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International Journal of Public Health

Ausgabe Sonderheft 1/2018

The state of health in the Eastern Mediterranean Region, 1990–2015: Supplement of the Global Burden of Disease Eastern Mediterranean Region Collaborators, Editors: Nino Künzli and Anke Berger

Inhalt (19 Artikel)

Open Access Commentary

When violence becomes endemic

Leslie F. Roberts

Open Access Erratum

Erratum to: When violence becomes endemic

Leslie F. Roberts

Open Access Original Article

Danger ahead: the burden of diseases, injuries, and risk factors in the Eastern Mediterranean Region, 1990–2015

Charbel El Bcheraoui, Raghid Charara, Ibrahim Khalil, Maziar Moradi-Lakeh, Ashkan Afshin, Michael Collison, Farah Daoud, Kristopher J. Krohn, Adrienne Chew, Stan Biryukov, Daniel Casey, Kelly Cercy, Fiona J. Charlson, Leslie Cornaby, Daniel Dicker, Holly E. Erskine, Alize J. Ferrari, Christina Fitzmaurice, Kyle J. Foreman, Maya Fraser, Joseph Frostad, William W. Godwin, Max Griswold, Nicholas J. Kassebaum, Laura Kemmer, Michael Kutz, Hmwe H. Kyu, Janni Leung, Patrick Liu, Joseph Mikesell, Grant Nguyen, Helen E. Olsen, Robert Reiner, Marissa Reitsma, Gregory Roth, Damian Santomauro, Alison Smith, Jeffrey D. Stanaway, Patrick Sur, Haidong Wang, Harvey A. Whiteford, Rima Afifi, Aliasghar Ahmad Kiadaliri, Alireza Ahmadi, Hamid Ahmadieh, Khurshid Alam, Noore Alam, Raghib Ali, Reza Alizadeh-Navaei, Rajaa Al-Raddadi, Khalid A. Altirkawi, Nahla Anber, Hossein Ansari, Palwasha Anwari, Hamid Asayesh, Solomon W. Asgedom, Tesfay Mehari Atey, Umar Bacha, Shahrzad Bazargan-Hejazi, Neeraj Bedi, Zulfiqar A. Bhutta, Donal Bisanzio, Zahid A. Butt, Amare Deribew, Shirin Djalalinia, Babak Eshrati, Alireza Esteghamati, Maryam S. Farvid, Farshad Farzadfar, Seyed-Mohammad Fereshtehnejad, Florian Fischer, Tsegaye T. Gebrehiwot, Nima Hafezi-Nejad, Randah R. Hamadeh, Samer Hamidi, Peter J. Hotez, Mohamed Hsairi, Jost B. Jonas, Amir Kasaeian, Yousef S. Khader, Ejaz A. Khan, Gulfaraz Khan, Abdullah T. A. Khoja, Tawfik A. M. Khoja, Jagdish Khubchandani, Jacek A. Kopec, Heidi J. Larson, Raimundas Lunevicius, Hassan Magdy Abd El Razek, Mohammed Magdy Abd El Razek, Reza Majdzadeh, Azeem Majeed, Reza Malekzadeh, Ziad A. Memish, George A. Mensah, Jamal T. Nasher, Carla M. Obermeyer, Farshad Pourmalek, Mostafa Qorbani, Amir Radfar, Anwar Rafay, Vafa Rahimi-Movaghar, Rajesh Kumar Rai, David L. Rawaf, Salman Rawaf, Amany H. Refaat, Satar Rezaei, Gholamreza Roshandel, Mahdi Safdarian, Sare Safi, Saeid Safiri, Mohammad Ali Sahraian, Payman Salamati, Abdallah M. Samy, Benn Sartorius, Sadaf G. Sepanlou, Masood A. Shaikh, Morteza Shamsizadeh, Badr H. A. Sobaih, Rizwan Suliankatchi Abdulkader, Arash Tehrani-Banihashemi, Mohamad-Hani Temsah, Abdullah S. Terkawi, Roman Topor-Madry, Olalekan A. Uthman, Stein Emil Vollset, Andrea Werdecker, Mohsen Yaghoubi, Mehdi Yaseri, Mustafa Z. Younis, Maysaa E. S. Zaki, Aisha O. Jumaan, Theo Vos, Mohsen Naghavi, Simon I. Hay, Christopher J. L. Murray, Ali H. Mokdad

