List of works by Rafael Lozano

75 The rising global burden of road injuries

A Performance Analysis of Public Expenditure on Maternal Health in Mexico

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A comparative risk assessment of burden of disease and injury attributable to 67 risk factors and risk factor clusters in 21 regions, 1990-2010: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2010.

scientific article published in December 2012

A comparison of maternal mortality estimates from GBD 2013 and WHO.

scientific article published on 19 December 2014

A composite metric for assessing data on mortality and causes of death: the vital statistics performance index

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A global assessment of civil registration and vital statistics systems: monitoring data quality and progress

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A shortened verbal autopsy instrument for use in routine mortality surveillance systems

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A systematic analysis of global anemia burden from 1990 to 2010.

scientific article published on 02 December 2013

AIDS-related early mortality in Mexico between 2008 and 2012

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Administrative efficiency in the Mexican Fund for the Prevention of Catastrophic Expenditures in Health

scientific article published in September 2016

Algorithms for enhancing public health utility of national causes-of-death data

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Are well functioning civil registration and vital statistics systems associated with better health outcomes?

scientific article published on 05 May 2015

Assessing quality of medical death certification: Concordance between gold standard diagnosis and underlying cause of death in selected Mexican hospitals

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Assessing the effect of the 2001-06 Mexican health reform: an interim report card

scientific article published on November 2006

Benchmarking of performance of Mexican states with effective coverage

scientific article published on November 2006

Breast and cervical cancer in 187 countries between 1980 and 2010: a systematic analysis

scientific article published on 14 September 2011

Breast cancer in Mexico: a pressing priority

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Breast cancer in Mexico: an urgent priority

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Breast cancer trends in Latin America and the Caribbean

scientific article published on January 2009

Burden of disease in Brazil, 1990-2016: a systematic subnational analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2016

scientific article published in The Lancet

Burden of disease in Latin America

scientific article published in January 2011

Burden of disease, injuries, risk factors and challenges for the health system in Mexico

scientific article published in December 2013

Challenges of measuring the Healthcare Access and Quality Index - Authors' reply

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Civil registration and vital statistics: progress in the data revolution for counting and accountability

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Comments on the article "Evaluation of maternal mortality under-reporting in the heights of Chiapas using the RAMOS and modified RAMOS strategies" by Graciela Freyermuth et al.

scientific article published in September 2010

Common values in assessing health outcomes from disease and injury: disability weights measurement study for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2010.

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Comparative Estimates of Crude and Effective Coverage of Measles Immunization in Low-Resource Settings: Findings from Salud Mesoamérica 2015

scientific article published on 2 July 2015

Comparison of family-planning service quality reported by adolescents and young adult women in Mexico

scientific article published on 23 March 2016

Control of hypertension with medication: a comparative analysis of national surveys in 20 countries

scientific article published on 30 September 2013

Correcting for misclassified HIV/aids deaths in Mexico: Retrospective analysis, 1983-2012

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Correction: Robust metrics for assessing the performance of different verbal autopsy cause assignment methods in validation studies

scientific article published on 10 April 2014

Department of Error

scientific article published on 07 November 2017

Disability-adjusted life years (DALYs) for 291 diseases and injuries in 21 regions, 1990-2010: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2010

scientific article (publication date: 15 December 2012)

Dissonant health transition in the states of Mexico, 1990-2013: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2013.

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Eficiencia de los recursos humanos en salud: una aproximación a su análisis en México

scientific article published on 01 September 2016

Epidemiologic study and control of Taenia solium infections with praziquantel in a rural village of Mexico

scientific article published on October 1991

Estimates of neonatal morbidities and disabilities at regional and global levels for 2010: introduction, methods overview, and relevant findings from the Global Burden of Disease study

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Estimating population cause-specific mortality fractions from in-hospital mortality: validation of a new method

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Estimating the distribution of external causes in hospital data from injury diagnosis

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Evaluating causes of death and morbidity in Iran, global burden of diseases, injuries, and risk factors study 2010.

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Exploring the determinants of unsafe abortion: improving the evidence base in Mexico

scientific article published on 15 December 2009

Exposing misclassified HIV/AIDS deaths in South Africa

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Forecasting life expectancy, years of life lost, and all-cause and cause-specific mortality for 250 causes of death: reference and alternative scenarios for 2016–40 for 195 countries and territories

scientific article published in The Lancet

GBD 2010: a multi-investigator collaboration for global comparative descriptive epidemiology

scientific article published in December 2012

GBD 2010: design, definitions, and metrics

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Gaps in the continuum of care during pregnancy and delivery in Mexico

scientific article published in January 2013

Global Overview of the Epidemiology of Atherosclerotic Cardiovascular Disease

scientific article published on 29 June 2015

Global and regional mortality from 235 causes of death for 20 age groups in 1990 and 2010: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2010

journal article published in 2012

Global malaria mortality between 1980 and 2010: a systematic analysis

scientific article published on 4 February 2012

Global, regional, and national comparative risk assessment of 79 behavioural, environmental and occupational, and metabolic risks or clusters of risks in 188 countries, 1990-2013: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2013

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Global, regional, and national disability-adjusted life years (DALYs) for 306 diseases and injuries and healthy life expectancy (HALE) for 188 countries, 1990-2013: quantifying the epidemiological transition

journal article published in 2015

Global, regional, and national levels and causes of maternal mortality during 1990-2013: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2013.

