Published in Lancet on September 18, 2010
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
HIV development assistance and adult mortality in Africa. JAMA (2012) 4.14
Measuring socio-economic position for epidemiological studies in low- and middle-income countries: a methods of measurement in epidemiology paper. Int J Epidemiol (2012) 3.93
Global, regional, and national trends in haemoglobin concentration and prevalence of total and severe anaemia in children and pregnant and non-pregnant women for 1995-2011: a systematic analysis of population-representative data. Lancet Glob Health (2013) 3.49
National, regional, and global trends in infertility prevalence since 1990: a systematic analysis of 277 health surveys. PLoS Med (2012) 2.78
Socioeconomic inequalities in risk factors for non communicable diseases in low-income and middle-income countries: results from the World Health Survey. BMC Public Health (2012) 1.77
Measuring coverage in MNCH: challenges and opportunities in the selection of coverage indicators for global monitoring. PLoS Med (2013) 1.53
Global determinants of mortality in under 5s: 10 year worldwide longitudinal study. BMJ (2013) 1.48
A systematic review of Demographic and Health Surveys: data availability and utilization for research. Bull World Health Organ (2012) 1.43
Impact of the provision of safe drinking water on school absence rates in Cambodia: a quasi-experimental study. PLoS One (2014) 1.41
The Impact of Internal Migration on under-Five Mortality in 27 Sub-Saharan African Countries. PLoS One (2016) 1.40
Left behind: widening disparities for males and females in US county life expectancy, 1985-2010. Popul Health Metr (2013) 1.39
Assessing the global burden of ischemic heart disease, part 2: analytic methods and estimates of the global epidemiology of ischemic heart disease in 2010. Glob Heart (2012) 1.26
Under-five mortality in high focus states in India: a district level geospatial analysis. PLoS One (2012) 1.22
How orthodox protestant parents decide on the vaccination of their children: a qualitative study. BMC Public Health (2012) 1.10
The benefits of educating women. Lancet (2010) 0.99
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
Factors Contributing to Maternal and Child Mortality Reductions in 146 Low- and Middle-Income Countries between 1990 and 2010. PLoS One (2016) 0.98
Understanding the association between maternal education and use of health services in Ghana: exploring the role of health knowledge. J Biosoc Sci (2012) 0.97
Global divergence in critical income for adult and childhood survival: analyses of mortality using Michaelis-Menten. Elife (2012) 0.94
Socioeconomic inequalities and mortality trends in BRICS, 1990-2010. Bull World Health Organ (2014) 0.93
Infant mortality and causes of infant deaths in rural Ethiopia: a population-based cohort of 3684 births. BMC Public Health (2015) 0.91
Measuring the displacement and replacement of government health expenditure. Health Econ (2013) 0.90
Association between maternal health literacy and child vaccination in India: a cross-sectional study. J Epidemiol Community Health (2015) 0.89
Prompt access to effective malaria treatment among children under five in sub-Saharan Africa: a multi-country analysis of national household survey data. Malar J (2015) 0.89
Maternal factors contributing to under-five mortality at birth order 1 to 5 in India: a comprehensive multivariate study. Springerplus (2013) 0.89
Nutritional rehabilitation of HIV-exposed infants in Malawi: results from the drug resources enhancement against AIDS and malnutrition program. Int J Environ Res Public Health (2012) 0.87
Association between gender inequality index and child mortality rates: a cross-national study of 138 countries. BMC Public Health (2015) 0.87
The Impact of a School-Based Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene Program on Absenteeism, Diarrhea, and Respiratory Infection: A Matched-Control Trial in Mali. Am J Trop Med Hyg (2016) 0.87
A Randomized Controlled Trial to Increase HIV Preventive Information, Motivation, and Behavioral Skills in Ugandan Adolescents. Ann Behav Med (2015) 0.86
Seasonality of infant feeding practices in three Brazilian birth cohorts. Int J Epidemiol (2012) 0.85
