Respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) is a common and highly contagious respiratory virus that affects all ages, but the highest clinical burden is in young children [ 1 ]. RSV is a leading cause of lower respiratory tract infections in children …

Discussing global health outcomes in terms of aggregate trends can be useful for communicating with donors or the public, but this might obscure important distributional information. Understanding distributional effects and whether the underlying …

Antenatal care is a crucial component of maternal and child health and is one of the most important services connected to pregnancy that offers exceptional chances to serve pregnant women with both preventative and curative care [ 1 ]. Antenatal …

IgG4-related disease (IgG4-RD) is a fibroinflammatory systemic disease that can involve nearly any organ. Core features include tissue infiltration of IgG4-positive plasma cells causing tumefactive lesions and/or organomegaly, frequently …

Non-communicable diseases (NCDs) comprise many chronic diseases such as cardiovascular diseases (CVDs), cancers, diabetes mellitus (DM), and respiratory diseases. The global number of deaths attributable to NCDs is 41 million people per year …

Poor diet continues to be a cause of morbidity and mortality in Canada and is a key contributor to the development of obesity and other diet-related chronic diseases among Canadians [ 1 , 2 ]. Notably, 48.3% of the calories consumed by Canadian …

Despite significant progress in tobacco control and prevention efforts, tobacco use remains the leading cause of preventable disease and death in the U.S.[ 1 ] Preventing tobacco initiation among youth is a critical component of comprehensive …

Multiple sclerosis (MS) is a chronic neurological disease with high socioeconomic burden [ 1 – 3 ]. Since the first approval of a disease-modifying therapy (DMT) in 1993, MS treatment has shifted from managing acute relapses to preventing disease …

In 2010, about 12.9 million people were killed by ischemic heart disease and stroke, an increasingly important risk factor for which is diabetes [ 1 , 2 ]. Diabetes mellitus is a chronic metabolic non-communicable disease (NCD), which has spread …

Over the recent decades, epidemiologic evidences have shown that non-communicable diseases (NCD) are being the main contributors to disease burden worldwide [ 1 , 2 ]. As a crucial category of NCDs, chronic respiratory diseases (CRD) have been the …

Health services are facing unprecedented financial and operational pressures [ 1 ]. With England’s expanding and ageing population, demand for services is outpacing the rate at which the NHS’s budget is growing [ 2 , 3 ]. A policy objective aimed …

Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is an illness caused by a novel pathogen that has been named “severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2” (SARS-CoV-2) [ 1 ]. As of early April 2020, over 1.4 million COVID-19 cases and 80,000 deaths have …