• Life expectancy and disease burden in the Nordic countries: results from the Global Burden of Diseases, Injuries, and Risk Factors Study 2017 

      Kisa, Adnan; Knudsen, Ann Kristin; Allebeck, Peter; Tollånes, Mette Christophersen; Skogen, Jens Christoffer; Iburg, Kim Moesgaard; McGrath, John J; Juel, Knud; Agardh, Emilie Elisabet; Arnlöv, Johan; Bjørge, Tone; Carrero, Juan J.; Cederroth, Christopher R; Eggen, Anne Elise; El-Khatib, Ziad; Lycke Ellingsen, Christian; Fereshtehnejad, Seyed-Mohammad; Gissler, Mika; Hadkhale, Kishor; Havmoeller, Rasmus; Johansson, Lars; Juliusson, Petur Benedikt; Kiadaliri, Aliasghar A.; Kisa, Sezer; Lallukka, Tea; Mekonnen, Teferi; Meretoja, Tuomo J.; Meretoja, Atte; Naghavi, Mohsen; Neupane, Subas; Nguyen, Truc Trung; Petzold, Max; Plana-Ripoll, Oleguer; Shiri, Rahman; Sigurvinsdottir, Rannveig; Skirbekk, Vegard; Skou, Søren T; Sigfusdottir, Inga Dora; Steiner, Timothy J.; Sulo, Gerhard; Truelsen, Thomas Clement; Vasankari, Tommi Juhani; Weiderpass, Elisabete; Vollset, Stein Emil; Vos, Theo; Øverland, Simon (Lancet Public Health;Published Online November 20, 2019, Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019)
      Background The Nordic countries have commonalities in gender equality, economy, welfare, and health care, but differ in culture and lifestyle, which might create country-wise health differences. This study compared life ...
    • Mapping age- and sex-specific HIV prevalence in adults in sub-Saharan Africa, 2000-2018 

      Haeuse, Emily; Serfes, Audrey L; Cork, Michael A.; Kisa, Adnan; Yang, Mingyou; Abbastabar, Hedayat; Hay, Simon I.; Kisa, Sezer; Ayanore, Martin Amogre; Didarloo, Alireza; Olakunde, Babayemi Oluwaseun; Subsaharan Africa HIV Prev. Co, Local Burden of Disease (BMC Medicine;20, Article number: 488 (2022), Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)
      Background: Human immunodefciency virus and acquired immune defciency syndrome (HIV/AIDS) is still among the leading causes of disease burden and mortality in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), and the world is not on track to meet ...
    • Mapping development and health effects of cooking with solid fuels in low-income and middle-income countries, 2000–18: a geospatial modelling study 

      Frostad, Joseph Jon; Nguyen, QuynhAnh P.; Baumann, Mathew M.; Blacker, Brigette F.; Kisa, Adnan; Marczak, Laurie B.; Deshpande, Aniruddha; Wiens, Kirsten E.; LeGrand, Kate E.; Kisa, Sezer; Johnson, Kimberly B.; Hay, Simon I.; Household Air Pol. Collab, Local Burden of Disease (The Lancet Global Health;Volume 10, Issue 10, Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022-09-13)
      Background: More than 3 billion people do not have access to clean energy and primarily use solid fuels to cook. Use of solid fuels generates household air pollution, which was associated with more than 2 million deaths ...
    • Mapping geographical inequalities in access to drinkingwater and sanitation facilities in low-income andmiddle-income countries, 2000–17 

      Kisa, Adnan; Reiner Jr, Robert C; Deshpande, Aniruddha; Miller-Petrie, Molly K.; Kisa, Sezer; Lindstedt, Paulina A; WaSH Collaborators, Local Burden of Disease (The Lancet Global Health;Volume 8, Issue 9, September 2020, Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020-08-19)
      Background: Universal access to safe drinking water and sanitation facilities is an essential human right, recognised in the Sustainable Development Goals as crucial for preventing disease and improving human wellbeing. ...
    • Mapping geographical inequalities in childhood diarrhoeal morbidity and mortality in low-income and middle-income countries, 2000–17: analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017 

      Kisa, Adnan; Reiner Jr, Robert C; Hay, Simon I.; Diarrhoea Collaborators, Local Burden of Disease; Kisa, Sezer; Murray, Christopher J L (Lancet;, Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020-05-06)
      Background Across low-income and middle-income countries (LMICs), one in ten deaths in children younger than 5 years is attributable to diarrhoea. The substantial between-country variation in both diarrhoea incidence ...
    • Mapping geographical inequalities in oral rehydrationtherapy coverage in low-income and middle-incomecountries, 2000–17 

