ArticlePLoS medicine2010
The imperfect world of global health estimates.
Article in PLoS medicine, 2010. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 37 papers, 4 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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Who cites it
37 citing papers in PubMed, 4 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
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- Guidelines for Accurate and Transparent Health Estimates Reporting: the GATHER statement.PLoS medicine · 2016Guideline
- Medical causes of admissions to hospital among adults in Africa: a systematic review.Global health action · 2013Pooled it
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- Computer assisted verbal autopsy: comparing large language models to physicians for assigning causes to 6939 deaths in Sierra Leone from 2019-2022.BMC medicine · 2025Article
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- Top 10 Resources in Global Surgery.Global health, science and practice · 2020Article
- National, regional, and worldwide estimates of low birthweight in 2015, with trends from 2000: a systematic analysis.The Lancet. Global health · 2019Article
- Metric partnerships: global burden of disease estimates within the World Bank, the World Health Organisation and the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation.Wellcome open research · 2019Article
- Patterns of adult body mass in sub-Saharan Africa.Global health action · 2018Article
- Twelve-year mortality in adults initiating antiretroviral therapy in South Africa.Journal of the International AIDS Society · 2017Article
- Validation of verbal autopsy: determination of cause of deaths in Malaysia 2013.BMC public health · 2017Article
- Surveillance of HIV assisted partner services using routine health information systems in Kenya.BMC medical informatics and decision making · 2016Article
- Using routine health information systems for well-designed health evaluations in low- and middle-income countries.Health policy and planning · 2016Article
- A Successful Failure: Missing the MDG4 Target for Under-Five Mortality in South Africa.PLoS medicine · 2015Article
- Understanding maternal mortality from top-down and bottom-up perspectives: Case of Tigray Region, Ethiopia.Journal of global health · 2015Article
- Estimated need for surgery worldwide based on prevalence of diseases: a modelling strategy for the WHO Global Health Estimate.The Lancet. Global health · 2015Article
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