Sentences with phrase «global burden of disease project»

An estimated 627,000 Indians die prematurely each year from outdoor air pollution, according to the World Health Organization's Global Burden of Disease project.

The research was conducted by dozens of international health and environmental experts and incorporates data from the ambitious Global Burden of Disease project, which highlighted how smoking, blood pressure, poor diet, and environmental factors affect human health earlier this year.

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It is the result of the Global Burden of Disease — Major Air Pollution Sources (GDB MAPS) project, an international collaboration of Tsinghua University, the Health Effects Institute, the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME), and the University of British Columbia.

Jeremy Hess, an Emory University physician and epidemiologist who has studied the relationship between climate change and health conditions, said in an email that the WHO findings are «a significant step forward in the global estimation of projected disease burden associated with climate change.»

The ENCODE project that tries to make sense of the flood of human genetic information and the CERN high - energy physics lab are examples, he told the meeting, «and the global burden of disease is in that category.

Measuring progress and projecting attainment on the basis of past trends of the health - related Sustainable Development Goals in 188 countries: an analysis from the Global Burden of Disease Study 2016.

Health: The UNFCC's projected cost of $ 5 billion for health only included malaria, diarrhea, and malnutrition, and did not include any costs for developed nations — omitting 30 - 50 % of global total disease burden.