Health in times of uncertainty in the eastern Mediterranean region, 1990-2013: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2013.

• Mokdad AH Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA. Electronic address: mokdaa@uw.edu.
• Forouzanfar MH Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA.
• Daoud F Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA.
• El Bcheraoui C Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA.
• Moradi-Lakeh M Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA; Department of Community Medicine, Preventive Medicine and Public Health Research Center, Iran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.
• Khalil I Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA.
• Afshin A Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA.
• Tuffaha M Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA.
• Charara R Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA.
• Barber RM Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA.
• Wagner J Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA.
• Cercy K Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA.
• Kravitz H Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA.
• Coates MM Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA.
• Robinson M Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA.
• Estep K Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA.
• Steiner C Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA.
• Jaber S Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA.
• Mokdad AA Department of Surgery, Division of Surgical Oncology, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX, USA.
• O'Rourke KF Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA.
• Chew A Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA.
• Kim P Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA.
• El Razek MM Aswan University Hospital, Aswan Faculty of Medicine, Aswan, Egypt.
• Abdalla S Sudanese Public Health Consultancy Group, Solihull, UK.
• Abd-Allah F Department of Neurology, Cairo University, Cairo, Egypt.
• Abraham JP Family Medicine Residency Program at California Hospital, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA; Institute for Global Health, Harvard University, Boston, MA, USA.
• Abu-Raddad LJ Infectious Disease Epidemiology Group, Weill Cornell Medical College in Qatar, Doha, Qatar.
• Abu-Rmeileh NM Institute of Community and Public Health, Birzeit University, Ramallah, Palestine.
• Al-Nehmi AA Ministry of Health, Sana'a, Yemen.
• Akanda AS University of Rhode Island, Kingston, RI, USA.
• Al Ahmadi H Majlis Al Shura, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
• Al Khabouri MJ Ministry of Health, Muscat, Oman.
• Al Lami FH College of Medicine, University of Baghdad, Baghdad, Iraq.
• Al Rayess ZA The Saudi Center for Evidence Based Healthcare, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
• Alasfoor D Ministry of Health, Muscat, Oman.
• AlBuhairan FS King Abdullah Specialized Children's Hospital, King Saud bin Abdulaziz University for Health Sciences, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia; King Abdullah International Medical Research Center, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
• Aldhahri SF King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia; King Fahad Medical City, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
• Alghnam S King Abdullah International Medical Research Center, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia; Department of Health Policy and Management, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD, USA.
• Alhabib S King Abdullah Bin Abdulaziz University Hospital, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
• Al-Hamad N Public Authority for Food and Nutrition, Kuwait.
• Ali R University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.
• Ali SD University of London, London, UK; Institute and Faculty of Actuaries, Oxford, UK.
• Alkhateeb M Pediatric Department, King Khalid University Hospital, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
• AlMazroa MA Kingdom of Saudi Arabia Ministry of Health, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
• Alomari MA Division of Physical Therapy, Department of Rehabilitation Sciences, Irbid, Jordan.
• Al-Raddadi R Kingdom of Saudi Arabia Ministry of Health, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
• Alsharif U Charité Universitätsmedizin, Berlin, Germany.
• Al-Sheyab N Maternal and Child Health Department, Irbid, Jordan.
• Alsowaidi S Department of Internal Medicine, College of Medicine and Health Sciences, United Arab Emirates University, Al-Ain, United Arab Emirates.
• Al-Thani M Supreme Council of Health, Doha, Qatar.
• Altirkawi KA King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
• Amare AT Discipline of Psychiatry, School of Medicine, University of Adelaide, Adelaide, SA, Australia; College of Medicine and Health Sciences, Bahir Dar, Ethiopia.
• Amini H Environmental Health Research Center, Kurdistan University of Medical Sciences, Sanandaj, Iran; Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute, Basel, Switzerland; University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland.
• Ammar W Ministry of Public Health, Beirut, Lebanon.
• Anwari P Kabul, Afghanistan.
• Asayesh H Department of Medical Emergency, School of Paramedic, Qom University of Medical Sciences, Qom, Iran.
• Asghar R South Asian Public Health Forum, Islamabad, Pakistan.
• Assabri AM Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Sana'a University, Sana'a, Yemen.
• Assadi R Mashhad University of Medical Sciences, Mashhad, Iran.
• Bacha U School of Health Sciences, University of Management and Technology, Lahore, Pakistan.
• Badawi A Public Health Agency of Canada, Toronto, ON, Canada.