Open Access Original Article

The burden of mental disorders in the Eastern Mediterranean region, 1990–2015: findings from the global burden of disease 2015 study

Raghid Charara, Charbel El Bcheraoui, Ibrahim Khalil, Maziar Moradi-Lakeh, Ashkan Afshin, Nicholas J. Kassebaum, Michael Collison, Kristopher J. Krohn, Adrienne Chew, Farah Daoud, Fiona J. Charlson, Danny Colombara, Louisa Degenhardt, Rebecca Ehrenkranz, Holly E. Erskine, Alize J. Ferrari, Michael Kutz, Janni Leung, Damian Santomauro, Haidong Wang, Harvey A. Whiteford, Amanuel Alemu Abajobir, Foad Abd-Allah, Haftom Niguse Abraha, Laith J. Abu-Raddad, Aliasghar Ahmad Kiadaliri, Alireza Ahmadi, Kedir Yimam Ahmed, Muktar Beshir Ahmed, Faris Hasan Al Lami, Khurshid Alam, Deena Alasfoor, Reza Alizadeh-Navaei, Juma M Alkaabi, Fatma Al-Maskari, Rajaa Al-Raddadi, Khalid A. Altirkawi, Nahla Anber, Hossein Ansari, Hamid Asayesh, Rana Jawad Asghar, Tesfay Mehari Atey, Tadesse Awoke Ayele, Till Bärnighausen, Umar Bacha, Aleksandra Barac, Suzanne L. Barker-Collo, Bernhard T. Baune, Shahrzad Bazargan-Hejazi, Neeraj Bedi, Isabela M. Bensenor, Adugnaw Berhane, Addisu Shunu Beyene, Zulfiqar A. Bhutta, Dube Jara Boneya, Rohan Borschmann, Nicholas J. K. Breitborde, Zahid A Butt, Ferrán Catalá-López, Liliana G. Ciobanu, Hadi Danawi, Amare Deribew, Samath D. Dharmaratne, Kerrie E. Doyle, Aman Yesuf Endries, Emerito Jose Aquino Faraon, André Faro, Maryam S. Farvid, Wubalem Fekadu, Seyed-Mohammad Fereshtehnejad, Florian Fischer, Tsegaye Tewelde Gebrehiwot, Ababi Zergaw Giref, Melkamu Dedefo Gishu, Alessandra Carvalho Goulart, Tesfa Dejenie Habtewold, Randah Ribhi Hamadeh, Mitiku Teshome Hambisa, Samer Hamidi, Josep Maria Haro, Mohammad Sadegh Hassanvand, Nobuyuki Horita, Mohamed Hsairi, Hsiang Huang, Abdullatif Husseini, Mihajlo B. Jakovljevic, Spencer Lewis James, Jost B. Jonas, Amir Kasaeian, Yousef Saleh Khader, Ejaz