Christopher J L Murray, Ryan M Barber, Kyle J Foreman, Ayşe Abbasoğlu Özgören et al.
Background The Global Burden of Disease Study 2013 (GBD 2013) aims to bring together all available epidemiological data using a coherent measurement framework, standardised estimation methods, and transparent data sources to enable comparisons of health loss over time and across causes, age–sex grou...
Christopher J L Murray, Cristiana Abbafati, Kaja Abbas, Mohammad Hossein Abbasi et al.
The Global Burden of Diseases, Injuries, and Risk Factors Study (GBD) 2019 provides a rules-based synthesis of the available evidence on levels and trends in health outcomes, a diverse set of risk factors, and health system responses. GBD 2019 covered 204 countries and territories, as well as first ...
Shanthi Mendis
OBJECTIVE: To assess the availability and affordability of medicines used to treat cardiovascular disease, diabetes, chronic respiratory disease and glaucoma and to provide palliative cancer care in six low- and middle-income countries. METHODS: A survey of the availability and price of 32 medicines...
Clara K Chow, Chinthanie Ramasundarahettige, Weihong Hu, Khalid F. AlHabib et al.
BACKGROUND Data are scarce on the availability and affordability of essential medicines for diabetes. Our aim was to examine the availability and affordability of metformin, sulfonylureas, and insulin across multiple regions of the world and explore the effect of these on medicine use. METHODS In th...
Linda P.T. Joosten, Sander van Doorn, Peter M. van de Ven, B T G Kohlen et al.
BACKGROUND: There is ambiguity whether frail patients with atrial fibrillation managed with vitamin K antagonists (VKAs) should be switched to a non-vitamin K oral anticoagulant (NOAC). METHODS: or with valvular atrial fibrillation were excluded. Follow-up was 12 months. The cause-specific hazard ra...
Sayem Ahmed, Mohammad Enamul Hoque, Abdur Razzaque Sarker, Marufa Sultana et al.
INTRODUCTION: Reliance on out-of-pocket payment for healthcare may lead poor households to undertake catastrophic health expenditure, and risk-pooling mechanisms have been recommended to mitigate such burdens for households in Bangladesh. About 88% of the population of Bangladesh depends on work in ...
William Checkley, Hassen Ghannem, Vilma Irazola, Sylvester Kimaiyo et al.
Noncommunicable disease (NCD), comprising cardiovascular disease, stroke, diabetes, and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, are increasing in incidence rapidly in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). Some patients have access to the same treatments available in high-income countries, but mos...
N. Jokhadze, Arunangshu Das, Don S. Dizon
The 2022 update on cancer statistics provides a staggering figure: 20 million will receive a new diagnosis of cancer, and nearly 10 million will die. The data are derived from estimates provided by the Global Cancer Observatory, which relies on the best available sources of both incidence and mortal...
Carlos H. Barrios, Gilberto Lopes, Mastura Md Yusof, Fidel Rubagumya et al.
In the past decade, oncologists worldwide have seen unprecedented advances in drug development and approvals but have also become increasingly cognizant of the rising costs of and increasing inequities in access to these therapies. These trends have resulted in the current problematic situation in w...
John Muscedere, Melissa K. Andrew, Sean M. Bagshaw, Carole A. Estabrooks et al.
RÉSUMÉ Avec le vieillissement de la population canadienne, la fragilité – avec son risque accru du déclin fonctionnel, la détérioration de la santé, et le décès – devient de plus en plus répandue. La physiologie de la fragilité reflète son origine parmi organes et systèmes multiples. Environ un quar...
Agnete Nygaard, Liv Halvorsrud, Siv Linnerud, Ellen Karine Grov et al.
OBJECTIVE: To summarise study descriptions of the James Lind Alliance (JLA) approach to the priority setting partnership (PSP) process and how this process is used to identify uncertainties and to develop lists of top 10 priorities. DESIGN: Scoping review. DATA SOURCES: The Embase, Medline (Ovid), P...
Helena Legido‐Quigley, Aliya Naheed, H. Asita de Silva, Imtiaz Jehan et al.
Hypertension is the leading risk factor for cardiovascular disease and leading cause of premature death globally. In 2008, approximately 40% of adults were diagnosed with hypertension, with more than 1.5 billion people estimated to be affected globally by 2025. Hypertension disproportionally affects...
Zaheer‐Ud‐Din Babar, Sara Ramzan, Faris El‐Dahiyat, Ilias Tachmazidis et al.
Background: One third of the world population does not have access to essential medicines. Diabetes require a long-term therapy, which incurs significant health care cost and thus impact access and affordability. This study aims to assess the availability, prices and affordability of four essential ...
Terry Porteous, Mandy Ryan, Christine M Bond, Philip C Hannaford
AIM: To determine the relative importance of factors that influence decision making in the management of minor illness, and how people trade between these factors. DESIGN OF STUDY: Discrete choice experiment. SETTING: Scottish electoral roll. METHOD: Six hundred and fifty-two responders of a previou...
Katherine Neuhausen, A. Davis, Jack Needleman, Robert H. Brook et al.
Safety-net hospitals rely on disproportionate-share hospital (DSH) payments to help cover uncompensated care costs and underpayments by Medicaid (known as Medicaid shortfalls). The Affordable Care Act (ACA) anticipates that insurance expansion will increase safety-net hospitals' revenues and will re...