Published in Lancet on May 27, 2010
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Global, regional, and national prevalence of overweight and obesity in children and adults during 1980-2013: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2013. Lancet (2014) 22.33
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
Reproductive health, and child health and nutrition in India: meeting the challenge. Lancet (2011) 6.19
Sub-Saharan Africa's mothers, newborns, and children: where and why do they die? PLoS Med (2010) 5.54
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
Global epidemiology of sickle haemoglobin in neonates: a contemporary geostatistical model-based map and population estimates. Lancet (2012) 4.62
Causes of neonatal and child mortality in India: a nationally representative mortality survey. Lancet (2010) 4.59
Modeling causes of death: an integrated approach using CODEm. Popul Health Metr (2012) 3.12
Global perspective on early diagnosis and intervention for children with developmental delays and disabilities. Dev Med Child Neurol (2012) 2.64
Thirty years after Alma-Ata: a systematic review of the impact of community health workers delivering curative interventions against malaria, pneumonia and diarrhoea on child mortality and morbidity in sub-Saharan Africa. Hum Resour Health (2011) 2.47
Reductions in malaria and anaemia case and death burden at hospitals following scale-up of malaria control in Zanzibar, 1999-2008. Malar J (2011) 2.45
Global burden of sickle cell anaemia in children under five, 2010-2050: modelling based on demographics, excess mortality, and interventions. PLoS Med (2013) 2.36
Challenges in infant immunity: implications for responses to infection and vaccines. Nat Immunol (2011) 2.17
Setting research priorities to reduce almost one million deaths from birth asphyxia by 2015. PLoS Med (2011) 2.01
Enterovirus 68 among children with severe acute respiratory infection, the Philippines. Emerg Infect Dis (2011) 1.96
Child mortality estimation: appropriate time periods for child mortality estimates from full birth histories. PLoS Med (2012) 1.93
Increasing malaria hospital admissions in Uganda between 1999 and 2009. BMC Med (2011) 1.92
Global, regional, and national causes of under-5 mortality in 2000-15: an updated systematic analysis with implications for the Sustainable Development Goals. Lancet (2016) 1.84
National and subnational mortality effects of metabolic risk factors and smoking in Iran: a comparative risk assessment. Popul Health Metr (2011) 1.81
The imperfect world of global health estimates. PLoS Med (2010) 1.81
Child mortality estimation: a comparison of UN IGME and IHME estimates of levels and trends in under-five mortality rates and deaths. PLoS Med (2012) 1.78
Estimating the global prevalence of zinc deficiency: results based on zinc availability in national food supplies and the prevalence of stunting. PLoS One (2012) 1.73
Associations of suboptimal growth with all-cause and cause-specific mortality in children under five years: a pooled analysis of ten prospective studies. PLoS One (2013) 1.71
Why are women dying when they reach hospital on time? A systematic review of the 'third delay'. PLoS One (2013) 1.68
Lives saved by tuberculosis control and prospects for achieving the 2015 global target for reducing tuberculosis mortality. Bull World Health Organ (2011) 1.64
Expanded Quality Management Using Information Power (EQUIP): protocol for a quasi-experimental study to improve maternal and newborn health in Tanzania and Uganda. Implement Sci (2014) 1.59
Improving quality of care for maternal and newborn health: prospective pilot study of the WHO safe childbirth checklist program. PLoS One (2012) 1.55
Can volunteer community health workers decrease child morbidity and mortality in southwestern Uganda? An impact evaluation. PLoS One (2011) 1.47
Effect of increased concentrations of atmospheric carbon dioxide on the global threat of zinc deficiency: a modelling study. Lancet Glob Health (2015) 1.45
Pregnancy and infant outcomes among HIV-infected women taking long-term ART with and without tenofovir in the DART trial. PLoS Med (2012) 1.44
A systematic review of Demographic and Health Surveys: data availability and utilization for research. Bull World Health Organ (2012) 1.43
Pre-vaccination nasopharyngeal pneumococcal carriage in a Nigerian population: epidemiology and population biology. PLoS One (2012) 1.37
Does integrated management of childhood illness (IMCI) training improve the skills of health workers? A systematic review and meta-analysis. PLoS One (2013) 1.37
Association between clean delivery kit use, clean delivery practices, and neonatal survival: pooled analysis of data from three sites in South Asia. PLoS Med (2012) 1.34
Excess child mortality after discharge from hospital in Kilifi, Kenya: a retrospective cohort analysis. Bull World Health Organ (2011) 1.34
Equity and geography: the case of child mortality in Papua New Guinea. PLoS One (2012) 1.33
Production and analysis of health indicators: the role of academia. PLoS Med (2010) 1.32
Effect of investment in malaria control on child mortality in sub-Saharan Africa in 2002-2008. PLoS One (2011) 1.32
Early acquisition and high nasopharyngeal co-colonisation by Streptococcus pneumoniae and three respiratory pathogens amongst Gambian new-borns and infants. BMC Infect Dis (2011) 1.31
Setting research priorities for preconception care in low- and middle-income countries: aiming to reduce maternal and child mortality and morbidity. PLoS Med (2013) 1.26