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Health Effects of Overweight and Obesity in 195 Countries over 25 Years

scientific article published on 12 June 2017

Health and wealth in Mesoamerica: findings from Salud Mesomérica 2015.

scientific article published on 14 July 2015

Health effects of dietary risks in 195 countries, 1990–2017: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017

scientific article published in April 2019

Health transition in Iran toward chronic diseases based on results of Global Burden of Disease 2010.

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Hospitals by day, dispensaries by night: Hourly fluctuations of maternal mortality within Mexican health institutions, 2010-2014.

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Improvement of child survival in Mexico: the diagonal approach

scientific article published on December 2006

Improvement of child survival in Mexico: the diagonal approach

scientific article published in January 2007

Improving performance of the Tariff Method for assigning causes of death to verbal autopsies

scientific article published on 8 December 2015

Improving the comparability of diabetes mortality statistics in the U.S. and Mexico

scientific article published on 24 October 2007

Improving the public health utility of global cardiovascular mortality data: the rise of ischemic heart disease

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Improving the quality of road injury statistics by using regression models to redistribute ill-defined events

scientific article published on 13 April 2012

Increased educational attainment and its effect on child mortality in 175 countries between 1970 and 2009: a systematic analysis

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Liver cirrhosis mortality in 187 countries between 1980 and 2010: a systematic analysis

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Low birthweight in Mexico: a systematic review

scientific article published on January 2013

Management of diabetes and associated cardiovascular risk factors in seven countries: a comparison of data from national health examination surveys

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Maternal mortality estimates - Authors' reply

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Maternal mortality for 181 countries, 1980-2008: a systematic analysis of progress towards Millennium Development Goal 5.

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Measuring the adequacy of antenatal health care: a national cross-sectional study in Mexico

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Mexico's path towards the Sustainable Development Goal for health: an assessment of the feasibility of reducing premature mortality by 40% by 2030.

scientific article published on 30 August 2016

Modeling causes of death: an integrated approach using CODEm

scientific article published on 6 January 2012

Mortality from HIV in the Global Burden of Disease study – Authors' reply

scientific article published in The Lancet

Obstetric care and method of delivery in Mexico: results from the 2012 National Health and Nutrition Survey

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Overcoming social segregation in health care in Latin America

scientific article published on 15 October 2014

Performance of InterVA for assigning causes of death to verbal autopsies: multisite validation study using clinical diagnostic gold standards

scientific article published on 05 August 2011

Performance of physician-certified verbal autopsies: multisite validation study using clinical diagnostic gold standards

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Population Health Metrics Research Consortium gold standard verbal autopsy validation study: design, implementation, and development of analysis datasets

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Population health and burden of disease profile of Iran among 20 countries in the region: from Afghanistan to Qatar and Lebanon

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Prevention of cardiovascular disease in high-risk individuals in low-income and middle-income countries: health effects and costs

scientific article published on 11 December 2007

Progress on the Millenium Development Goals 4 and 5 in Mesoamerica

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Progress towards Millennium Development Goal 4 – Authors' reply

scientific article published in The Lancet

Progress towards Millennium Development Goals 4 and 5 on maternal and child mortality: an updated systematic analysis

scientific article published on 19 September 2011

RETRACTED: Maintaining rigor in research: flaws in a recent study and a reanalysis of the relationship between state abortion laws and maternal mortality in Mexico

retracted scientific article published on 18 August 2016

Reclassifying causes of obstetric death in Mexico: a repeated cross-sectional study

scientific article published on 2 May 2016

Robust metrics for assessing the performance of different verbal autopsy cause assignment methods in validation studies

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Salud Mesoamérica 2015 Initiative: design, implementation, and baseline findings

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Setting maternal mortality targets for the SDGs - Authors' reply

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Simplified Symptom Pattern Method for verbal autopsy analysis: multisite validation study using clinical diagnostic gold standards

scientific article published on 04 August 2011

The Global Burden of Cancer 2013

scientific article published in July 2015

The Invisible Burden of Violence Against Girls and Young Women in Mexico: 1990 to 2015

The burden of HIV: insights from the Global Burden of Disease Study 2010

scientific article published on August 2013

The burden of cancer in Mexico, 1990-2013.

scientific article published on April 2016

The burden of musculoskeletal disorders in Mexico at national and state level, 1990–2016: estimates from the global burden of disease study 2016

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The global burden of disease study 2010: interpretation and implications for the neglected tropical diseases

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The global burden of injuries

scientific article published on 01 April 2000

The relationship of age and place of delivery with postpartum contraception prior to discharge in Mexico: A retrospective cohort study.

scientific article published on 29 January 2016

The role of supply-side characteristics of services in AIDS mortality in Mexico

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Towards a meaningful measure of universal health coverage for the next billion

scientific article published on 13 December 2017

Towards an Inclusive and Evidence-Based Definition of the Maternal Mortality Ratio: An Analysis of the Distribution of Time after Delivery of Maternal Deaths in Mexico, 2010-2013.

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Towards universal civil registration and vital statistics systems: the time is now.

scientific article published on 05 May 2015

UK health performance: findings of the Global Burden of Disease Study 2010.

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Unintentional injuries in Mexico, 1990-2017: findings from the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017

scientific article published on 01 April 2020

Use of performance metrics for the measurement of universal coverage for maternal care in Mexico.

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Using verbal autopsy to measure causes of death: the comparative performance of existing methods

scientific article published on 09 January 2014

Validating estimates of prevalence of non-communicable diseases based on household surveys: the symptomatic diagnosis study

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Women and Health: the key for sustainable development

scientific article published on 04 June 2015