About the Authors
- Colin D Mathers
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*To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: mathersc@who.int
Affiliation Evidence and Information for Policy Cluster, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland
- Dejan Loncar
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Affiliation Evidence and Information for Policy Cluster, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland
Competing Interests
The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.
Author Contributions
CDM designed the study. CDM and DL analyzed the data. CDM and DL contributed to writing the paper. CDM led the design of the study and was primarily responsible for the burden of disease and population projections and the interpretation of the results. DL was primarily responsible for the preparation and analysis of the input mortality data (data from the WHO mortality database). Both authors participated in the development of the mortality projections under the three scenarios.