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Title |
Journal |
Year |
PubWeight™‹?› |
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1
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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.
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Lancet
|
2012
|
56.72
|
|
2
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A comparative risk assessment of burden of disease and injury attributable to 67 risk factors and risk factor clusters in 21 regions, 1990-2010: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2010.
|
Lancet
|
2012
|
50.94
|
|
3
|
Global and regional burden of disease and risk factors, 2001: systematic analysis of population health data.
|
Lancet
|
2006
|
37.83
|
|
4
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Maternal mortality for 181 countries, 1980-2008: a systematic analysis of progress towards Millennium Development Goal 5.
|
Lancet
|
2010
|
33.69
|
|
5
|
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
|
|
6
|
Selected major risk factors and global and regional burden of disease.
|
Lancet
|
2002
|
24.47
|
|
7
|
Household catastrophic health expenditure: a multicountry analysis.
|
Lancet
|
2003
|
20.07
|
|
8
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Global burden of disease attributable to mental and substance use disorders: findings from the Global Burden of Disease Study 2010.
|
Lancet
|
2013
|
16.76
|
|
9
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Progress towards Millennium Development Goals 4 and 5 on maternal and child mortality: an updated systematic analysis.
|
Lancet
|
2011
|
14.16
|
|
10
|
Financing of global health: tracking development assistance for health from 1990 to 2007.
|
Lancet
|
2009
|
13.41
|
|
11
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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
|
|
12
|
The preventable causes of death in the United States: comparative risk assessment of dietary, lifestyle, and metabolic risk factors.
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PLoS Med
|
2009
|
12.13
|
|
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
|
|
14
|
Public financing of health in developing countries: a cross-national systematic analysis.
|
Lancet
|
2010
|
11.22
|
|
15
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Healthy life expectancy for 187 countries, 1990-2010: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden Disease Study 2010.
|
Lancet
|
2012
|
8.22
|
|
16
|
Breast and cervical cancer in 187 countries between 1980 and 2010: a systematic analysis.
|
Lancet
|
2011
|
7.71
|
|
17
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Rapid health transition in China, 1990-2010: findings from the Global Burden of Disease Study 2010.
|
Lancet
|
2013
|
7.70
|
|
18
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Age-specific and sex-specific mortality in 187 countries, 1970-2010: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2010.
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Lancet
|
2012
|
7.62
|
|
19
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Tracking progress towards universal childhood immunisation and the impact of global initiatives: a systematic analysis of three-dose diphtheria, tetanus, and pertussis immunisation coverage.
|
Lancet
|
2008
|
6.70
|
|
20
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Causes of cancer in the world: comparative risk assessment of nine behavioural and environmental risk factors.
|
Lancet
|
2005
|
6.63
|
|
21
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Global, regional, and national disability-adjusted life years (DALYs) for 306 diseases and injuries and healthy life expectancy (HALE) for 188 countries, 1990-2013: quantifying the epidemiological transition.
|
Lancet
|
2015
|
6.13
|
|
22
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Trends in national and state-level obesity in the USA after correction for self-report bias: analysis of health surveys.
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J R Soc Med
|
2006
|
6.11
|
|
23
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Burden of depressive disorders by country, sex, age, and year: findings from the global burden of disease study 2010.
|
PLoS Med
|
2013
|
6.04
|
|
24
|
Increased educational attainment and its effect on child mortality in 175 countries between 1970 and 2009: a systematic analysis.
|
Lancet
|
2010
|
5.36
|
|
25
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Estimates of global and regional potential health gains from reducing multiple major risk factors.
|
Lancet
|
2003
|
5.26
|
|
26
|
Rethinking the "diseases of affluence" paradigm: global patterns of nutritional risks in relation to economic development.
|
PLoS Med
|
2005
|
4.64
|
|
27
|
Worldwide epidemiology of atrial fibrillation: a Global Burden of Disease 2010 Study.
|
Circulation
|
2013
|
4.60
|
|
28
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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
|
|
29
|
Comparability of self rated health: cross sectional multi-country survey using anchoring vignettes.
|
BMJ
|
2004
|
3.94
|
|
30
|
A systematic analysis of global anemia burden from 1990 to 2010.
|
Blood
|
2013
|
3.94
|
|
31
|
Health Effects of Overweight and Obesity in 195 Countries over 25 Years.
