The four papers in the Series provide the evidence base for integrated action on these two illnesses and include new data on burden, epidemiology, interventions that work, and the financial cost of ending preventable deaths from childhood diarrhoea and pneumonia by 2025.
Addressing the rising burden of injuries with competing healthy priorities and without robust data on injury burden and risk factors, is a major challenge for developing countries.
The need for good quality comparable data on disease burden and risk, to aid planning and implementation of prevention and control strategies for NCDs, is greatest among low- and middle-income countries [ 19].
Lack of follow-up studies prevents Argentina, Chile and Uruguay from assessing local risk estimates, obtaining reliable data on CVD burden and implementing risk factor stratification and management strategies at a population level.
No up to date data on the burden and distribution of Chagas disease exist for Mexico, Peru, Colombia, Costa Rica, and much of the Amazonian region.
In a time of severe financial constraints and in the absence of strong data on influenza burden and effectiveness of vaccination, it is difficult for many EU/EEA countries to prioritise influenza prevention over other perceived more pressing health issues.
Systematic synthesis of data on disease burden and existing coverage of interventions relevant to diarrhoea, malaria and HIV prevention.
The Global Burden of Diseases studies, which are acknowledged internationally as comprehensive reports in health metrics, morbidity and mortality, have yet to present any data on the burden and disability of CH [11].
In the hope, that the NCR will provide data on burden of cancer in Sudan allowing policy makers to implement cancer control measures and prevention strategies.
Among those studies stating the source of epidemiological data in their analysis (n = 17), 14 used available data on disease burden and mortality from the country or region the analysis was located in and three articles used this type of data from developed countries.
