Background Monitoring levels and trends in premature mortality is crucial to understanding
how societies can address prominent sources of early death. The Global Burden of Disease …

Background Measurement of changes in health across locations is useful to compare and
contrast changing epidemiological patterns against health system performance and identify …

Importance The increasing burden due to cancer and other noncommunicable diseases
poses a threat to human development, which has resulted in global political commitments …

Summary Background The Global Burden of Diseases, Injuries, and Risk Factors Study
2016 (GBD 2016) provides a comprehensive assessment of risk factor exposure and …

BACKGROUND Endoscopic oesophageal changes are diagnostically helpful and identify
patients exposed to the risk of disease chronicity. However, there is a serious lack of …

Background Detailed assessments of mortality patterns, particularly age-specific mortality,
represent a crucial input that enables health systems to target interventions to specific …

Background A key component of achieving universal health coverage is ensuring that all
populations have access to quality health care. Examining where gains have occurred or …

The Arctic and Antarctic polar regions are subject to multiple environmental threats, arising
from both local and ex‐situ human activities. We review the major threats to polar …

In this article we explore the paradox of why morphological data are currently utilized less for
phylogeny reconstruction than are DNA sequence data, whereas most of what we know …

Environmental decision-makers and practitioners need and deserve high-quality
environmental evidence for effective decision-making. We collate and share a suite of best …