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N Engl J Med
|
2017
|
3.90
|
|
32
|
Worldwide mortality in men and women aged 15-59 years from 1970 to 2010: a systematic analysis.
|
Lancet
|
2010
|
3.89
|
|
33
|
The reversal of fortunes: trends in county mortality and cross-county mortality disparities in the United States.
|
PLoS Med
|
2008
|
3.73
|
|
34
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Global burden of disease attributable to illicit drug use and dependence: findings from the Global Burden of Disease Study 2010.
|
Lancet
|
2013
|
3.65
|
|
35
|
Setting international standards for verbal autopsy.
|
Bull World Health Organ
|
2007
|
3.59
|
|
36
|
WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control: development of an evidence based global public health treaty.
|
BMJ
|
2003
|
3.42
|
|
37
|
Assessment of population-level effect of Avahan, an HIV-prevention initiative in India.
|
Lancet
|
2011
|
3.39
|
|
38
|
Assessing the effect of the 2001-06 Mexican health reform: an interim report card.
|
Lancet
|
2006
|
3.33
|
|
39
|
Net benefits: a multicountry analysis of observational data examining associations between insecticide-treated mosquito nets and health outcomes.
|
PLoS Med
|
2011
|
3.32
|
|
40
|
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
|
|
41
|
Benchmarking of performance of Mexican states with effective coverage.
|
Lancet
|
2006
|
3.06
|
|
42
|
The global burden of ischemic heart disease in 1990 and 2010: the Global Burden of Disease 2010 study.
|
Circulation
|
2014
|
2.99
|
|
43
|
Limitations of methods for measuring out-of-pocket and catastrophic private health expenditures.
|
Bull World Health Organ
|
2009
|
2.89
|
|
44
|
Are Americans feeling less healthy? The puzzle of trends in self-rated health.
|
Am J Epidemiol
|
2009
|
2.88
|
|
45
|
Distribution of major health risks: findings from the Global Burden of Disease study.
|
PLoS Med
|
2004
|
2.84
|
|
46
|
Access, utilization, quality, and effective coverage: an integrated conceptual framework and measurement strategy.
|
Soc Sci Med
|
2005
|
2.78
|
|
47
|
Absorptive capacity and disbursements by the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria: analysis of grant implementation.
|
Lancet
|
2006
|
2.67
|
|
48
|
The burden of HIV: insights from the Global Burden of Disease Study 2010.
|
AIDS
|
2013
|
2.66
|
|
49
|
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
|
|
50
|
Trends and cardiovascular mortality effects of state-level blood pressure and uncontrolled hypertension in the United States.
|
Circulation
|
2008
|
2.65
|
|
51
|
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
|
|
52
|
Assessing the burden of disease in the United States using disability-adjusted life years.
|
Am J Prev Med
|
2005
|
2.40
|
|
53
|
Effect of the Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunisation on diphtheria, tetanus, and pertussis vaccine coverage: an independent assessment.
|
Lancet
|
2006
|
2.35
|
|
54
|
Measuring adult mortality using sibling survival: a new analytical method and new results for 44 countries, 1974-2006.
|
PLoS Med
|
2010
|
2.32
|
|
55
|
The burden of disease and injury in the United States 1996.
|
Popul Health Metr
|
2006
|
2.27
|
|
56
|
Global health development assistance remained steady in 2013 but did not align with recipients' disease burden.
|
Health Aff (Millwood)
|
2014
|
2.26
|
|
57
|
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
|
|
58
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Rapid scaling up of insecticide-treated bed net coverage in Africa and its relationship with development assistance for health: a systematic synthesis of supply, distribution, and household survey data.
|
PLoS Med
|
2010
|
2.15
|
|
59
|
Measuring under-five mortality: validation of new low-cost methods.
|
PLoS Med
|
2010
|
2.14
|
|
60
|
A multi-method approach to measuring health-state valuations.
|
Health Econ
|
2004
|
2.10
|
|
61
|
Should data from demographic surveillance systems be made more widely available to researchers?
