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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.
|
Lancet
|
2012
|
56.72
|
|
2
|
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
|
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
|
|
4
|
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
|
|
5
|
WHO estimates of the causes of death in children.
|
Lancet
|
2005
|
18.33
|
|
6
|
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
|
|
7
|
The state of US health, 1990-2010: burden of diseases, injuries, and risk factors.
|
JAMA
|
2013
|
10.43
|
|
8
|
50 years of pursuing a healthy society in Japan.
|
Lancet
|
2011
|
9.40
|
|
9
|
GBD 2010: design, definitions, and metrics.
|
Lancet
|
2012
|
8.64
|
|
10
|
What has made the population of Japan healthy?
|
Lancet
|
2011
|
8.18
|
|
11
|
Global, regional, and national comparative risk assessment of 79 behavioural, environmental and occupational, and metabolic risks or clusters of risks in 188 countries, 1990-2013: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2013.
|
Lancet
|
2015
|
7.99
|
|
12
|
Can we achieve Millennium Development Goal 4? New analysis of country trends and forecasts of under-5 mortality to 2015.
|
Lancet
|
2007
|
6.72
|
|
13
|
Verbal autopsy: current practices and challenges.
|
Bull World Health Organ
|
2006
|
6.66
|
|
14
|
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
|
|
15
|
UK health performance: findings of the Global Burden of Disease Study 2010.
|
Lancet
|
2013
|
6.11
|
|
16
|
Civil registration systems and vital statistics: successes and missed opportunities.
|
Lancet
|
2007
|
5.67
|
|
17
|
Estimating child mortality due to diarrhoea in developing countries.
|
Bull World Health Organ
|
2008
|
5.59
|
|
18
|
No cry at birth: global estimates of intrapartum stillbirths and intrapartum-related neonatal deaths.
|
Bull World Health Organ
|
2005
|
4.49
|
|
19
|
Japanese universal health coverage: evolution, achievements, and challenges.
|
Lancet
|
2011
|
4.07
|
|
20
|
Global mortality associated with rotavirus disease among children in 2004.
|
J Infect Dis
|
2009
|
3.63
|
|
21
|
Setting international standards for verbal autopsy.
|
Bull World Health Organ
|
2007
|
3.59
|
|
22
|
The way forward.
|
Lancet
|
2007
|
3.28
|
|
23
|
Population ageing and wellbeing: lessons from Japan's long-term care insurance policy.
|
Lancet
|
2011
|
3.15
|
|
24
|
Macrosomia in 23 developing countries: an analysis of a multicountry, facility-based, cross-sectional survey.
|
Lancet
|
2013
|
2.89
|
|
25
|
Cost containment and quality of care in Japan: is there a trade-off?
|
Lancet
|
2011
|
2.87
|
|
26
|
Interim measures for meeting needs for health sector data: births, deaths, and causes of death.
|
Lancet
|
2007
|
2.71
|
|
27
|
Global burden of disease 2005: call for collaborators.
|
Lancet
|
2007
|
2.64
|
|
28
|
Viewpoint: evaluating the impact of malaria control efforts on mortality in sub-Saharan Africa.
|
Trop Med Int Health
|
2007
|
2.36
|
|
29
|
Should data from demographic surveillance systems be made more widely available to researchers?
|
PLoS Med
|
2008
|
2.06
|
|
30
|
Survey of non-prescribed use of antibiotics for children in an urban community in Mongolia.
|
Bull World Health Organ
|
2010
|
1.88
|
|
31
|
GBD 2010: a multi-investigator collaboration for global comparative descriptive epidemiology.
|
Lancet
|
2012
|
1.77
|
|
32
|
Adult mortality attributable to preventable risk factors for non-communicable diseases and injuries in Japan: a comparative risk assessment.
|
PLoS Med
|
2012
|
1.70
|
|
33
|
Designing verbal autopsy studies.
|
Popul Health Metr
|
2010
|
1.64
|
|
34
|
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
|
|
35
|
Assessment of the risk of medium-term internal contamination in Minamisoma City, Fukushima, Japan, after the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear accident.
|
Environ Health Perspect
|
2014
|
1.41
|
|
36
|
Trends in cause specific mortality across occupations in Japanese men of working age during period of economic stagnation, 1980-2005: retrospective cohort study.
|
BMJ
|
2012
|
1.39
|
|
37
|
Keeping count: births, deaths, and causes of death.
|
Lancet
|
2007
|
1.36
|
|
38
|
Acute intake of radionuclides immediately after the incident as the main contributor of the internal radiation exposure after Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster.
|
JAMA Pediatr
|
2013
|
1.32
|
|
39
|
Behavioral interventions to reduce the transmission of HIV infection among sex workers and their clients in low- and middle-income countries.
|
Cochrane Database Syst Rev
|
2012
|
1.32
|
|
40
|
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
|
|
41
|
Health statistics: time to get serious.
|
Bull World Health Organ
|
2005
|
1.28
|
|
42
|
Mortality risk amongst nursing home residents evacuated after the Fukushima nuclear accident: a retrospective cohort study.
|
PLoS One
|
2013
|
1.28
|
|
43
|
Maternal body mass index and gestational weight gain and their association with perinatal outcomes in Viet Nam.
|
Bull World Health Organ
|
2010
|
1.26
|
|
44
|
Comparative cost-effectiveness of policy instruments for reducing the global burden of alcohol, tobacco and illicit drug use.
|
Drug Alcohol Rev
|
2006
|
1.21
|
|
45
|
HPV vaccination programme in Japan.
|
Lancet
|
2013
|
1.16
|
|
46
|
Health-related financial catastrophe, inequality and chronic illness in Bangladesh.
