.
31 gru 2010 · Top 10 health stories of 2010. December 31, 2010. By Peter Wehrwein, Contributor, Harvard Health. 1. Health care reform. How could the health care reform legislation that President Barack Obama signed into law on March 23, 2010, not be the #1 story of the year?
30 maj 2010 · The World Health Statistics series is WHO’s annual compilation of health-related data for its 193 Member States, and includes a summary of the progress made towards achieving the health-related Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and associated targets.
The Global Burden of Disease Study (GBD) 2010 provides estimates of the prevalence of 1160 sequelae of disease and injury based on systematic analyses of all available data for 187 countries in 1990 and 2010, along with new estimates of disability weights representing the magnitude of health losses associated with each sequela. 65,66 Because ...
GBD 2010 is the first systematic and comprehensive assessment of data on disease, injuries, and risk since 1990. That initial exercise was commissioned by the World Bank. This latest round was supported by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. The project has dramatically expanded in scope.
13 gru 2012 · Researchers examined more than 300 diseases, injuries, and risk factors and found that just 50 distinct causes account for 78% of the global burden. Just 18 of those account for more than half the burden.
15 gru 2012 · Healthy life expectancy (HALE) summarises mortality and non-fatal outcomes in a single measure of average population health. It has been used to compare health between countries, or to measure changes over time. These comparisons can inform policy questions that depend on how morbidity changes as mortality decreases.