Ahmad Khan, Abdullah Tawfih Abdullah Khoja, Ardeshir Khosravi, Jagdish Khubchandani, Daniel Kim, Yun Jin Kim, Yoshihiro Kokubo, Ai Koyanagi, Barthelemy Kuate Defo, Heidi J. Larson, Asma Abdul Latif, Paul H. Lee, Cheru Tesema Leshargie, Ricky Leung, Loon-Tzian Lo, Raimundas Lunevicius, Hassan Magdy Abd El Razek, Mohammed Magdy Abd El Razek, Reza Majdzadeh, Azeem Majeed, Reza Malekzadeh, Jose Martinez-Raga, Habibolah Masoudi Farid, Mohsen Mazidi, John J. McGrath, Ziad A. Memish, Walter Mendoza, Melkamu Merid Mengesha, Mubarek Abera Mengistie, Haftay Berhane Mezgebe, Ted R. Miller, Philip B. Mitchell, Alireza Mohammadi, Shafiu Mohammed, Carla Makhlouf Obermeyer, Felix Akpojene Ogbo, Elizabeth Palomares Castillo, Christina Papachristou, Scott B. Patten, George C. Patton, Aslam Pervaiz, Michael Robert Phillips, Farshad Pourmalek, Mostafa Qorbani, Amir Radfar, Anwar Rafay, Vafa Rahimi-Movaghar, Rajesh Kumar Rai, David Laith Rawaf, Salman Rawaf, Amany H. Refaat, Satar Rezaei, Mohammad Sadegh Rezai, Gholamreza Roshandel, Mahdi Safdarian, Mahdi Safiabadi, Saeid Safiri, Rajesh Sagar, Mohammad Ali Sahraian, Payman Salamati, Abdallah M. Samy, Benn Sartorius, Mete I. Saylan, Soraya Seedat, Sadaf G. Sepanlou, Masood Ali Shaikh, Morteza Shamsizadeh, Diego Augusto Santos Silva, Jasvinder A. Singh, Badr H. A. Sobaih, Dan J. Stein, Rizwan Suliankatchi Abdulkader, Bryan L. Sykes, Rafael Tabarés-Seisdedos, Karen M. Tabb, Arash Tehrani-Banihashemi, Mohamad-Hani Temsah, Abdullah Sulieman Terkawi, Roman Topor-Madry, Kingsley Nnanna Ukwaja, Olalekan A. Uthman, Stein Emil Vollset, Tolassa Wakayo, Yuan-Pang Wang, Andrea Werdecker, Ronny Westerman, Abdulhalik Workicho, Mohsen Yaghoubi, Hassen Hamid Yimam, Naohiro Yonemoto, Mustafa Z. Younis, Chuanhua Yu, Maysaa El Sayed Zaki, Bassel Zein, Aisha O. Jumaan, Theo Vos, Simon I. Hay, Mohsen Naghavi, Christopher J. L. Murray, Ali H. Mokdad

