@article{discovery1462383, volume = {385}, number = {9963}, month = {January}, author = {II Abubakar and T Tillmann and A Banerjee}, note = {{\copyright} 2015 Elsevier B.V. This manuscript is made available under a Creative Commons Attribution Non-commercial Non-derivative 4.0 International license (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0). This license allows you to share, copy, distribute and transmit the work for personal and non-commercial use providing author and publisher attribution is clearly stated. Further details about CC BY licenses are available at http://creativecommons.org/ licenses/by/4.0. Access may be initially restricted by the publisher.}, title = {Global, regional, and national age-sex specific all-cause and cause-specific mortality for 240 causes of death, 1990-2013: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2013}, year = {2015}, journal = {Lancet}, pages = {117 -- 171}, keywords = {Adolescent, Adult, Aged, Aged, 80 and over, Cause of Death, Child, Child Mortality, Child, Preschool, Databases, Factual, Female, Global Health, Humans, Infant, Infant, Newborn, Life Expectancy, Life Tables, Male, Middle Aged, Models, Statistical, Mortality, Sex Distribution, Young Adult}, url = {https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/1462383/}, abstract = {Up-to-date evidence on levels and trends for age-sex-specific all-cause and cause-specific mortality is essential for the formation of global, regional, and national health policies. In the Global Burden of Disease Study 2013 (GBD 2013) we estimated yearly deaths for 188 countries between 1990, and 2013. We used the results to assess whether there is epidemiological convergence across countries.} }