      Kisa, Adnan; Reiner Jr, Robert C; Hay, Simon I.; Kisa, Sezer; Diarrhoea Collaborators, Local Burden of Disease (The Lancet Global Health;Volume 8, Issue 9, September 2020, Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020-08-19)
      Background: Oral rehydration solution (ORS) is a form of oral rehydration therapy (ORT) for diarrhoea that has the potential to drastically reduce child mortality; yet, according to UNICEF estimates, less than half of ...
    • Mapping local patterns of childhood overweight and wasting in low- and middle-income countries between 2000 and 2017 

      Kisa, Sezer; Malnutrition Collaborators, LBD Double Burden (Nature Medicine;, Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020-04-20)
      A double burden of malnutrition occurs when individuals, household members or communities experience both undernutrition and overweight. Here, we show geospatial estimates of overweight and wasting prevalence among children ...
    • Mapping routine measles vaccination inlow- and middle-income countries 

      Kisa, Adnan; Vaccine Coverage Collaborators, Local Burden of Disease; Sbarra, Alyssa N.; Rolfe, Sam; Nguyen, Jason Q.; Earl, Lucas; Galles, Natalie C.; Marks, Ashley; Kisa, Sezer; Abbas, Kaja M.; Hay, Simon I.; Lim, Stephen S.; Mokdad, Ali H. (Nature;589 (2021), Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020-12-16)
      The safe, highly efective measles vaccine has been recommended globally since 1974, yet in 2017 there were more than 17 million cases of measles and 83,400 deaths in children under 5 years old, and more than 99% of both ...
    • Mapping subnational HIV mortality in sixLatin American countries with incompletevital registration systems 

      Kisa, Adnan; Hay, Simon I.; Dwyer-Lindgren, Laura; Cork, Michael A; Henry, Nathaniel J.; Watson, Stefanie; Kisa, Sezer; HIV Collaborators, Local Burden of Disease; Croneberger, Andrew J; Baumann, Mathew; Yang, Mingyou; Serfes, Audrey L (BMC Medicine;19, Article number: 4 (2021), Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021-01-08)
      Background: Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) remains a public health priority in Latin America. While the burden of HIV is historically concentrated in urban areas and high-risk groups, subnational estimates that cover ...
    • Measuring routine childhood vaccination coverage in 204 countries and territories, 1980–2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2020, Release 1 

      Galles, Natalie C.; Liu, Patrick Y.; Updike, Rachel L; Kisa, Sezer; Kisa, Adnan; Collaborators, Vaccine Coverage (The Lancet;Volume 398, Issue 10299, Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021-07-14)
      Background: Measuring routine childhood vaccination is crucial to inform global vaccine policies and programme implementation, and to track progress towards targets set by the Global Vaccine Action Plan (GVAP) and Immunization ...
    • Mental health challenges of young labor migrants from the healthcare professionals perspective: Lessons learned from a multi‐country meeting 

      Princeton, Daisy M; Bregård, Ida Marie; Annion, Marianne; Shooghi, Gine; Rom, Gitte; Örlygsdóttir, Brynja; Sigurðardóttir, Hildur; Kuismin, Riitta; Korhonen, Joonas; Kisa, Sezer (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)
      The mental health of young labor immigrants (YLI’s) is a public health issue that has become notably more apparent during the COVID-19 pandemic. It is well established in the literature that most YLI’s are young and healthy ...
    • The overlapping burden of the three leading causes of disability and death in sub-Saharan African children 

      Reiner, Robert C., Jr; Welgan, Catherine A.; Troeger, Christopher E.; Kisa, Adnan; Baumann, Mathew M.; Weiss, Daniel J.; Kisa, Sezer; Deshpande, Aniruddha; Hay, Simon I.; Burden Collaborators, LBD Triple (Nature Communications;13, Article number: 7457 (2022), Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022-12-06)
      Despite substantial declines since 2000, lower respiratory infections (LRIs), diarrhoeal diseases, and malaria remain among the leading causes of nonfatal and fatal disease burden for children under 5 years of age (under ...
    • Perceptions and predictors of dating violence among nursing and midwifery students 

      Kisa, Sezer; Zeyneloglu, Simge (Journal of Advanced Nursing;75(10), Academic article, 2019)
      Aims: To determine the prevalence and predictors of victimization and perpetration of dating violence among nursing and midwifery students Background: Previous studies reported that nurses lack the knowledge, attitudes, ...
    • Prevalence and attributable health burden of chronicrespiratory diseases, 1990–2017: a systematic analysis forthe Global Burden of Disease Study 2017 

      Kisa, Adnan; Disease Collaborators, GBD Chronic Respiratory; Soriano, Joan B.; Kendrick, Parkes J; Vos, Theo; Kisa, Sezer; Naghavi, Mohsen; Mokdad, Ali H. (Lancet Respiratory Medicine;Volume 8, Issue 6, Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020-06-01)
      Summary Background Previous attempts to characterise the burden of chronic respiratory diseases have focused only on specific disease conditions, such as chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) or asthma. In this ...
    • Prevalence of Fatigue and Associated Factors Among Cancer Patients Attending Tikur Anbessa Specialized Hospital, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia 