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Intentional injuries in the Eastern Mediterranean Region, 1990–2015: findings from the Global Burden of Disease 2015 study

Maziar Moradi-Lakeh, Raghid Charara, Charbel El Bcheraoui, Ibrahim Khalil, Ashkan Afshin, Nicholas J. Kassebaum, Michael Collison, Adrienne Chew, Kristopher J. Krohn, Farah Daoud, Danny Colombara, Nicholas Graetz, Michael Kutz, Haidong Wang, Foad Abd-Allah, Laith J. Abu-Raddad, Aliasghar Ahmad Kiadaliri, Muktar Beshir Ahmed, Khurshid Alam, Suliman Alghnam, Rajaa Al-Raddadi, Khalid A. Altirkawi, Nahla Anber, Palwasha Anwari, Leticia Avila-Burgos, Ashish Awasthi, Aleksandra Barac, Suzanne L. Barker-Collo, Neeraj Bedi, Zulfiqar A. Bhutta, Rohan Borschmann, Soufiane Boufous, Zahid A. Butt, Carlos A. Castañeda-Orjuela, Koustuv Dalal, Hadi Danawi, Diego De Leo, Samath D. Dharmaratne, Shirin Djalalinia, Kerrie E. Doyle, Alireza Esteghamati, André Faro, Maryam S. Farvid, Seyed-Mohammad Fereshtehnejad, Florian Fischer, Tsegaye Tewelde Gebrehiwot, Reyna A. Gutiérrez, Nima Hafezi-Nejad, Randah Ribhi Hamadeh, Samer Hamidi, Josep Maria Haro, Delia Hendrie, Guoqing Hu, Jost B. Jonas, Peter Njenga Keiyoro, Yousef Saleh Khader, Ejaz Ahmad Khan, Jagdish Khubchandani, Jacek A. Kopec, Heidi J. Larson, Asma Abdul Latif, Cheru Tesema Leshargie, Raimundas Lunevicius, Mohammed Magdy Abd El Razek, Azeem Majeed, Reza Malekzadeh, Ziad A. Memish, Tuomo J. Meretoja, Ted R. Miller, Shafiu Mohammed, Carla Makhlouf Obermeyer, Felix Akpojene Ogbo, Michael Robert Phillips, Farshad Pourmalek, Mostafa Qorbani, Amir Radfar, Anwar Rafay, Afarin Rahimi-Movaghar, Vafa Rahimi-Movaghar, Rajesh Kumar Rai, David Laith Rawaf, Salman Rawaf, Satar Rezaei, Mohammad Sadegh Rezai, Gholamreza Roshandel, Mahdi Safdarian, Saeid Safiri, Payman Salamati, Abdallah M. Samy, Benn Sartorius, Soraya Seedat, Sadaf G. Sepanlou, Masood Ali Shaikh, Badr H. A. Sobaih, Karen M. Tabb, Arash Tehrani-Banihashemi, Mohamad-Hani Temsah, Abdullah Sulieman Terkawi, Roman Topor-Madry, Kingsley Nnanna Ukwaja, Olalekan A. Uthman, Mehdi Yaseri, Naohiro Yonemoto, Mustafa Z. Younis, Aisha O. Jumaan, Theo Vos, Simon I. Hay, Mohsen Naghavi, Christopher J. L. Murray, Ali H. Mokdad

