A premature mortality target for the SDG for health is ageist - Authors' reply

Affiliations

¹ Department of Global Public Health and Primary Care, University of Bergen, Bergen, 5018, Norway. Electronic address: ole.norheim@igs.uib.no.
² Centre for Global Health Research, St Michael's Hospital, University of Toronto, ON, Canada.
³ Ministry of Health, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
⁴ Global Health Sciences, University of California, San Francisco, CA, USA.
⁵ Nuffield Department of Population Health Clinical Trial Service Unit and Epidemiological Studies Unit, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK. Electronic address: rpeto@ctsu.ox.ac.uk.

Comment

Ole Frithjof Norheim et al. Lancet. 2015.

. 2015 May 30;385(9983):2148-9.

doi: 10.1016/S0140-6736(15)61017-0.

¹ Department of Global Public Health and Primary Care, University of Bergen, Bergen, 5018, Norway. Electronic address: ole.norheim@igs.uib.no.
² Centre for Global Health Research, St Michael's Hospital, University of Toronto, ON, Canada.
³ Ministry of Health, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
⁴ Global Health Sciences, University of California, San Francisco, CA, USA.
⁵ Nuffield Department of Population Health Clinical Trial Service Unit and Epidemiological Studies Unit, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK. Electronic address: rpeto@ctsu.ox.ac.uk.

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Avoiding 40% of the premature deaths in each country, 2010-30: review of national mortality trends to help quantify the UN sustainable development goal for health.
Norheim OF, Jha P, Admasu K, Godal T, Hum RJ, Kruk ME, Gómez-Dantés O, Mathers CD, Pan H, Sepúlveda J, Suraweera W, Verguet S, Woldemariam AT, Yamey G, Jamison DT, Peto R. Norheim OF, et al. Lancet. 2015 Jan 17;385(9964):239-52. doi: 10.1016/S0140-6736(14)61591-9. Epub 2014 Sep 18. Lancet. 2015. PMID: 25242039
A premature mortality target for the SDG for health is ageist.
Lloyd-Sherlock P, Ebrahim S, McKee M, Prince M. Lloyd-Sherlock P, et al. Lancet. 2015 May 30;385(9983):2147-8. doi: 10.1016/S0140-6736(15)61016-9. Lancet. 2015. PMID: 26068259 No abstract available.