Sentences with phrase «who global burden»

1 The WHO global burden of disease (GBD) measures burden of disease using the disability - adjusted - life - year (DALY).

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As well the WHO publication Global health risks: mortality and burden of disease attributable to selected major risks.

WHO is also providing updated estimates of the global burden of preterm birth and updating evidence - based clinical guidelines.

This much was recently brought to the fore by the World Health Organisation (WHO) in its 2016 «Global Tuberculosis Report» which ranked Nigeria fourth behind India, Indonesia and China as one of the six countries which accounted for 60 per cent of the total TB burden.

Osborne has shifted the burden of the bank levy from large banks with global balance sheets such as HSBC and Standard Chartered, who can easily get up and leave, and on to smaller banks and building societies, who can't leave.

Finally, an estimate of the burden of alcohol - attributable breast cancer incidence and mortality by means of a Population - Attributable Fraction methodology (using data on alcohol consumption from the Global Information System on Alcohol and Health, and data on cancer incidence and mortality from the GLOBOCAN database) showed that an estimated 144,000 breast - cancer cases and 38,000 breast - cancer deaths globally in 2012 were attributable to alcohol, with 18.8 % of these cases and 17.5 % of these deaths affecting women who were light drinkers.

This approach also relieves pressure on politicians who want to do something about global warming but don't want to impose burdens on the public, a key consideration at a time when high fuel prices and the economy are explosive issues.

«What we have found is that America has wonderful health care services for those who enjoy them,» says Lopez, today an IHME affiliate professor and the Rowden - White Chair of Global Health and Burden of Disease Measurement at the Melbourne School of Population and Global Health at the University of Melbourne in Australia.

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.&raqwho 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.&raqWHO findings are «a significant step forward in the global estimation of projected disease burden associated with climate change.»

The authors say «We have provided the first evidence that two brief psychological therapies targeting the two leading mental health related causes of the global burden of disease, delivered by the same lay counsellor in routine primary care, to patients who had never received such therapies before, can lead to sustained improvements in health over one year, and that the investments made in providing this intervention is excellent value for money.

Towards reducing the global burden of malaria and other neglected diseases, millions of compounds were screened, prioritized and assembled by the WHO - supported Medicines for Malaria Venture (MMV) as the MMV «Malaria Box» collection of 400 chemically diverse small molecules.

All told, the average rural Chinese citizen consumes 12 grams of salt daily, according to the 2010 Global Burden of Disease study; the average American takes in 9 grams, while the daily maximum recommended by the World Health Organization (WHO) is 5 grams.

At some point, nearly 10 % of the world's population experience back pain, which is the leading cause of disability according to the World Health Organization (WHO) Global Burden of Disease report (2010).

The burden of proof for the assertion that global warming «stopped» is on Courtney and all the ones who state this assertion.

Carbon offset schemes in agriculture will create one more driver of land dispossession of smallholder farmers, particularly in the Global South, and unfairly place the burden of mitigation on those who are most vulnerable to, but have least contributed to, the climate crisis.

In fact, the evidence is so great, the burden of proof is now on those who deny global warming.

The blame for the debacle, you see, belonged to the «emerging economies,» who refused to carry their shares of the global stabilization burden.

The money lost can be a major burden on children and families who withdraw, said Dan Durazo, director of communications at Allianz Global Assistance, which commissioned the survey.

Reducing the overrepresentation of women who are depressed would contribute significantly to lessening the global burden of disability caused by psychological disorders.

According to the WHO, it is the leading cause of ill health and disability worldwide.1 More than 300 million people are estimated to be suffering from depression, corresponding to 4.4 % of the global population.1 Depression is more common among older adults, with a prevalence of 7 % and believed to be underestimated.2 As the world population ages, there will be a corresponding increase in the number of older adults with depressive symptoms and associated global health burden.3