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Maternal mortality and morbidity burden in the Eastern Mediterranean Region: findings from the Global Burden of Disease 2015 study

Ibrahim Khalil, Michael Collison, Charbel El Bcheraoui, Raghid Charara, Maziar Moradi-Lakeh, Ashkan Afshin, Adrienne Chew, Farah Daoud, Kristopher J. Krohn, Danny Colombara, Rebecca Ehrenkranz, Michael Kutz, Haidong Wang, Amanuel Alemu Abajobir, Foad Abd-Allah, Haftom Niguse Abraha, Laith J. Abu-Raddad, Aliasghar Ahmad Kiadaliri, Alireza Ahmadi, Kedir Yimam Ahmed, Muktar Beshir Ahmed, Faris Hasan Al Lami, Khurshid Alam, Deena Alasfoor, Reza Alizadeh-Navaei, Juma M. Alkaabi, Fatma Al-Maskari, Rajaa Al-Raddadi, Khalid A. Altirkawi, Nahla Anber, Hossein Ansari, Hamid Asayesh, Rana Jawad Asghar, Tesfay Mehari Atey, Tadesse Awoke Ayele, Till Bärnighausen, Umar Bacha, Aleksandra Barac, Suzanne L. Barker-Collo, Bernhard T. Baune, Shahrzad Bazargan-Hejazi, Neeraj Bedi, Isabela M. Bensenor, Adugnaw Berhane, Addisu Shunu Beyene, Zulfiqar A. Bhutta, Dube Jara Boneya, Rohan Borschmann, Nicholas J. K. Breitborde, Zahid A. Butt, Ferrán Catalá-López, Liliana G. Ciobanu, Hadi Danawi, Amare Deribew, Samath D. Dharmaratne, Kerrie E. Doyle, Aman Yesuf Endries, Emerito Jose Aquino Faraon, André Faro, Maryam S. Farvid, Wubalem Fekadu, Seyed-Mohammad Fereshtehnejad, Florian Fischer, Tsegaye Tewelde Gebrehiwot, Ababi Zergaw Giref, Melkamu Dedefo Gishu, Alessandra Carvalho Goulart, Tesfa Dejenie Habtewold, Randah Ribhi Hamadeh, Mitiku Teshome Hambisa, Samer Hamidi, Josep Maria Haro, Mohammad Sadegh Hassanvand, Nobuyuki Horita, Mohamed Hsairi, Hsiang Huang, Abdullatif Husseini, Mihajlo B. Jakovljevic, Spencer Lewis James, Jost B. Jonas, Amir Kasaeian, Yousef Saleh Khader, Ejaz Ahmad Khan, Abdullah Tawfih Abdullah Khoja, Ardeshir Khosravi, Jagdish Khubchandani, Daniel Kim, Yun Jin Kim, Yoshihiro Kokubo, Ai Koyanagi, Barthelemy Kuate Defo, Heidi J. Larson, Asma Abdul Latif, Paul H. Lee, Cheru Tesema Leshargie, Ricky Leung, Loon-Tzian Lo, Raimundas Lunevicius, Hassan Magdy Abd El Razek, Mohammed Magdy Abd El Razek, Reza Majdzadeh, Azeem Majeed, Reza Malekzadeh, Jose Martinez-Raga, Habibolah Masoudi Farid, Mohsen Mazidi, John J. McGrath, Ziad A. Memish, Walter Mendoza, Melkamu Merid Mengesha, Mubarek Abera Mengistie, George A. Mensah, Haftay Berhane Mezgebe, Ted R. Miller, Philip B. Mitchell, Alireza Mohammadi, Shafiu Mohammed, Carla Makhlouf Obermeyer, Felix Akpojene Ogbo, Elizabeth Palomares Castillo, Christina Papachristou, Scott B. Patten, George C. Patton, Pereira M. David, Aslam Pervaiz, Michael Robert Phillips, Farshad Pourmalek, Mostafa Qorbani, Amir Radfar, Anwar Rafay, Vafa Rahimi-Movaghar, Rajesh Kumar Rai, David Laith Rawaf, Salman Rawaf, Amany H. Refaat, Satar Rezaei, Mohammad Sadegh Rezai, Gholamreza Roshandel, Mahdi Safdarian, Mahdi Safiabadi, Saeid Safiri, Rajeh Sagar, Mohammad Ali Sahraian, Payman Salamati, Abdallah M. Samy, Benn Sartorius, Mete I. Saylan, Soraya Seedat, Sadaf G. Sepanlou, Masood Ali Shaikh, Morteza Shamsizadeh, Diego Augusto Santos Silva, Jasvinder A. Singh, Badr H. A. Sobaih, Chandrashekhar T. Sreeramareddy, Dan J. Stein, Rizwan Suliankatchi Abdulkader, Bryan L. Sykes, Rafael Tabarés-Seisdedos, Karen M. Tabb, Arash Tehrani-Banihashemi, Mohamad-Hani Temsah, Abdullah Sulieman Terkawi, Roman Topor-Madry, Kingsley Nnanna Ukwaja, Olalekan A. Uthman, Stein Emil Vollset, Tolassa Wakayo, Yuan-Pang Wang, Andrea Werdecker, Ronny Westerman, Abdulhalik Workicho, Mohsen Yaghoubi, Hassen Hamid Yimam, Naohiro Yonemoto, Mustafa Z. Younis, Chuanhua Yu, Maysaa El Sayed Zaki, Aisha O. Jumaan, Theo Vos, Simon I. Hay, Mohsen Naghavi, Nicholas J. Kassebaum, Christopher J. L. Murray, Ali H. Mokdad