|
PLoS Med
|
2008
|
2.06
|
|
62
|
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
|
|
63
|
Prevalence, awareness, treatment, and control of hypertension in United States counties, 2001-2009.
|
PLoS One
|
2013
|
1.81
|
|
64
|
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
|
|
65
|
Has the DOTS strategy improved case finding or treatment success? An empirical assessment.
|
PLoS One
|
2008
|
1.74
|
|
66
|
Demographic and epidemiologic drivers of global cardiovascular mortality.
|
N Engl J Med
|
2015
|
1.70
|
|
67
|
Liver cirrhosis mortality in 187 countries between 1980 and 2010: a systematic analysis.
|
BMC Med
|
2014
|
1.66
|
|
68
|
Incorporating loss to follow-up in estimates of survival among HIV-infected individuals in sub-Saharan Africa enrolled in antiretroviral therapy programs.
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J Infect Dis
|
2012
|
1.65
|
|
69
|
Fifty years of violent war deaths from Vietnam to Bosnia: analysis of data from the world health survey programme.
|
BMJ
|
2008
|
1.61
|
|
70
|
Impact of insurance and supply of health professionals on coverage of treatment for hypertension in Mexico: population based study.
|
BMJ
|
2007
|
1.60
|
|
71
|
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
|
|
72
|
Understanding the decline of mean systolic blood pressure in Japan: an analysis of pooled data from the National Nutrition Survey, 1986-2002.
|
Bull World Health Organ
|
2008
|
1.43
|
|
73
|
Global and regional estimates of cancer mortality and incidence by site: I. Application of regional cancer survival model to estimate cancer mortality distribution by site.
|
BMC Cancer
|
2002
|
1.31
|
|
74
|
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
|
|
75
|
The global burden of conduct disorder and attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder in 2010.
|
J Child Psychol Psychiatry
|
2014
|
1.24
|
|
76
|
Global patterns of healthy life expectancy in the year 2002.
|
BMC Public Health
|
2004
|
1.09
|
|
77
|
Altitude, life expectancy and mortality from ischaemic heart disease, stroke, COPD and cancers: national population-based analysis of US counties.
|
J Epidemiol Community Health
|
2011
|
1.08
|
|
78
|
Update on the Global Burden of Ischemic and Hemorrhagic Stroke in 1990-2013: The GBD 2013 Study.
|
Neuroepidemiology
|
2015
|
1.04
|
|
79
|
Quantification of health states with rank-based nonmetric multidimensional scaling.
|
Med Decis Making
|
2007
|
1.04
|
|
80
|
Sex Differences in Stroke Incidence, Prevalence, Mortality and Disability-Adjusted Life Years: Results from the Global Burden of Disease Study 2013.
|
Neuroepidemiology
|
2015
|
1.02
|
|
81
|
Atlas of the Global Burden of Stroke (1990-2013): The GBD 2013 Study.
|
Neuroepidemiology
|
2015
|
0.99
|
|
82
|
Methods for Estimating the Global Burden of Cerebrovascular Diseases.
|
Neuroepidemiology
|
2015
|
0.96
|
|
83
|
Variations in ischemic heart disease burden by age, country, and income: the Global Burden of Diseases, Injuries, and Risk Factors 2010 study.
|
Glob Heart
|
2014
|
0.95
|
|
84
|
Stroke Prevalence, Mortality and Disability-Adjusted Life Years in Adults Aged 20-64 Years in 1990-2013: Data from the Global Burden of Disease 2013 Study.
|
Neuroepidemiology
|
2015
|
0.94
|
|
85
|
Drinking Patterns in US Counties From 2002 to 2012.
|
Am J Public Health
|
2015
|
0.93
|
|
86
|
Disability weights for vision disorders in Global Burden of Disease study - Authors' reply.
|
Lancet
|
2012
|
0.93
|
|
87
|
Tracking development assistance for HIV/AIDS: the international response to a global epidemic.
|
AIDS
|
2016
|
0.91
|
|
88
|
The Global Burden of Disease Study 2010 does not show a rise in the age-standardized mortality rate for cardiovascular disease in sub-Saharan Africa.
