Journal article
Estimates of global, regional, and national morbidity, mortality, and aetiologies of diarrhoeal diseases: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2015
Abstract
BACKGROUND: The Global Burden of Diseases, Injuries, and Risk Factors Study 2015 (GBD 2015) provides an up-to-date analysis of the burden of diarrhoeal diseases. This study assesses cases, deaths, and aetiologies spanning the past 25 years and informs the changing picture of diarrhoeal disease worldwide.
METHODS: We estimated diarrhoeal mortality by age, sex, geography, and year using the Cause of Death Ensemble Model (CODEm), a modelling …
Authors
Collaborators GDD; Troeger C; Forouzanfar M; Rao PC; Khalil I; Brown A; Reiner RC; Fullman N; Thompson RL; Abajobir A
Journal
The Lancet Infectious Diseases, Vol. 17, No. 9, pp. 909–948
Publisher
Elsevier
Publication Date
September 2017
DOI
10.1016/s1473-3099(17)30276-1
ISSN
1473-3099