Exposure to intimate partner violence reduces the protective effect that women's high education has on children's corporal punishment: a population-based study. Glob Health Action (2014) 0.85
Maternal and child health: gains, but a long journey ahead. CMAJ (2015) 0.84
Tracking progress towards equitable child survival in a Nicaraguan community: neonatal mortality challenges to meet the MDG 4. BMC Public Health (2011) 0.84
Trends in neonatal mortality in Nigeria and effects of bio-demographic and maternal characteristics. BMC Pediatr (2015) 0.84
Infant and fetal mortality among a high fertility and mortality population in the Bolivian Amazon. Soc Sci Med (2012) 0.83
Ghana's National Health insurance scheme and maternal and child health: a mixed methods study. BMC Health Serv Res (2015) 0.82
Benchmarking health system performance across regions in Uganda: a systematic analysis of levels and trends in key maternal and child health interventions, 1990-2011. BMC Med (2015) 0.82
Changing Polygenic Penetrance on Phenotypes in the 20(th) Century Among Adults in the US Population. Sci Rep (2016) 0.81
Menstruation and the Cycle of Poverty: A Cluster Quasi-Randomised Control Trial of Sanitary Pad and Puberty Education Provision in Uganda. PLoS One (2016) 0.79
Impact of Malaria Control on Mortality and Anemia among Tanzanian Children Less than Five Years of Age, 1999-2010. PLoS One (2015) 0.79
Development of a Spatial and Temporal Agent-Based Model for Studying Water and Health Relationships: The Case Study of Two Villages in Limpopo, South Africa. J Artif Soc Soc Simul (2013) 0.79
Social sector expenditure and child mortality in India: a state-level analysis from 1997 to 2009. PLoS One (2013) 0.79
Rising School Enrollment and Declining HIV and Pregnancy Risk Among Adolescents in Rakai District, Uganda, 1994-2013. Glob Soc Welf (2015) 0.79
Changes in socioeconomic inequality in Indonesian children's cognitive function from 2000 to 2007: a decomposition analysis. PLoS One (2013) 0.78
Exploring models for the roles of health systems' responsiveness and social determinants in explaining universal health coverage and health outcomes. Glob Health Action (2016) 0.78
Adult height, nutrition, and population health. Nutr Rev (2016) 0.78
Measuring Socioeconomic Inequalities in Relation to Malaria Risk: A Comparison of Metrics in Rural Uganda. Am J Trop Med Hyg (2016) 0.78
Assessment on the knowledge and reported practices of women on maternal and child health in rural Sierra Leone: a cross-sectional survey. PLoS One (2014) 0.78
INTER-GENERATIONAL RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN WOMEN'S FERTILITY, ASPIRATIONS FOR THEIR CHILDREN'S EDUCATION AND SCHOOL COMPLETION IN THE PHILIPPINES. J Biosoc Sci (2014) 0.78
Countdown to 2015 country case studies: what can analysis of national health financing contribute to understanding MDG 4 and 5 progress? BMC Public Health (2016) 0.77
Under-five mortality among mothers employed in agriculture: findings from a nationally representative sample. PeerJ (2015) 0.77
The effect of maternal multiple micronutrient supplementation on cognition and mood during pregnancy and postpartum in Indonesia: a randomized trial. PLoS One (2012) 0.77
Comparing progress toward the millennium development goal for under-five mortality in León and Cuatro Santos, Nicaragua, 1990-2008. BMC Pediatr (2014) 0.77
Social Factors Influencing Child Health in Ghana. PLoS One (2016) 0.76
Health and wealth in Mesoamerica: findings from Salud Mesomérica 2015. BMC Med (2015) 0.75
Coverage and timing of antenatal care among poor women in 6 Mesoamerican countries. BMC Pregnancy Childbirth (2016) 0.75
Comprehensive peace agreement implementation and reduction in neonatal, infant and under-5 mortality rates in post-armed conflict states, 1989-2012. BMC Int Health Hum Rights (2015) 0.75
Welfare state retrenchment and increasing mental health inequality by educational credentials in Finland: a multicohort study. BMJ Open (2015) 0.75
Parental Divorce and Children's Schooling in Rural Malawi. Demography (2016) 0.75
Secondary Education and Health Outcomes in Young People from the Cape Area Panel Study (CAPS). PLoS One (2016) 0.75
