Background There is considerable international interest in exploiting the potential of digital
solutions to enhance the quality and safety of health care. Implementations of transformative …

Taiwan adopted a national health insurance system in 1995. It is a government administered
insurancebased national healthcare system. Although, like the UK, Taiwan has a single …

Availability of health technology is inversely related to health need. Although health-care
systems in high-income countries make extensive use of technology, people in the world's …

Background Health system planning requires careful assessment of chronic kidney disease
(CKD) epidemiology, but data for morbidity and mortality of this disease are scarce or non-…

Background Stroke is a leading cause of mortality and disability worldwide and the economic
costs of treatment and post-stroke care are substantial. The Global Burden of Diseases, …

Background The scale-up of tobacco control, especially after the adoption of the Framework
Convention for Tobacco Control, is a major public health success story. Nonetheless, …

Background Comparable data on the global and country-specific burden of neurological
disorders and their trends are crucial for health-care planning and resource allocation. The …

Importance The increasing burden due to cancer and other noncommunicable diseases
poses a threat to human development, which has resulted in global political commitments …

Background Previous attempts to characterise the burden of chronic respiratory diseases
have focused only on specific disease conditions, such as chronic obstructive pulmonary …

Background Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and asthma are common
diseases with a heterogeneous distribution worldwide. Here, we present methods and disease …