Published in Lancet on September 22, 2007
Global, regional, and national levels of neonatal, infant, and under-5 mortality during 1990-2013: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2013. Lancet (2014) 9.68
Neonatal mortality levels for 193 countries in 2009 with trends since 1990: a systematic analysis of progress, projections, and priorities. PLoS Med (2011) 5.33
Newborn-care training and perinatal mortality in developing countries. N Engl J Med (2010) 4.54
Global perspective on early diagnosis and intervention for children with developmental delays and disabilities. Dev Med Child Neurol (2012) 2.64
What can we conclude from death registration? Improved methods for evaluating completeness. PLoS Med (2010) 2.61
Setting research priorities to reduce global mortality from childhood diarrhoea by 2015. PLoS Med (2009) 2.55
Setting research priorities to reduce global mortality from childhood pneumonia by 2015. PLoS Med (2011) 2.36
Measuring adult mortality using sibling survival: a new analytical method and new results for 44 countries, 1974-2006. PLoS Med (2010) 2.32
Measuring under-five mortality: validation of new low-cost methods. PLoS Med (2010) 2.14
Cause-of-death ascertainment for deaths that occur outside hospitals in Thailand: application of verbal autopsy methods. Popul Health Metr (2010) 1.99
Access to health care and mortality of children under 5 years of age in the Gambia: a case-control study. Bull World Health Organ (2009) 1.81
Four million neonatal deaths: counting and attribution of cause of death. Paediatr Perinat Epidemiol (2008) 1.80
Lives saved by tuberculosis control and prospects for achieving the 2015 global target for reducing tuberculosis mortality. Bull World Health Organ (2011) 1.64
Concurrent partnerships and HIV: an inconvenient truth. J Int AIDS Soc (2011) 1.64
Cause-specific mortality patterns among hospital deaths in Thailand: validating routine death certification. Popul Health Metr (2010) 1.60
Setting research priorities to reduce global mortality from preterm birth and low birth weight by 2015. J Glob Health (2012) 1.58
Comparative impact assessment of child pneumonia interventions. Bull World Health Organ (2009) 1.49
High mortality rates for very low birth weight infants in developing countries despite training. Pediatrics (2010) 1.44
Equity and geography: the case of child mortality in Papua New Guinea. PLoS One (2012) 1.33
UN Millennium Development Goals and Oman: Kudos to Oman on its 40th National Day. Sultan Qaboos Univ Med J (2010) 1.18
Measuring and correcting biased child mortality statistics in countries with generalized epidemics of HIV infection. Bull World Health Organ (2010) 1.17
Cause-specific neonatal mortality in a neonatal care unit in Northern Tanzania: a registry based cohort study. BMC Pediatr (2012) 1.17
The global burden of neonatal hypothermia: systematic review of a major challenge for newborn survival. BMC Med (2013) 1.17
Clustering of under-five mortality in Rufiji Health and Demographic Surveillance System in rural Tanzania. Glob Health Action (2010) 1.09
Young children's probability of dying before and after their mother's death: a rural South African population-based surveillance study. PLoS Med (2013) 1.08
Stagnant neonatal mortality and persistent health inequality in middle-income countries: a case study of the Philippines. PLoS One (2013) 1.06
Declining child mortality in northern Malawi despite high rates of infection with HIV. Bull World Health Organ (2010) 1.05
Policy challenges for the pediatric rheumatology workforce: Part III. the international situation. Pediatr Rheumatol Online J (2011) 1.00
Under-5 mortality due to HIV: regional levels and 1990-2009 trends. Sex Transm Infect (2010) 0.99
Performance based financing and uptake of maternal and child health services in yobe sate, northern Nigeria. Glob J Health Sci (2013) 0.97
Quantifying child mortality reductions related to measles vaccination. PLoS One (2010) 0.94
Utilization of health care services for childhood morbidity and associated factors in India: a national cross-sectional household survey. PLoS One (2012) 0.94
Using historical vital statistics to predict the distribution of under-five mortality by cause. Clin Med Res (2010) 0.93
Financing maternal and child health--what are the limitations in estimating donor flows and resource needs? PLoS Med (2010) 0.90
Proximity to health services and child survival in low- and middle-income countries: a systematic review and meta-analysis. BMJ Open (2012) 0.89
Determinants of neonatal mortality in rural India, 2007-2008. PeerJ (2013) 0.89