|
Prog Cardiovasc Dis
|
2013
|
0.90
|
|
89
|
Mortality from HIV in the Global Burden of Disease study - authors' reply.
|
Lancet
|
2013
|
0.89
|
|
90
|
Global patterns of healthy life expectancy for older women.
|
J Women Aging
|
2002
|
0.89
|
|
91
|
World health system performance revisited: the impact of varying the relative importance of health system goals.
|
BMC Health Serv Res
|
2004
|
0.88
|
|
92
|
Stroke Prevalence, Mortality and Disability-Adjusted Life Years in Children and Youth Aged 0-19 Years: Data from the Global and Regional Burden of Stroke 2013.
|
Neuroepidemiology
|
2015
|
0.88
|
|
93
|
Tracking population health based on self-reported impairments: Trends in the prevalence of hearing loss in US adults, 1976-2006.
|
Am J Epidemiol
|
2009
|
0.88
|
|
94
|
Impact of supplemental immunisation activity (SIA) campaigns on health systems: findings from South Africa.
|
J Epidemiol Community Health
|
2013
|
0.87
|
|
95
|
The Heart of 25 by 25: Achieving the Goal of Reducing Global and Regional Premature Deaths From Cardiovascular Diseases and Stroke: A Modeling Study From the American Heart Association and World Heart Federation.
|
Circulation
|
2016
|
0.87
|
|
96
|
[Benchmarking of performance of Mexican states with effective coverage].
|
Salud Publica Mex
|
2007
|
0.84
|
|
97
|
Disentangling the effects of risk factors and clinical care on subnational variation in early neonatal mortality in the United States.
|
PLoS One
|
2012
|
0.83
|
|
98
|
Supplementary immunization activities (SIAs) in South Africa: comprehensive economic evaluation of an integrated child health delivery platform.
|
Glob Health Action
|
2013
|
0.83
|
|
99
|
Who assessment of health systems performance.
|
Lancet
|
2003
|
0.80
|
|
100
|
Aspirin use and knowledge in the community: a population- and health facility based survey for measuring local health system performance.
|
BMC Cardiovasc Disord
|
2014
|
0.79
|
|
101
|
Commentary: improving the mental health and substance use estimates in the Global Burden of Disease study: strengthening the evidence base for public policy.
|
Int J Epidemiol
|
2014
|
0.78
|
|
102
|
Epidemiological evidence: improving validity through consistency analysis.
|
Bull World Health Organ
|
2002
|
0.78
|
|
103
|
Progress and challenges in the fight against smoking and cardiovascular disease.
|
Eur Heart J
|
2014
|
0.78
|
|
104
|
Annual deaths attributable to physical inactivity: whither the missing 2 million? - Authors' reply.
|
Lancet
|
2013
|
0.76
|
|
105
|
Correction: Efficiency of Health Care Production in Low-Resource Settings: A Monte-Carlo Simulation to Compare the Performance of Data Envelopment Analysis, Stochastic Distance Functions, and an Ensemble Model.
|
PLoS One
|
2016
|
0.75
|
|
106
|
Correction: Guidelines for Accurate and Transparent Health Estimates Reporting: the GATHER statement.
|
PLoS Med
|
2016
|
0.75
|
|
107
|
Alcohol-related road traffic injury and Global Burden of Disease 2010 - Authors' reply.
|
Lancet
|
2013
|
0.75
|
|
108
|
Validating estimates of prevalence of non-communicable diseases based on household surveys: the symptomatic diagnosis study.
|
BMC Med
|
2015
|
0.75
|
|
109
|
Life expectancy in Seychelles - authors' reply.
|
Lancet
|
2013
|
0.75
|
|
110
|
Improving the quality of road injury statistics by using regression models to redistribute ill-defined events.
|
Inj Prev
|
2012
|
0.75
|
|
111
|
[Assessing the effect of the 2001-06 Mexican health reform: an interim report card].
|
Salud Publica Mex
|
2007
|
0.75
|
|
112
|
The Heart of 25 by 25: Achieving the Goal of Reducing Global and Regional Premature Deaths From Cardiovascular Diseases and Stroke: A Modeling Study From the American Heart Association and World Heart Federation.
|
Glob Heart
|
2016
|
0.75
|