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Neonatal, infant, and under-5 mortality and morbidity burden in the Eastern Mediterranean region: findings from the Global Burden of Disease 2015 study

Ibrahim Khalil, Michael Collison, Charbel El Bcheraoui, Raghid Charara, Maziar Moradi-Lakeh, Ashkan Afshin, Kristopher J. Krohn, Farah Daoud, Adrienne Chew, Nicholas J Kassebaum, Danny Colombara, Leslie Cornaby, Rebecca Ehrenkranz, Kyle J. Foreman, Maya Fraser, Joseph Frostad, Laura Kemmer, Xie Rachel Kulikoff, Michael Kutz, Hmwe H. Kyu, Patrick Liu, Joseph Mikesell, Grant Nguyen, Puja C. Rao, Naris Silpakit, Amber Sligar, Alison Smith, Jeffrey D. Stanaway, Johan Ärnlöv, Kalkidan Hassen Abate, Aliasghar Ahmad Kiadaliri, Khurshid Alam, Deena Alasfoor, Raghib Ali, Reza Alizadeh-Navaei, Rajaa Al-Raddadi, Khalid A. Altirkawi, Nelson Alvis-Guzman, Nahla Anber, Hossein Ansari, Carl Abelardo T. Antonio, Palwasha Anwari, Al Artaman, Hamid Asayesh, Solomon Weldegebreal Asgedom, Peter Azzopardi, Umar Bacha, Aleksandra Barac, Suzanne L. Barker-Collo, Neeraj Bedi, Ettore Beghi, Derrick A. Bennett, Zulfiqar A. Bhutta, Donal Bisanzio, Carlos A. Castañeda-Orjuela, Ruben Estanislao Castro, Hadi Danawi, Kebede Deribe, Amare Deribew, Don C. Des Jarlais, Gabrielle A deVeber, Subhojit Dey, Samath D. Dharmaratne, Shirin Djalalinia, Huyen Phuc Do, Alireza Esteghamati, Maryam S Farvid, Seyed-Mohammad Fereshtehnejad, Florian Fischer, Tsegaye Tewelde Gebrehiwot, Giorgia Giussani, Philimon N. Gona, Nima Hafezi-Nejad, Randah Ribhi Hamadeh, Samer Hamidi, Damian G. Hoy, Guoqing Hu, Denny John, Jost B. Jonas, Seyed M. Karimi, Amir Kasaeian, Yousef Saleh Khader, Ejaz Ahmad Khan, Gulfaraz Khan, Daniel Kim, Yun Jin Kim, Yohannes Kinfu, Heidi J. Larson, Asma Abdul Latif, Janet L Leasher, Raimundas Lunevicius, Hassan Magdy Abd El Razek, Mohammed Magdy Abd El Razek, Azeem Majeed, Reza Malekzadeh, Ziad A. Memish, Walter Mendoza, Haftay Berhane Mezgebe, Ted R. Miller, Lorenzo Monasta, Quyen Le Nguyen, Carla Makhlouf Obermeyer, Alberto Ortiz, Christina Papachristou, Eun-Kee Park, Claudia C. Pereira, Max Petzold, Michael Robert Phillips, Farshad Pourmalek, Mostafa Qorbani, Anwar Rafay, Vafa Rahimi-Movaghar, Rajesh Kumar Rai, Saleem M Rana, David Laith Rawaf, Salman Rawaf, Andre M.N. Renzaho, Satar Rezaei, Mohammad Sadegh Rezai, Luca Ronfani, Gholamreza Roshandel, George Mugambage Ruhago, Mahdi Safdarian, Saeid Safiri, Mohammad Ali Sahraian, Payman Salamati, Abdallah M. Samy, Juan Ramon Sanabria, Benn Sartorius, David C. Schwebel, Soraya Seedat, Sadaf G. Sepanlou, Tesfaye Setegn, Amira Shaheen, Masood Ali Shaikh, Morteza Shamsizadeh, Rahman Shiri, Vegard Skirbekk, Badr H. A. Sobaih, Chandrashekhar T. Sreeramareddy, Vasiliki Stathopoulou, Rizwan Suliankatchi Abdulkader, Arash Tehrani-Banihashemi, Mohamad-Hani Temsah, JS Thakur, Alan J. Thomson, Bach Xuan Tran, Thomas Truelsen, Kingsley Nnanna Ukwaja, Olalekan A. Uthman, Tommi Vasankari, Vasiliy Victorovich Vlassov, Elisabete Weiderpass, Robert G. Weintraub, Andrea Werdecker, Mohsen Yaghoubi, Mehdi Yaseri, Naohiro Yonemoto, Mustafa Z. Younis, Chuanhua Yu, Aisha O. Jumaan, Theo Vos, Simon I. Hay, Mohsen Naghavi, Haidong Wang, Christopher J. L. Murray, Ali H. Mokdad

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Adolescent health in the Eastern Mediterranean Region: findings from the global burden of disease 2015 study