Trends in causes of death among children under 5 in Bangladesh, 1993-2004: an exercise applying a standardized computer algorithm to assign causes of death using verbal autopsy data. Popul Health Metr (2011) 1.24
First look: a cluster-randomized trial of ultrasound to improve pregnancy outcomes in low income country settings. BMC Pregnancy Childbirth (2014) 1.21
Quality of maternal and neonatal care in Albania, Turkmenistan and Kazakhstan: a systematic, standard-based, participatory assessment. PLoS One (2011) 1.19
Periods of child growth up to age 8 years in Ethiopia, India, Peru and Vietnam: key distal household and community factors. Soc Sci Med (2013) 1.18
A prospective study on neonatal mortality and its predictors in a rural area in Burkina Faso: can MDG-4 be met by 2015? J Perinatol (2011) 1.17
Mortality causes in children 1-59 months in iran. Iran J Public Health (2013) 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
The new global health. Emerg Infect Dis (2013) 1.16
Understanding the role of mHealth and other media interventions for behavior change to enhance child survival and development in low- and middle-income countries: an evidence review. J Health Commun (2014) 1.16
Health system support for childbirth care in Southern Tanzania: results from a health facility census. BMC Res Notes (2013) 1.15
Implementing knowledge into practice for improved neonatal survival; a cluster-randomised, community-based trial in Quang Ninh province, Vietnam. BMC Health Serv Res (2011) 1.15
Household concentrations and exposure of children to particulate matter from biomass fuels in The Gambia. Environ Sci Technol (2012) 1.14
Global health: the Fogarty International Center, National Institutes of Health: vision and mission, programs, and accomplishments. Infect Dis Clin North Am (2011) 1.14
The uptake of integrated perinatal prevention of mother-to-child HIV transmission programs in low- and middle-income countries: a systematic review. PLoS One (2013) 1.14
Socioeconomic associations of improved maternal, neonatal, and perinatal survival in Qatar. Int J Womens Health (2010) 1.11
Factors associated with the utilisation of postnatal care services among the mothers of Nepal: analysis of Nepal demographic and health survey 2011. BMC Womens Health (2014) 1.10
Why some women fail to give birth at health facilities: a qualitative study of women's perceptions of perinatal care from rural Southern Malawi. Reprod Health (2013) 1.10
Implementing a simplified neonatal resuscitation protocol-helping babies breathe at birth (HBB) - at a tertiary level hospital in Nepal for an increased perinatal survival. BMC Pediatr (2012) 1.09
Implementation and evaluation of the Helping Babies Breathe curriculum in three resource limited settings: does Helping Babies Breathe save lives? A study protocol. BMC Pregnancy Childbirth (2014) 1.08
Quality of hospital care for sick newborns and severely malnourished children in Kenya: a two-year descriptive study in 8 hospitals. BMC Health Serv Res (2011) 1.08
Community acquired bacteremia in young children from central Nigeria--a pilot study. BMC Infect Dis (2011) 1.07
Social inequality and infant health in the UK: systematic review and meta-analyses. BMJ Open (2012) 1.07
Comparing estimates of child mortality reduction modelled in LiST with pregnancy history survey data for a community-based NGO project in Mozambique. BMC Public Health (2011) 1.06
Stagnant neonatal mortality and persistent health inequality in middle-income countries: a case study of the Philippines. PLoS One (2013) 1.06
Availability, prices and affordability of the World Health Organization's essential medicines for children in Guatemala. Global Health (2012) 1.05
Preconception care: closing the gap in the continuum of care to accelerate improvements in maternal, newborn and child health. Reprod Health (2014) 1.04
The continuing invisibility of women and children. Lancet (2010) 1.04
Evaluating the quality of national mortality statistics from civil registration in South Africa, 1997-2007. PLoS One (2013) 1.02
The world health organization multicountry survey on maternal and newborn health: study protocol. BMC Health Serv Res (2011) 1.01
A systematic review of risk factors for neonatal mortality in adolescent mother's in Sub Saharan Africa. BMC Res Notes (2014) 1.01
Under-5 mortality due to HIV: regional levels and 1990-2009 trends. Sex Transm Infect (2010) 0.99
Facilitators and barriers to quality of care in maternal, newborn and child health: a global situational analysis through metareview. BMJ Open (2014) 0.99
Impact of referral transport system on institutional deliveries in Haryana, India. Indian J Med Res (2014) 0.99
Determinants of neonatal mortality in Nigeria: evidence from the 2008 demographic and health survey. BMC Public Health (2014) 0.98
Benchmarking health system performance across districts in Zambia: a systematic analysis of levels and trends in key maternal and child health interventions from 1990 to 2010. BMC Med (2015) 0.98
Newborn care practices at home and in health facilities in 4 regions of Ethiopia. BMC Pediatr (2013) 0.98
Ghana's Ensure Mothers and Babies Regular Access to Care (EMBRACE) program: study protocol for a cluster randomized controlled trial. Trials (2015) 0.97
Establishment of a Maternal Newborn Health Registry in the Belgaum District of Karnataka, India. Reprod Health (2015) 0.97
Removing user fees for facility-based delivery services: a difference-in-differences evaluation from ten sub-Saharan African countries. Health Policy Plan (2014) 0.97
Global health-a circumpolar perspective. Am J Public Health (2012) 0.96