Using international human rights law to improve child health in low-income countries: a framework for healthcare professionals. BMC Int Health Hum Rights (2016) 0.75
A mixed methods assessment of barriers to maternal, newborn and child health in gogrial west, south Sudan. Reprod Health (2017) 0.75
Maternal-related deaths and impoverishment among adolescent girls in India and Niger: findings from a modelling study. BMJ Open (2016) 0.75
The Demographic Promise of Expanded Female Education: Trends in the Age at First Birth in Malawi. Popul Dev Rev (2015) 0.75
Social and economic determinants of pediatric health inequalities: the model of chronic kidney disease. Pediatr Res (2015) 0.75
Female disability disadvantage: a global perspective on sex differences in physical function and disability. Ageing Soc (2015) 0.75
Elizabeth Usher Memorial Lecture: Language is literacy is language - Positioning speech-language pathology in education policy, practice, paradigms and polemics. Int J Speech Lang Pathol (2016) 0.75
Association between depression in carers and malnutrition in children aged 6 months to 5 years. Afr J Prim Health Care Fam Med (2017) 0.75
Socioeconomic disparities in coverage of full immunisation among children of adolescent mothers in India, 1990-2006: a repeated cross-sectional analysis. BMJ Open (2016) 0.75
Epidemiology and risk factors for pneumonia severity and mortality in Bangladeshi children <5 years of age before 10-valent pneumococcal conjugate vaccine introduction. BMC Public Health (2016) 0.75
Geographical Inequalities and Social and Environmental Risk Factors for Under-Five Mortality in Ghana in 2000 and 2010: Bayesian Spatial Analysis of Census Data. PLoS Med (2016) 0.75
Neonatal, infant and under-five mortalities in Nigeria: An examination of trends and drivers (2003-2013). PLoS One (2017) 0.75
Childhood Illness and the Gender Gap in Adolescent Education in Low- and Middle-Income Countries. Pediatrics (2017) 0.75
Process Evaluation of a Clinical Trial to Test School Support as HIV Prevention Among Orphaned Adolescents in Western Kenya. Prev Sci (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
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
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
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
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
The state of US health, 1990-2010: burden of diseases, injuries, and risk factors. JAMA (2013) 10.43
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
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
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
Estimates of global and regional potential health gains from reducing multiple major risk factors. Lancet (2003) 5.26
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
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
Prevention of cardiovascular disease in high-risk individuals in low-income and middle-income countries: health effects and costs. Lancet (2007) 4.15
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
Improvement of child survival in Mexico: the diagonal approach. Lancet (2006) 3.87
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
Setting international standards for verbal autopsy. Bull World Health Organ (2007) 3.59
WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control: development of an evidence based global public health treaty. BMJ (2003) 3.42
Assessment of population-level effect of Avahan, an HIV-prevention initiative in India. Lancet (2011) 3.39
Assessing the effect of the 2001-06 Mexican health reform: an interim report card. Lancet (2006) 3.33
Net benefits: a multicountry analysis of observational data examining associations between insecticide-treated mosquito nets and health outcomes. PLoS Med (2011) 3.32
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
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
Benchmarking of performance of Mexican states with effective coverage. Lancet (2006) 3.06
The global burden of ischemic heart disease in 1990 and 2010: the Global Burden of Disease 2010 study. Circulation (2014) 2.99
Limitations of methods for measuring out-of-pocket and catastrophic private health expenditures. Bull World Health Organ (2009) 2.89
