Published in Popul Health Metr on June 15, 2011
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Fostering Social Determinants of Health Transdisciplinary Research: The Collaborative Research Center for American Indian Health. Int J Environ Res Public Health (2015) 0.80
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Persistent socioeconomic disparities in infant, neonatal, and postneonatal mortality rates in the United States, 1969-2001. Pediatrics (2007) 1.89
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Toward a comparison of survival in American and European cancer patients. Cancer (2000) 1.63
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Widening socioeconomic disparities in US childhood mortality, 1969 2000. Am J Public Health (2007) 1.37
Life expectancy in four U.S. racial/ethnic populations: 1990. Epidemiology (1995) 1.35
Projecting SEER cancer survival rates to the US: an ecological regression approach. Cancer Causes Control (2002) 1.12
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Maternal and child undernutrition and overweight in low-income and middle-income countries. Lancet (2013) 18.02
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Global and regional burden of stroke during 1990-2010: findings from the Global Burden of Disease Study 2010. Lancet (2014) 10.06
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GBD 2010: design, definitions, and metrics. Lancet (2012) 8.64
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What has made the population of Japan healthy? Lancet (2011) 8.18
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Chronic disease prevention: health effects and financial costs of strategies to reduce salt intake and control tobacco use. Lancet (2007) 6.45
UK health performance: findings of the Global Burden of Disease Study 2010. Lancet (2013) 6.11
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Major risk factors for stillbirth in high-income countries: a systematic review and meta-analysis. Lancet (2011) 5.13
Measuring the burden of neglected tropical diseases: the global burden of disease framework. PLoS Negl Trop Dis (2007) 4.87
Stillbirths: the way forward in high-income countries. Lancet (2011) 4.69
Worldwide epidemiology of atrial fibrillation: a Global Burden of Disease 2010 Study. Circulation (2013) 4.60
Tobacco smoke, indoor air pollution and tuberculosis: a systematic review and meta-analysis. PLoS Med (2007) 4.51
Exposure assessment for estimation of the global burden of disease attributable to outdoor air pollution. Environ Sci Technol (2012) 4.44
Trends in adult body-mass index in 200 countries from 1975 to 2014: a pooled analysis of 1698 population-based measurement studies with 19·2 million participants. Lancet (2016) 4.29
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
Inequalities in non-communicable diseases and effective responses. Lancet (2013) 4.18
National, regional, and global trends in adult overweight and obesity prevalences. Popul Health Metr (2012) 4.13
Effect of air pollution control on life expectancy in the United States: an analysis of 545 U.S. counties for the period from 2000 to 2007. Epidemiology (2013) 3.93
Worldwide mortality in men and women aged 15-59 years from 1970 to 2010: a systematic analysis. Lancet (2010) 3.89
An integrated risk function for estimating the global burden of disease attributable to ambient fine particulate matter exposure. Environ Health Perspect (2014) 3.69
Anaemia, prenatal iron use, and risk of adverse pregnancy outcomes: systematic review and meta-analysis. BMJ (2013) 3.67
Assessment of population-level effect of Avahan, an HIV-prevention initiative in India. Lancet (2011) 3.39
Modeling causes of death: an integrated approach using CODEm. Popul Health Metr (2012) 3.12
The global burden of ischemic heart disease in 1990 and 2010: the Global Burden of Disease 2010 study. Circulation (2014) 2.99
Association between tobacco smoking and active tuberculosis in Taiwan: prospective cohort study. Am J Respir Crit Care Med (2009) 2.95
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
Biomass fuels and respiratory diseases: a review of the evidence. Proc Am Thorac Soc (2008) 2.78
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
Global burden of disease 2005: call for collaborators. Lancet (2007) 2.64
Performance of physician-certified verbal autopsies: multisite validation study using clinical diagnostic gold standards. Popul Health Metr (2011) 2.62
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
Measuring progress on NCDs: one goal and five targets. Lancet (2012) 2.55
Improving child survival through environmental and nutritional interventions: the importance of targeting interventions toward the poor. JAMA (2007) 2.41
Global, regional and national sodium intakes in 1990 and 2010: a systematic analysis of 24 h urinary sodium excretion and dietary surveys worldwide. BMJ Open (2013) 2.40
Environmental health in China: progress towards clean air and safe water. Lancet (2010) 2.32