Disparities in child mortality trends: what is the evidence from disadvantaged states in India? the case of Orissa and Madhya Pradesh. Int J Equity Health (2013) 0.89
Coverage of vitamin A capsule programme in Bangladesh and risk factors associated with non-receipt of vitamin A. J Health Popul Nutr (2010) 0.87
The global burden of childhood coeliac disease: a neglected component of diarrhoeal mortality? PLoS One (2011) 0.87
Access to essential technologies for safe childbirth: a survey of health workers in Africa and Asia. BMC Pregnancy Childbirth (2013) 0.86
Time trends and inequalities of under-five mortality in Nepal: a secondary data analysis of four demographic and health surveys between 1996 and 2011. PLoS One (2013) 0.86
Achieving MDG 4 in sub-Saharan Africa: what has contributed to the accelerated child mortality decline in Ghana? PLoS One (2011) 0.83
Disparities in Under-Five Child Injury Mortality between Developing and Developed Countries: 1990-2013. Int J Environ Res Public Health (2016) 0.82
Disparities in child mortality trends in two new states of India. BMC Public Health (2013) 0.82
Comparative analysis of old-age mortality estimations in Africa. PLoS One (2011) 0.81
Mortality inequality in 1-59 months children across Iranian provinces: referring system and determinants of death based on hospital records. Int J Prev Med (2013) 0.81
Factors affecting the introduction of new vaccines to poor nations: a comparative study of the Haemophilus influenzae type B and hepatitis B vaccines. PLoS One (2010) 0.80
Still births, neonatal deaths and neonatal near miss cases attributable to severe obstetric complications: a prospective cohort study in two referral hospitals in Uganda. BMC Pediatr (2015) 0.78
Entrenched geographical and socioeconomic disparities in child mortality: trends in absolute and relative inequalities in Cambodia. PLoS One (2014) 0.78
Childhood diarrhoea: failing conventional measures, what next? Pan Afr Med J (2011) 0.78
The Magnitude of Under-five Emergencies in a Resource-poor Environment of a Rural Hospital in Eastern Nigeria: Implication for Strengthening the House-hold and Community-integrated Management of Childhood Illnesses. N Am J Med Sci (2012) 0.78
Comparing progress toward the millennium development goal for under-five mortality in León and Cuatro Santos, Nicaragua, 1990-2008. BMC Pediatr (2014) 0.77
Estimating the under-five mortality rate using a bayesian hierarchical time series model. PLoS One (2011) 0.77
Correction of vital statistics based on a proactive search of deaths and live births: evidence from a study of the North and Northeast regions of Brazil. Popul Health Metr (2014) 0.77
Prevalence of diarrhea among children less than 36 months of age in rural western China in 2001 and 2005. Am J Trop Med Hyg (2014) 0.75
Setting development goals using stochastic dynamical system models. PLoS One (2017) 0.75
Mortality-related factors disparity among Iranian deceased children aged 1-59 months according to the medical activities in emergency units: National mortality surveillance system. J Res Med Sci (2012) 0.75
The Difficult Task of Evaluating MDG-4: Monitoring Trends in Child Survival in Africa. Glob Pediatr Health (2015) 0.75
Factors associated with compliance with the recommended frequency of postnatal care services in three rural districts of Tanzania. BMC Pregnancy Childbirth (2015) 0.75
The usual words of caution. Bull World Health Organ (2008) 0.75
Factors associated with infant mortality in Nepal: a comparative analysis of Nepal demographic and health surveys (NDHS) 2006 and 2011. BMC Public Health (2017) 0.75
The mortality of patients in a pediatric emergency department at a tertiary medical center in China: An observational study. World J Emerg Med (2015) 0.75
New estimates of global under-5 mortality. Lancet (2007) 0.75
Effect of Governance Indicators on Under-Five Mortality in OECD Nations: Generalized Method of Moments. Electron Physician (2016) 0.75
A retrospective cohort study to quantify the contribution of health systems to child survival in Kenya: 1996-2014. Sci Rep (2017) 0.75
Association Between Maternal and Child Health Handbook and Quality of Antenatal Care Services in Palestine. Matern Child Health J (2017) 0.75
SURVEILLANCE OF CHILD DEVELOPMENT: AN ANALYSIS OF BRAZIL'S SITUATION. Rev Paul Pediatr (2017) 0.75
Autism spectrum disorder in sub-saharan africa: A comprehensive scoping review. Autism Res (2017) 0.75
Global and regional mortality from 235 causes of death for 20 age groups in 1990 and 2010: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2010. Lancet (2012) 56.72