Cost Effectiveness of Implementing Integrated Management of Neonatal and Childhood Illnesses Program in District Faridabad, India. PLoS One (2016) 0.95
Neonatal mortality: an invisible and marginalised trauma. Glob Health Action (2011) 0.95
Burden of disease in adults admitted to hospital in a rural region of coastal Kenya: an analysis of data from linked clinical and demographic surveillance systems. Lancet Glob Health (2014) 0.95
Estimating the global prevalence of inadequate zinc intake from national food balance sheets: effects of methodological assumptions. PLoS One (2012) 0.94
Trends in perinatal deaths from 2010 to 2013 in the Guatemalan Western Highlands. Reprod Health (2015) 0.94
Cost-effectiveness of the "helping babies breathe" program in a missionary hospital in rural Tanzania. PLoS One (2014) 0.93
Health workforce contributions to health system development: a platform for universal health coverage. Bull World Health Organ (2013) 0.93
The last one heard: the importance of an early-stage participatory evaluation for programme implementation. Implement Sci (2014) 0.92
Factors associated with mortality and length of stay in hospitalised neonates in Eritrea, Africa: a cross-sectional study. BMJ Open (2012) 0.92
The high burden of infant deaths in rural Burkina Faso: a prospective community-based cohort study. BMC Public Health (2012) 0.92
Estimation of birth population-based perinatal-neonatal mortality and preterm rate in China from a regional survey in 2010. J Matern Fetal Neonatal Med (2013) 0.92
Neonatal survival in complex humanitarian emergencies: setting an evidence-based research agenda. Confl Health (2014) 0.91
Temporal trends (1977-2007) and ethnic inequity in child mortality in rural villages of southern Guinea Bissau. BMC Public Health (2011) 0.91
Lessons learned from stakeholders in a facilitation intervention targeting neonatal health in Quang Ninh province, Vietnam. BMC Pregnancy Childbirth (2013) 0.90
Does a ban on informal health providers save lives? Evidence from Malawi. J Dev Econ (2016) 0.90
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
Global and regional burden of disease and risk factors, 2001: systematic analysis of population health data. Lancet (2006) 37.83
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
Household catastrophic health expenditure: a multicountry analysis. Lancet (2003) 20.07
Global malaria mortality between 1980 and 2010: a systematic analysis. Lancet (2012) 17.62
Global burden of disease attributable to mental and substance use disorders: findings from the Global Burden of Disease Study 2010. Lancet (2013) 16.76
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
Financing of global health: tracking development assistance for health from 1990 to 2007. Lancet (2009) 13.41
Global epidemiology of hepatitis C virus infection: new estimates of age-specific antibody to HCV seroprevalence. Hepatology (2013) 12.46
The preventable causes of death in the United States: comparative risk assessment of dietary, lifestyle, and metabolic risk factors. PLoS Med (2009) 12.13
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
Public financing of health in developing countries: a cross-national systematic analysis. Lancet (2010) 11.22
Estimates of global mortality attributable to smoking in 2000. Lancet (2003) 10.52
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
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
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
Can we achieve Millennium Development Goal 4? New analysis of country trends and forecasts of under-5 mortality to 2015. Lancet (2007) 6.72
Causes of cancer in the world: comparative risk assessment of nine behavioural and environmental risk factors. Lancet (2005) 6.63
Trends in national and state-level obesity in the USA after correction for self-report bias: analysis of health surveys. J R Soc Med (2006) 6.11
UK health performance: findings of the Global Burden of Disease Study 2010. Lancet (2013) 6.11
Burden of depressive disorders by country, sex, age, and year: findings from the global burden of disease study 2010. PLoS Med (2013) 6.04
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
Civil registration systems and vital statistics: successes and missed opportunities. Lancet (2007) 5.67
Increased educational attainment and its effect on child mortality in 175 countries between 1970 and 2009: a systematic analysis. Lancet (2010) 5.36
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
Worldwide epidemiology of atrial fibrillation: a Global Burden of Disease 2010 Study. Circulation (2013) 4.60
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
Global and regional mortality from ischaemic heart disease and stroke attributable to higher-than-optimum blood glucose concentration: comparative risk assessment. Lancet (2006) 4.26
Validation of verbal autopsy procedures for adult deaths in China. Int J Epidemiol (2005) 4.20
Comparability of self rated health: cross sectional multi-country survey using anchoring vignettes. BMJ (2004) 3.94
A systematic analysis of global anemia burden from 1990 to 2010. Blood (2013) 3.94
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 reversal of fortunes: trends in county mortality and cross-county mortality disparities in the United States. PLoS Med (2008) 3.73
Global burden of disease attributable to illicit drug use and dependence: findings from the Global Burden of Disease Study 2010. Lancet (2013) 3.65
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
WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control: development of an evidence based global public health treaty. BMJ (2003) 3.42