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Measuring progress from 1990 to 2017 and projecting attainment to 2030 of the health-related Sustainable Development Goals for 195 countries and territories
BACKGROUND: Efforts to establish the 2015 baseline and monitor early implementation of the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) highlight both great potential for and threats to improving health by 2030. To fully deliver on...
Population and fertility by age and sex for 195 countries and territories, 1950-2017
BACKGROUND: Population estimates underpin demographic and epidemiological research and are used to track progress on numerous international indicators of health and development. To date, internationally available estimates of...
Measuring the health-related Sustainable Development Goals in 188 countries
BACKGROUND: In September, 2015, the UN General Assembly established the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The SDGs specify 17 universal goals, 169 targets, and 230 indicators leading up to 2030. We provide an analysis of 33...
Global, regional, and national levels of maternal mortality, 1990-2015
BACKGROUND: In transitioning from the Millennium Development Goal to the Sustainable Development Goal era, it is imperative to comprehensively assess progress toward reducing maternal mortality to identify areas of success...
Global, regional, and national burden of Alzheimer's disease and other dementias, 1990-2016
BACKGROUND: The number of individuals living with dementia is increasing, negatively affecting families, communities, and health-care systems around the world. A successful response to these challenges requires an accurate...
Global, regional, national, and selected subnational levels of stillbirths, neonatal, infant, and under-5 mortality, 1980-2015
BACKGROUND: Established in 2000, Millennium Development Goal 4 (MDG4) catalysed extraordinary political, financial, and social commitments to reduce under-5 mortality by two-thirds between 1990 and 2015. At the country level...
Global, regional, and national burden of neurological disorders, 1990-2016
BACKGROUND: Neurological disorders are increasingly recognised as major causes of death and disability worldwide. The aim of this analysis from the Global Burden of Diseases, Injuries, and Risk Factors Study (GBD) 2016 is to...
Global, regional, and national incidence, prevalence, and years lived with disability for 310 diseases and injuries, 1990-2015
BACKGROUND: Non-fatal outcomes of disease and injury increasingly detract from the ability of the world's population to live in full health, a trend largely attributable to an epidemiological transition in many countries from...
Global, regional, and national life expectancy, all-cause mortality, and cause-specific mortality for 249 causes of death, 1980-2015
BACKGROUND: Improving survival and extending the longevity of life for all populations requires timely, robust evidence on local mortality levels and trends. The Global Burden of Disease 2015 Study (GBD 2015) provides a...
Use of multidimensional item response theory methods for dementia prevalence prediction
BACKGROUND: Data sparsity is a major limitation to estimating national and global dementia burden. Surveys with full diagnostic evaluations of dementia prevalence are prohibitively resource-intensive in many settings. However...
Guidelines for Data Collection to Measure SDG 4.7.4 and 4.7.5
In an effort to promote robust and comparable measurements of SDG 4 in this Decade of Action as nations strive to meet education targets, the UIS has spearheaded a methodological program on learning outcomes. Drawing from the...
THE CONCISE GUIDE TO PHARMACOLOGY 2017/18
The Concise Guide to PHARMACOLOGY 2017/18 provides concise overviews of the key properties of nearly 1800 human drug targets with an emphasis on selective pharmacology (where available), plus links to an open access...
Guidelines for Data Collection to Measure SDG 4.7.4 and 4.7.5
In an effort to promote robust and comparable measurements of SDG 4 in this Decade of Action as nations strive to meet education targets, the UIS has spearheaded a methodological program on learning outcomes. Drawing from the...
THE CONCISE GUIDE TO PHARMACOLOGY 2017/18
The Concise Guide to PHARMACOLOGY 2017/18 is the third in this series of biennial publications. This version provides concise overviews of the key properties of nearly 1800 human drug targets with an emphasis on selective...
Global, regional, and national burden of neurological disorders during 1990-2015
BACKGROUND: Comparable data on the global and country-specific burden of neurological disorders and their trends are crucial for health-care planning and resource allocation. The Global Burden of Diseases, Injuries, and Risk...
2017 Ursinus College Commencement Program
Ursinus College
Jan 01, 0001
This Ursinus College Commencement program from 2017 contains the list of speakers and order of events for the day.
Published by: Ursinus College
Exploring ICCS 2016 to measure progress toward target 4.7
The objective of this report is to analyse data from the last cycle of the International Civic and Citizenship Study (ICCS 2016) (Schulz et al., 2017) in order to demonstrate its potential for monitoring specific aspects of the...
Published by: UNESCO
Summer 2017
Inside this issue: "South Carolina Naturalist Rudy Mancke to Address Friends of Dacus, October 2nd" (p.1) "Friends Business to be Conducted" (p.1) "Is Fake News Faking You Out?" by Dean Mark Herring (p.2) "A Final Note from the...
Published by: Winthrop University

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