Disability-adjusted life years (DALYs) for 291 diseases and injuries in 21 regions, 1990-2010: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2010. Lancet (2012) 41.47
Maternal mortality for 181 countries, 1980-2008: a systematic analysis of progress towards Millennium Development Goal 5. Lancet (2010) 33.69
Years lived with disability (YLDs) for 1160 sequelae of 289 diseases and injuries 1990-2010: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2010. Lancet (2012) 26.95
Selected major risk factors and global and regional burden of disease. Lancet (2002) 24.47
WHO estimates of the causes of death in children. Lancet (2005) 18.33
Global malaria mortality between 1980 and 2010: a systematic analysis. Lancet (2012) 17.62
Counting the dead and what they died from: an assessment of the global status of cause of death data. Bull World Health Organ (2005) 15.50
Progress towards Millennium Development Goals 4 and 5 on maternal and child mortality: an updated systematic analysis. Lancet (2011) 14.16
Neonatal, postneonatal, childhood, and under-5 mortality for 187 countries, 1970-2010: a systematic analysis of progress towards Millennium Development Goal 4. Lancet (2010) 12.28
Common values in assessing health outcomes from disease and injury: disability weights measurement study for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2010. Lancet (2012) 11.32
Estimates of global mortality attributable to smoking in 2000. Lancet (2003) 10.52
The state of US health, 1990-2010: burden of diseases, injuries, and risk factors. JAMA (2013) 10.43
Estimation of potential global pandemic influenza mortality on the basis of vital registry data from the 1918-20 pandemic: a quantitative analysis. Lancet (2006) 9.85
50 years of pursuing a healthy society in Japan. Lancet (2011) 9.40
GBD 2010: design, definitions, and metrics. Lancet (2012) 8.64
Healthy life expectancy for 187 countries, 1990-2010: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden Disease Study 2010. Lancet (2012) 8.22
What has made the population of Japan healthy? Lancet (2011) 8.18
50-year trends in smoking-related mortality in the United States. N Engl J Med (2013) 7.80
Breast and cervical cancer in 187 countries between 1980 and 2010: a systematic analysis. Lancet (2011) 7.71
Rapid health transition in China, 1990-2010: findings from the Global Burden of Disease Study 2010. Lancet (2013) 7.70
Age-specific and sex-specific mortality in 187 countries, 1970-2010: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2010. Lancet (2012) 7.62
Verbal autopsy: current practices and challenges. Bull World Health Organ (2006) 6.66
Causes of cancer in the world: comparative risk assessment of nine behavioural and environmental risk factors. Lancet (2005) 6.63
UK health performance: findings of the Global Burden of Disease Study 2010. Lancet (2013) 6.11
Measuring the global burden of disease. N Engl J Med (2013) 5.84
Social inequalities in male mortality, and in male mortality from smoking: indirect estimation from national death rates in England and Wales, Poland, and North America. Lancet (2006) 5.70
Stillbirth rates: delivering estimates in 190 countries. Lancet (2006) 5.70
Civil registration systems and vital statistics: successes and missed opportunities. Lancet (2007) 5.67
Estimating child mortality due to diarrhoea in developing countries. Bull World Health Organ (2008) 5.59
Estimates of global and regional potential health gains from reducing multiple major risk factors. Lancet (2003) 5.26
Measuring the burden of neglected tropical diseases: the global burden of disease framework. PLoS Negl Trop Dis (2007) 4.87
Rethinking the "diseases of affluence" paradigm: global patterns of nutritional risks in relation to economic development. PLoS Med (2005) 4.64
No cry at birth: global estimates of intrapartum stillbirths and intrapartum-related neonatal deaths. Bull World Health Organ (2005) 4.49
Monitoring global health: time for new solutions. BMJ (2004) 4.39
Validation of the symptom pattern method for analyzing verbal autopsy data. PLoS Med (2007) 4.35
Validation of verbal autopsy procedures for adult deaths in China. Int J Epidemiol (2005) 4.20
Japanese universal health coverage: evolution, achievements, and challenges. Lancet (2011) 4.07
Association of maternal stature with offspring mortality, underweight, and stunting in low- to middle-income countries. JAMA (2010) 3.90
Health Effects of Overweight and Obesity in 195 Countries over 25 Years. N Engl J Med (2017) 3.90
Worldwide mortality in men and women aged 15-59 years from 1970 to 2010: a systematic analysis. Lancet (2010) 3.89