      Nugusse, Teka; Lemlem, Semarya Berhe; Deressa, Jembere; Kisa, Sezer (Cancer Management and Research;volume 13, Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021-02-24)
      Background: Fatigue is a subjective and distressing symptom in cancer patients and has profound effects on daily life. The rates of fatigue during treatment are reported to be 25– 90%. Its causes are secondary to their ...
    • Prevalence, years lived with disability, and trends in anaemia burden by severity and cause, 1990–2021: findings from the Global Burden of Disease Study 2021 

      Anaemia Collaborators, GBD 2021; Dadras, Omid; Kisa, Sezer; Pereira, Gavin Francis; Gardner, William M.; Razo, Christian; McHugh, Theresa A; Hagins, Hailey; Vilchis-Tella, Victor M.; Hennessy, C; Taylor, Heather Jean; Perumal, Nandita; Fuller, Kia; Cercy, Kelly M.; Zoeckler, Leo; Chen, Catherine S.; Lim, Stephen S; Aali, Amirali; Abate, Kalkidan Hasen; Abd-Elsalam, Sherief; Abdurehman, Ame Mehadi; Abede, Getachew; Abidi, Hassan; Aboagye, Richard Gyan; Abolhassani, Hassan; Aboye, Girma Beressa Aboye; Abtew, Yonas Derso; Accrombessi, Manfred Mario Kokou; Adane, Denberu Eshetie Adane; Adane, Tigist Demssew; Addo, Isaac Yeboah; Adesina, Miracle Ayomikun; Adeyinka, Daniel Adedayo; Adnani, Qorinah Estiningtyas Sakilah; Afzal, Muhammad Sohail; Afzal, Saira; Agustina, Rina; Ahinkorah, Bright Opoku; Ahmad, Aqeel; Ahmad, Sajjad ; Ahmadi, Sepideh; Ahmed, Ayman; Rashid, Tarik Ahmed; Aiman, Wajeeha; Ajami, Marjan; Akbarialiabad, Hossein; Alahdab, Fares; Al-Aly, Ziyad; Alam, Nazmul; Alemayehu, Astawus ; Alhassan, Robert Kaba (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)
      Background Anaemia is a major health problem worldwide. Global estimates of anaemia burden are crucial for developing appropriate interventions to meet current international targets for disease mitigation. We describe the ...
    • Request Global age-sex-specific mortality, life expectancy, and population estimates in 204 countries and territories and 811 subnational locations, 1950–2021, and the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic: a comprehensive demographic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2021 

      Schumacher, Austin E; Kyu, Hmwe Hmwe; Kisa, Adnan; Lim, Stephen S.; Kisa, Sezer; Murray, Christopher J L; Demographics Collaborators, GBD 2021 (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2024)
      Background Estimates of demographic metrics are crucial to assess levels and trends of population health outcomes. The profound impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on populations worldwide has underscored the need for timely ...
    • Subnational mapping of HIV incidence and mortality among individuals aged 15–49 years in sub-Saharan Africa, 2000–18: a modelling study 

      Kisa, Adnan; VanderHeide, John D; Perkins, Samantha; Cook, Aubrey J; Kopec, Jacek A.; Mokdad, Ali H.; Kisa, Sezer; Naghav, Mohsen; Patton, George C.; Tópor-Madry, Roman; Hay, Simon I.; Dwyer-Lindgren, Laura (The Lancet HIV;volume 8, issue 6, Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021-06)
      Background High-resolution estimates of HIV burden across space and time provide an important tool for tracking and monitoring the progress of prevention and control efforts and assist with improving the precision and ...
    • Trends in prevalence of blindness and distance and nearvision impairment over 30 years: an analysis for the GlobalBurden of Disease Study 

      Kisa, Adnan; Bourne, Rupert RA; Steinmetz, Jaimie D; Flaxman, Seth R; Briant, Paul Svitil; Taylor, Hugh R; Kisa, Sezer; Vos, Theo; West, Sheila K; Jonas, Jost B. (The Lancet Global Health;, Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020-12-01)
      Background To contribute to the WHO initiative, VISION 2020: The Right to Sight, an assessment of global vision impairment in 2020 and temporal change is needed. We aimed to extensively update estimates of global vision ...
    • Under‐reporting of COVID ‐19 cases in Turkey 

      Kisa, Sezer; Kisa, Adnan (International Journal of Health Planning and Management;Volume 35, Issue 5, September 2020, Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020-08-03)
      Having an accurate account of the number of national COVID-19 cases is essential for understanding the national and global burden of the disease and managing COVID-19 prevention and control efforts. There is also substantial ...