Performance of the Tariff Method: validation of a simple additive algorithm for analysis of verbal autopsies. Popul Health Metr (2011) 2.32
The global cardiovascular risk transition: associations of four metabolic risk factors with national income, urbanization, and Western diet in 1980 and 2008. Circulation (2013) 2.31
The burden of disease and injury in the United States 1996. Popul Health Metr (2006) 2.27
Effects of smoking and solid-fuel use on COPD, lung cancer, and tuberculosis in China: a time-based, multiple risk factor, modelling study. Lancet (2008) 2.27
Indoor air pollution and blood pressure in adult women living in rural China. Environ Health Perspect (2011) 2.25
Understanding the coronary heart disease versus total cardiovascular mortality paradox: a method to enhance the comparability of cardiovascular death statistics in the United States. Circulation (2006) 2.20
Mortality and greenhouse gas impacts of biomass and petroleum energy futures in Africa. Science (2005) 2.18
Random forests for verbal autopsy analysis: multisite validation study using clinical diagnostic gold standards. Popul Health Metr (2011) 2.18
Eight Americas: new perspectives on U.S. health disparities. Am J Prev Med (2005) 2.13
Performance of InterVA for assigning causes of death to verbal autopsies: multisite validation study using clinical diagnostic gold standards. Popul Health Metr (2011) 2.06
Health impacts of macroeconomic crises and policies: determinants of variation in childhood malnutrition trends in Cameroon. Int J Epidemiol (2006) 2.02
The age-specific quantitative effects of metabolic risk factors on cardiovascular diseases and diabetes: a pooled analysis. PLoS One (2013) 1.95
Developing a comprehensive time series of GDP per capita for 210 countries from 1950 to 2015. Popul Health Metr (2012) 1.95
Mortality in Iraq associated with the 2003-2011 war and occupation: findings from a national cluster sample survey by the university collaborative Iraq Mortality Study. PLoS Med (2013) 1.86
National and subnational mortality effects of metabolic risk factors and smoking in Iran: a comparative risk assessment. Popul Health Metr (2011) 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
Household and community socioeconomic and environmental determinants of child nutritional status in Cameroon. BMC Public Health (2006) 1.75
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
Adult mortality attributable to preventable risk factors for non-communicable diseases and injuries in Japan: a comparative risk assessment. PLoS Med (2012) 1.70
Adhesion of Streptococcus pneumoniae to human airway epithelial cells exposed to urban particulate matter. J Allergy Clin Immunol (2011) 1.60
Diabetes prevalence and diagnosis in US states: analysis of health surveys. Popul Health Metr (2009) 1.59
Chemical Composition of Fine Particulate Matter and Life Expectancy: In 95 US Counties Between 2002 and 2007. Epidemiology (2015) 1.58
Trends and inequalities in cardiovascular disease mortality across 7932 English electoral wards, 1982-2006: Bayesian spatial analysis. Int J Epidemiol (2012) 1.55
Direct estimation of cause-specific mortality fractions from verbal autopsies: multisite validation study using clinical diagnostic gold standards. Popul Health Metr (2011) 1.53
Cigarette smoking prevalence in US counties: 1996-2012. Popul Health Metr (2014) 1.53
Improving the comparability of diabetes mortality statistics in the U.S. and Mexico. Diabetes Care (2007) 1.52
Mediators of the effect of body mass index on coronary heart disease: decomposing direct and indirect effects. Epidemiology (2015) 1.50
Priority setting for health interventions in Mexico's System of Social Protection in Health. Lancet (2006) 1.49
Comparative impact assessment of child pneumonia interventions. Bull World Health Organ (2009) 1.49
How many deaths are attributable to smoking in the United States? Comparison of methods for estimating smoking-attributable mortality when smoking prevalence changes. Prev Med (2011) 1.47
The effect of multiple anthropometric deficits on child mortality: meta-analysis of individual data in 10 prospective studies from developing countries. Am J Clin Nutr (2013) 1.45
Improving the public health utility of global cardiovascular mortality data: the rise of ischemic heart disease. Popul Health Metr (2011) 1.43
Left behind: widening disparities for males and females in US county life expectancy, 1985-2010. Popul Health Metr (2013) 1.39
Household and community poverty, biomass use, and air pollution in Accra, Ghana. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A (2011) 1.37
Exposing misclassified HIV/AIDS deaths in South Africa. Bull World Health Organ (2011) 1.31
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
Within-neighborhood patterns and sources of particle pollution: mobile monitoring and geographic information system analysis in four communities in Accra, Ghana. Environ Health Perspect (2010) 1.26