The Global Campaign for the Health MDGs: challenges, opportunities, and the imperative of shared learning. Lancet (2007) 3.86
Global mortality associated with rotavirus disease among children in 2004. J Infect Dis (2009) 3.63
Validity of verbal autopsy procedures for determining cause of death in Tanzania. Trop Med Int Health (2006) 3.62
Burden of disease and injury in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples: the Indigenous health gap. Int J Epidemiol (2008) 3.61
Setting international standards for verbal autopsy. Bull World Health Organ (2007) 3.59
Role of smoking in global and regional cardiovascular mortality. Circulation (2005) 3.57
Statistical modeling and projections of lung cancer mortality in 4 industrialized countries. Int J Cancer (2005) 3.53
Adult mortality: time for a reappraisal. Int J Epidemiol (2004) 3.41
Mortality registration and surveillance in China: History, current situation and challenges. Popul Health Metr (2005) 3.31
Sample registration of vital events with verbal autopsy: a renewed commitment to measuring and monitoring vital statistics. Bull World Health Organ (2005) 3.30
The way forward. Lancet (2007) 3.28
Global and regional estimates of cancer mortality and incidence by site: II. Results for the global burden of disease 2000. BMC Cancer (2002) 3.26
Population Health Metrics Research Consortium gold standard verbal autopsy validation study: design, implementation, and development of analysis datasets. Popul Health Metr (2011) 3.21
Population ageing and wellbeing: lessons from Japan's long-term care insurance policy. Lancet (2011) 3.15
Modeling causes of death: an integrated approach using CODEm. Popul Health Metr (2012) 3.12
Robust metrics for assessing the performance of different verbal autopsy cause assignment methods in validation studies. Popul Health Metr (2011) 3.10
Stages of the cigarette epidemic on entering its second century. Tob Control (2012) 2.98
Mortality in the Islamic Republic of Iran, 1964-2004. Bull World Health Organ (2007) 2.93
Validation of cause-of-death statistics in urban China. Int J Epidemiol (2007) 2.89
Macrosomia in 23 developing countries: an analysis of a multicountry, facility-based, cross-sectional survey. Lancet (2013) 2.89
Cost containment and quality of care in Japan: is there a trade-off? Lancet (2011) 2.87
Distribution of major health risks: findings from the Global Burden of Disease study. PLoS Med (2004) 2.84
Characterizing the epidemiological transition in Mexico: national and subnational burden of diseases, injuries, and risk factors. PLoS Med (2008) 2.83
Comparative quantification of health risks conceptual framework and methodological issues. Popul Health Metr (2003) 2.80
Mortality in China 1964-2000. Popul Stud (Camb) (2004) 2.76
Interim measures for meeting needs for health sector data: births, deaths, and causes of death. Lancet (2007) 2.71
Global burden of disease 2005: call for collaborators. Lancet (2007) 2.64
Burden of disease and injury in Australia in the new millennium: measuring health loss from diseases, injuries and risk factors. Med J Aust (2008) 2.63
Role of smoking in global and regional cancer epidemiology: current patterns and data needs. Int J Cancer (2005) 2.62
Performance of physician-certified verbal autopsies: multisite validation study using clinical diagnostic gold standards. Popul Health Metr (2011) 2.62
Transforming growth factor-beta1 induces Nox4 NAD(P)H oxidase and reactive oxygen species-dependent proliferation in human pulmonary artery smooth muscle cells. Am J Physiol Lung Cell Mol Physiol (2005) 2.62
What can we conclude from death registration? Improved methods for evaluating completeness. PLoS Med (2010) 2.61
Using verbal autopsy to measure causes of death: the comparative performance of existing methods. BMC Med (2014) 2.39
Core verbal autopsy procedures with comparative validation results from two countries. PLoS Med (2006) 2.36
Viewpoint: evaluating the impact of malaria control efforts on mortality in sub-Saharan Africa. Trop Med Int Health (2007) 2.36
Measuring adult mortality using sibling survival: a new analytical method and new results for 44 countries, 1974-2006. PLoS Med (2010) 2.32
Reductions in child mortality levels and inequalities in Thailand: analysis of two censuses. Lancet (2007) 2.30
Epidemiologic transition interrupted: a reassessment of mortality trends in Thailand, 1980-2000. Int J Epidemiol (2006) 2.23
Towards universal health coverage: an evaluation of Rwanda Mutuelles in its first eight years. PLoS One (2012) 2.22
Design options for sample-based mortality surveillance. Int J Epidemiol (2005) 2.15