Are Americans feeling less healthy? The puzzle of trends in self-rated health. Am J Epidemiol (2009) 2.88
Distribution of major health risks: findings from the Global Burden of Disease study. PLoS Med (2004) 2.84
Access, utilization, quality, and effective coverage: an integrated conceptual framework and measurement strategy. Soc Sci Med (2005) 2.78
Absorptive capacity and disbursements by the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria: analysis of grant implementation. Lancet (2006) 2.67
Algorithms for enhancing public health utility of national causes-of-death data. Popul Health Metr (2010) 2.67
The burden of HIV: insights from the Global Burden of Disease Study 2010. AIDS (2013) 2.66
Temporal trends in ischemic heart disease mortality in 21 world regions, 1980 to 2010: the Global Burden of Disease 2010 study. Circulation (2014) 2.66
Trends and cardiovascular mortality effects of state-level blood pressure and uncontrolled hypertension in the United States. Circulation (2008) 2.65
Effectiveness of diabetes and hypertension management by rural primary health-care workers (Behvarz workers) in Iran: a nationally representative observational study. Lancet (2011) 2.61
Assessing the burden of disease in the United States using disability-adjusted life years. Am J Prev Med (2005) 2.40
Using verbal autopsy to measure causes of death: the comparative performance of existing methods. BMC Med (2014) 2.39
Effect of the Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunisation on diphtheria, tetanus, and pertussis vaccine coverage: an independent assessment. Lancet (2006) 2.35
Measuring adult mortality using sibling survival: a new analytical method and new results for 44 countries, 1974-2006. PLoS Med (2010) 2.32
The burden of disease and injury in the United States 1996. Popul Health Metr (2006) 2.27
Global health development assistance remained steady in 2013 but did not align with recipients' disease burden. Health Aff (Millwood) (2014) 2.26
The global financial crisis has led to a slowdown in growth of funding to improve health in many developing countries. Health Aff (Millwood) (2011) 2.21
Measuring under-five mortality: validation of new low-cost methods. PLoS Med (2010) 2.14
A multi-method approach to measuring health-state valuations. Health Econ (2004) 2.10
Should data from demographic surveillance systems be made more widely available to researchers? PLoS Med (2008) 2.06
Management of diabetes and associated cardiovascular risk factors in seven countries: a comparison of data from national health examination surveys. Bull World Health Organ (2010) 1.84
Prevalence, awareness, treatment, and control of hypertension in United States counties, 2001-2009. PLoS One (2013) 1.81
The promise of prevention: the effects of four preventable risk factors on national life expectancy and life expectancy disparities by race and county in the United States. PLoS Med (2010) 1.78
GBD 2010: a multi-investigator collaboration for global comparative descriptive epidemiology. Lancet (2012) 1.77
Has the DOTS strategy improved case finding or treatment success? An empirical assessment. PLoS One (2008) 1.74
Demographic and epidemiologic drivers of global cardiovascular mortality. N Engl J Med (2015) 1.70
Liver cirrhosis mortality in 187 countries between 1980 and 2010: a systematic analysis. BMC Med (2014) 1.66
Incorporating loss to follow-up in estimates of survival among HIV-infected individuals in sub-Saharan Africa enrolled in antiretroviral therapy programs. J Infect Dis (2012) 1.65
Fifty years of violent war deaths from Vietnam to Bosnia: analysis of data from the world health survey programme. BMJ (2008) 1.61
Impact of insurance and supply of health professionals on coverage of treatment for hypertension in Mexico: population based study. BMJ (2007) 1.60
Simplified Symptom Pattern Method for verbal autopsy analysis: multisite validation study using clinical diagnostic gold standards. Popul Health Metr (2011) 1.54
Improving the comparability of diabetes mortality statistics in the U.S. and Mexico. Diabetes Care (2007) 1.52
Estimates of global, regional, and national incidence, prevalence, and mortality of HIV, 1980-2015: the Global Burden of Disease Study 2015. Lancet HIV (2016) 1.51