About the Authors
- Ziad Obermeyer
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Affiliations Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America, Department of Emergency Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
- Julie Knoll Rajaratnam
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* E-mail: jrajarat@u.washington.edu
Affiliation Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America
- Chang H. Park
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Affiliations Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, New York, United States of America
- Emmanuela Gakidou
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Affiliation Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America
- Margaret C. Hogan
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Affiliation Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America
- Alan D. Lopez
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Affiliation School of Population Health, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
- Christopher J. L. Murray
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Affiliation Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Competing Interests
Alan Lopez is on the Editorial Board of PLoS Medicine.
Author Contributions
ICMJE criteria for authorship read and met: ZO JKR CHP EG MCH ADL CJLM. Agree with the manuscript's results and conclusions: ZO JKR CHP EG MCH ADL CJLM. Designed the experiments/the study: ZO JKR EG ADL CJLM. Analyzed the data: ZO JKR CHP ADL CJLM. Wrote the first draft of the paper: ZO. Contributed to the writing of the paper: ZO JKR CHP EG MCH ADL CJLM.