For how we live.
A Global Burden of Disease analysis found early-neonatal mortality in Kazakhstan dropped about 33% from 2010 to 2023 — yet boys kept dying at higher rates than girls, a gap that only recently began to close.
A meta-analysis of 15 cohorts found 45% of deaths in people with intellectual and developmental disabilities were classed as avoidable — about 3.6 times the rate in people without disabilities, on rich-country data.
A Global Burden of Disease 2023 analysis of 31 countries finds the burden climbing, peaking in early adolescence and heavier in women, with population growth the single biggest driver.
The first dedicated Global Burden of Disease analysis of passive smoking finds exposure falling in relative terms but stuck in absolute numbers, and still causing 1.66 million deaths a year — most from heart disease.
A GBD 2023 analysis counts the global health workforce by sex for the first time, and finds it nearly tripled since 1990 — yet still falls tens of millions of workers short of universal health coverage.
A PAHO systematic analysis of WHO estimates finds injury rates falling in most of the region but violence and drowning still splitting countries apart, with men carrying nearly three-quarters of the burden.
Housing is a health exposure. The mortality data on homelessness are among the starkest in medicine — and a large share of the deaths are from causes health care can treat.
A study of 46 pathogens attributes about 66,400 child deaths in 2023 to Streptococcus pneumoniae across G20 countries, with the heaviest load falling on India, South Africa and Indonesia.
The evidence that recessions and job loss kill is stronger than it looks. Three landmark studies quantify the mortality signal — and where it stops being causal.
Federal statistics put 18.3 million households short of food last year. A 57,404-person cohort links lower food security to higher premature mortality and years of lost life expectancy.
A pooled analysis of 315,403 adults finds wealth inequalities in hypertension, diabetes and cholesterol care grow across the care cascade — but the biggest treatment gaps are not where most heart risk could be averted.
A descriptive study using WHO modelled estimates for 2022 put current cigarette use between 1.7% in Ghana and 18.2% in Seychelles, with the male-female gap reaching 36.4 points in Lesotho.
A vaccine given in 2017 still cut cholera risk 78% five years on, new data show — even as collapsing water and health services let the outbreak spread through Artibonite and Centre.
A Global Burden of Disease 2021 analysis of 5-to-9-year-olds finds falling disability rates worldwide, yet projects that South and Southeast Asia and sub-Saharan Africa will still carry the heaviest load.
The association was strongest where the air was worst — which is the tell. A parallel US survey finds the indoor facilities are the ones vanishing from low-income neighbourhoods.
One study screened 916,904 acute-care visits to find which diagnoses actually rise with extreme heat. Another, in Phoenix, asks a prior question: who calls for help at all.
A UK survey of 26,322 urban adults finds a small but consistent life-satisfaction gain from neighbourhood greenery. A Stockholm study of 46,282 shows who ends up living without it.
A registry study spanning 4.9 million people separates where the most deaths occur from where the inequality is largest. Heart disease and lung disease give different answers.
The ESC Atlas reports 68 million disability-adjusted life years and more than three million cardiovascular deaths a year, with middle-income countries carrying roughly double the mortality of high-income ones.
Global Burden of Disease data show prevalent traumatic brain injury cases in people aged 15-49 rose from 12.53 million in 1990 to 14.99 million in 2021, even as age-standardised rates fell.
About 260,000 women died in pregnancy or childbirth in 2023; 37 conflict-affected or fragile countries accounted for 61% of those deaths while holding only a quarter of the world's births.
An analysis of 104 trials found a 10 to 20 percent reduction under some diagnostic criteria and none under UK criteria. A separate review found a GDM diagnosis is not associated with more stillbirths.
Two November burden analyses put diabetes diagnosed before 40 on an upward path to 2050. In the Americas, Central Latin America carried the highest rates and men carried more of the burden than women.
A global analysis separates exposure inequality from mortality inequality and finds they run in opposite directions between countries, and sometimes within them.
About 1,009 deaths a year were attributable to heatwaves in 2016-2019. Queensland and New South Wales carried rates more than three times Western Australia's.