Exclusive breastfeeding (EBF)-giving infants only breast-milk for the first 6 months of life-is a component of optimal breastfeeding practices effective in preventing child morbidity and mortality. EBF practices are known to vary by population and comparable subnational estimates of prevalence and progress across low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) are required for planning policy and interventions. Here w...
Background. While there is a long history of measuring death and disability from injuries, modern research methods must account for the wide spectrum of disability that can occur in an injury, and must provide estimates with sufficient demographic, geographical and temporal detail to be useful for policy makers. The Global Burden of Disease (GBD) 2017 study used methods to provide highly detailed estimates of g...
Background Past research in population health trends has shown that injuries form a substantial burden of population health loss. Regular updates to injury burden assessments are critical. We report Global Burden of Disease (GBD) 2017 Study estimates on morbidity and mortality for all injuries. Methods We reviewed results for injuries from the GBD 2017 study. GBD 2017 measured injury-specific mortality and year...
This article was corrected on January 28, 2021, to fix an error in a coauthor’s affiliation (jamaoncol.2020.8307). This article was also corrected on April 9, 2020, to fix an error in a coauthor’s affiliation (10.1001/jamaoncol.2020.0741) and on March 12, 2020, to fix errors in coauthors’ names and an affiliation, Table data, Figure data, and the Supplement (10.1001/jamaoncol.2020.0224). Importance Cancer and o...