Kalpana Balakrishnan

No ORCID on file · 2 papers in corpus
review 2022
Pollution and health: a progress update
The Lancet. Planetary health ·doi:10.1016/s2542-5196(22)00090-0

The Lancet Commission on pollution and health reported that pollution was responsible for 9 million premature deaths in 2015, making it the world's largest environmental risk factor for disease and premature death. We have now updated this …

other 2015
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
Lancet (London, England) ·doi:10.1016/s0140-6736(15)61340-x

BACKGROUND: The Global Burden of Disease Study 2013 (GBD 2013) aims to bring together all available epidemiological data using a coherent measurement framework, standardised estimation methods, and transparent data sources to enable compari…