Peter Azzopardi, Karly Cini, Elissa Kennedy, Susan Sawyer, Charbel El Bcheraoui, Raghid Charara, Ibrahim Khalil, Maziar Moradi-Lakeh, Michael Collison, Rima A. Afifi, Jamela Al-raiby, Kristopher J. Krohn, Farah Daoud, Adrienne Chew, Ashkan Afshin, Kyle J. Foreman, Nicholas J. Kassebaum, Michael Kutz, Hmwe H. Kyu, Patrick Liu, Helen E. Olsen, Alison Smith, Jeffrey D. Stanaway, Haidong Wang, Johan Ärnlöv, Aliasghar Ahmad Kiadaliri, Khurshid Alam, Deena Alasfoor, Raghib Ali, Reza Alizadeh-Navaei, Rajaa Al-Raddadi, Khalid A. Altirkawi, Nelson Alvis-Guzman, Nahla Anber, Carl Abelardo T. Antonio, Palwasha Anwari, Al Artaman, Hamid Asayesh, Suzanne L. Barker-Collo, Neeraj Bedi, Ettore Beghi, Derrick A. Bennett, Isabela M. Bensenor, Zulfiqar A. Bhutta, Zahid A. Butt, Carlos A. Castañeda-Orjuela, Ferrán Catalá-López, Fiona J. Charlson, Hadi Danawi, Diego De Leo, Louisa Degenhardt, Donna Denno, Kebede Deribe, Don C. Des Jarlais, Subhojit Dey, Samath D. Dharmaratne, Shirin Djalalinia, Holly E. Erskine, Seyed-Mohammad Fereshtehnejad, Alize J. Ferrari, Florian Fischer, Tsegaye Tewelde Gebrehiwot, Johanna M. Geleijnse, Philimon N. Gona, Harish Chander Gugnani, Rajeev Gupta, Randah Ribhi Hamadeh, Samer Hamidi, Josep Maria Haro, Roderick J. Hay, Stephen J. C. Hearps, Delia Hendrie, Peter J. Hotez, Guoqing Hu, Jost B. Jonas, André Karch, Seyed M. Karimi, Amir Kasaeian, Seifu Kebede, Andre Pascal Kengne, Ejaz Ahmad Khan, Ardeshir Khosravi, Jagdish Khubchandani, Yoshihiro Kokubo, Jacek A. Kopec, Soewarta Kosen, Heidi J. Larson, Anders Larsson, Janet L. Leasher, Janni Leung, Yongmei Li, Paulo A. Lotufo, Raimundas Lunevicius, Hassan Magdy Abd El Razek, Reza Majdzadeh, Azeem Majeed, Peter Memiah, Ziad A. Memish, Walter Mendoza, Francis Apolinary Mhimbira, Ted R. Miller, Philip B. Mitchell, Lorenzo Monasta, Carla Makhlouf Obermeyer, In-Hwan Oh, Bolajoko Olubukunola Olusanya, Alberto Ortiz, Eun-Kee Park, Matti Parry, David M. Pereira, Michael Robert Phillips, Farshad Pourmalek, Mostafa Qorbani, Amir Radfar, Anwar Rafay, Vafa Rahimi-Movaghar, Rajesh Kumar Rai, Saleem M. Rana, David Laith Rawaf, Salman Rawaf, Nicola Reavley, Andre M. N. Renzaho, Satar Rezaei, Mohammad Sadegh Rezai, Diego Rios-Zertuche, Gholamreza Roshandel, Dietrich Rothenbacher, Mahdi Safdarian, Sare Safi, Saeid Safiri, Mohammad Ali Sahraian, Payman Salamati, Abdallah M. Samy, Juan Ramon Sanabria, Damian Santomauro, Benn Sartorius, David C. Schwebel, Soraya Seedat, Sadaf G. Sepanlou, Tesfaye Setegn, Amira Shaheen, Masood Ali Shaikh, Rahman Shiri, Inga Dora Sigfusdottir, Jasvinder A. Singh, Badr H. A. Sobaih, Chandrashekhar T. Sreeramareddy, Rizwan Suliankatchi Abdulkader, Arash Tehrani-Banihashemi, Mohamad-Hani Temsah, Abdullah Sulieman Terkawi, Alan J. Thomson, Marcello Tonelli, Roman Topor-Madry, Bach Xuan Tran, Kingsley Nnanna Ukwaja, Olalekan A. Uthman, Tommi Vasankari, Narayanaswamy Venketasubramanian, Vasiliy Victorovich Vlassov, Stein Emil Vollset, Elisabete Weiderpass, Robert G. Weintraub, Andrea Werdecker, Harvey A. Whiteford, Yuichiro Yano, Mehdi Yaseri, Naohiro Yonemoto, Mustafa Z. Younis, Chuanhua Yu, Aisha O. Jumaan, Theo Vos, Simon I. I. Hay, Mohsen Naghavi, George C. Patton, Christopher J. L. Murray, Ali H. Mokdad

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Burden of lower respiratory infections in the Eastern Mediterranean Region between 1990 and 2015: findings from the Global Burden of Disease 2015 study

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