|
PLoS One
|
2013
|
1.12
|
|
47
|
The importance of alcoholic beverage type for suicide in Japan: a time-series analysis, 1963-2007.
|
Drug Alcohol Rev
|
2011
|
1.12
|
|
48
|
Needlestick and sharps injuries among health care workers at public tertiary hospitals in an urban community in Mongolia.
|
BMC Res Notes
|
2011
|
1.08
|
|
49
|
Determinants of reduced child stunting in Cambodia: analysis of pooled data from three demographic and health surveys.
|
Bull World Health Organ
|
2013
|
1.07
|
|
50
|
Tracking China's health reform.
|
Lancet
|
2010
|
1.07
|
|
51
|
The Future of Japan's Health System--Sustaining Good Health with Equity at Low Cost.
|
N Engl J Med
|
2015
|
1.05
|
|
52
|
Deaths from heart failure: using coarsened exact matching to correct cause-of-death statistics.
|
Popul Health Metr
|
2010
|
0.99
|
|
53
|
Ethical issues in the application of verbal autopsies in mortality surveillance systems.
|
Trop Med Int Health
|
2005
|
0.98
|
|
54
|
What do we really know about adult mortality worldwide?
|
Lancet
|
2010
|
0.97
|
|
55
|
Re-invigorating Japan's commitment to global health: challenges and opportunities.
|
Lancet
|
2011
|
0.96
|
|
56
|
Malaria risk: estimating clinical episodes of malaria.
|
Nature
|
2005
|
0.95
|
|
57
|
Geographic information system (GIS) maps and malaria control monitoring: intervention coverage and health outcome in distal villages of Khammouane province, Laos.
|
Malar J
|
2009
|
0.95
|
|
58
|
The epidemiological impact and cost-effectiveness of HIV testing, antiretroviral treatment and harm reduction programs.
|
AIDS
|
2012
|
0.95
|
|
59
|
Vaccination for whom? Time to reinvigorate Japanese vaccine policy.
|
Lancet
|
2012
|
0.91
|
|
60
|
Projecting HIV transmission in Japan.
|
PLoS One
|
2012
|
0.91
|
|
61
|
Verbal autopsy: advancing science, facilitating application.
|
Popul Health Metr
|
2011
|
0.89
|
|
62
|
Self-reported illness and household strategies for coping with health-care payments in Bangladesh.
|
Bull World Health Organ
|
2013
|
0.88
|
|
63
|
Structural and community-level interventions for increasing condom use to prevent the transmission of HIV and other sexually transmitted infections.
|
Cochrane Database Syst Rev
|
2014
|
0.88
|
|
64
|
Cash-transfer programmes in developing countries.
|
Lancet
|
2013
|
0.87
|
|
65
|
Behavioral interventions to reduce the transmission of HIV infection among sex workers and their clients in high-income countries.
|
Cochrane Database Syst Rev
|
2011
|
0.86
|
|
66
|
Measurement of internal radiation exposure among decontamination workers in villages near the crippled Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant.
|
Health Phys
|
2013
|
0.84
|
|
67
|
Achieving MDG 4 in sub-Saharan Africa: what has contributed to the accelerated child mortality decline in Ghana?
|
PLoS One
|
2011
|
0.83
|
|
68
|
Improving population health measurement in national household surveys: a simulation study of the sample design of the comprehensive survey of living conditions of the people on health and welfare in Japan.
|
J Epidemiol
|
2011
|
0.83
|
|
69
|
Duration of maternally derived antibody against measles: a seroepidemiological study of infants aged under 8 months in Qinghai, China.
|
Vaccine
|
2011
|
0.83
|
|
70
|
Research misconduct and scientific integrity: a call for a global forum.
|
Lancet
|
2013
|
0.83
|
|
71
|
Out-of-pocket medical expenses for inpatient care among beneficiaries of the National Health Insurance Program in the Philippines.
|
Health Policy Plan
|
2012
|
0.83
|
|
72
|
Prevalence and control of hypertension in Bangladesh: a multilevel analysis of a nationwide population-based survey.
|
J Hypertens
|
2015
|
0.82
|
|
73
|
Development of a disaster cardiovascular prevention network.
|
Lancet
|
2011
|
0.82
|
|
74
|
Cost-effectiveness analysis of a national neonatal hearing screening program in China: conditions for the scale-up.
|
PLoS One
|
2013
|
0.81
|
|
75
|
Vaccine-associated paralytic poliomyelitis in Japan.
|
Lancet
|
2012
|
0.79
|
|
76
|
Measuring progress towards reducing health inequalities.
|
Bull World Health Organ
|
2005
|
0.77
|
|
77
|
Diseases Burden of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) Attributable to Ground-Level Ozone in Thailand: Estimates Based on Surface Monitoring Measurements Data.
|
Glob J Health Sci
|
2015
|
0.77
|
|
78
|
Measles elimination: lack of progress in the Western Pacific Region.
|
Lancet
|
2009
|
0.76
|
|
79
|
Social networks and mental health in post-conflict Mitrovica, Kosova.
|
BMC Public Health
|
2014
|
0.75
|
|
80
|
Decide monitoring strategies before setting targets.
|
Bull World Health Organ
|
2007
|
0.75
|
|
81
|
The 7th Asia Cancer Forum: from the perspective of human security, how can we collaborate as Asians in order to place cancer on the global health agenda? How can we fill in the gaps that exist among us?
|
Jpn J Clin Oncol
|
2011
|
0.75
|
|
82
|
The eighth Asia cancer forum: seeking to advance the outcomes of the UN summit: 'global health as the key to a new paradigm in cancer research'.
|
Jpn J Clin Oncol
|
2012
|
0.75
|