• Bakfalouni T Ministry of Health, Damascus, Syria.
• Basulaiman MO Kingdom of Saudi Arabia Ministry of Health, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
• Bazargan-Hejazi S Charles R Drew University of Medicine and Science, Los Angeles, CA, USA.
• Bedi N College of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, Jazan, Saudi Arabia.
• Bhakta AR National Institute of Mental Health, Montgomery Village, MD, USA.
• Bhutta ZA Centre of Excellence in Women and Child Health, Karachi, Pakistan; Centre for Global Child Health, The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, ON, Canada.
• Bin Abdulhak AA University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics, Iowa City, IA, USA.
• Boufous S Transport and Road Safety (TARS) Research, University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW, Australia.
• Bourne RR Vision & Eye Research Unit, Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge, UK.
• Danawi H Walden University, Minneapolis, MN, USA.
• Das J Department of Paediatrics and Child Health, Karachi, Pakistan.
• Deribew A Nuffield Department of Medicine, Oxford, UK; KEMRI-Wellcome Trust Research Programme, Kilifi, Kenya.
• Ding EL Harvard T H Chan School of Public Health, Harvard University, Boston, MA, USA.
• Durrani AM National Institutes of Health, Montgomery Village, MD, USA.
• Elshrek Y Food Science Department, Faculty of Agriculture, University of Tripoli, Tripoli, Libya.
• Ibrahim ME Cardiovascular Diseases Control and Prevention Program, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
• Eshrati B Ministry of Health and Medical Education, Tehran, Iran; Arak University of Medical Sciences, Arak, Iran.
• Esteghamati A Endocrinology and Metabolism Research Center, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.
• Faghmous IA London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, UK.
• Farzadfar F Non-Communicable Diseases Research Center, Endocrinology and Metabolism Research Center, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.
• Feigl AB Department of Global Health and Population, Harvard University, Boston, MA, USA.
• Fereshtehnejad SM Department of Neurobiology, Care Sciences and Society, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden.
• Filip I Kaiser Permanente Psychiatry Residency Program, Fontana, CA, USA.
• Fischer F Bielefeld University, Bielefeld, Germany.
• Gankpé FG Leras Afrique, Cotonou, Benin; CHU Hassan II, Fez, Morocco.
• Ginawi I College of Medicine, University of Hail, Hail, Saudi Arabia.
• Gishu MD Haramaya University, Dira Dawa, Ethiopia; Kersa Health and Demographic Surveillance System, Harar, Ethiopia.
• Gupta R West Virginia Bureau for Public Health, Charleston, WV, USA.
• Habash RM Kingdom of Saudi Arabia Ministry of Health, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
• Hafezi-Nejad N Endocrinology and Metabolism Research Center, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.
• Hamadeh RR Arabian Gulf University, Manama, Bahrain.
• Hamdouni H Direction des Soins de Santé de Base, Ministry of Health, Tunis, Tunisia.
• Hamidi S Hamdan Bin Mohammed Smart University, Dubai, United Arab Emirates.
• Harb HL Ministry of Public Health, Beirut, Lebanon.
• Hassanvand MS Center for Air Pollution Research, Institute for Environmental Research, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.
• Hedayati MT Department of Medical Mycology and Parasitology, School of Medicine, Mazndaran University of Medical Sciences, Sari, Iran.
• Heydarpour P Multiple Sclerosis Research Center, Neuroscience Institute, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.
• Hsairi M Salah Azaiz Institute, Tunis, Tunisia.
• Husseini A Qatar University, Doha, Qatar.
• Jahanmehr N School of Public Health, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.
• Jha V The George Institute for Global Health India, University of Oxford, New Delhi, India.
• Jonas JB Ruprecht-Karls-University Heidelberg, Department of Ophthalmology, Medical Faculty Mannheim, Mannheim, Germany.
• Karam NE University of Balamand, Beirut, Lebanon.
• Kasaeian A Non-Communicable Diseases Research Center, Endocrinology and Metabolism Research Center, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran; Hematology-Oncology and Stem Cell Transplantation Research Center, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.
• Kassa NA Haramaya University, Harari, Ethiopia.
• Kaul A Oklahoma State University Center for Health Sciences, Tulsa, OK, USA.
• Khader Y Jordan University of Science and Technology, Irbid, Jordan.
• Khalifa SE Supreme Council of Health, Doha, Qatar.
• Khan EA Health Services Academy, Islamabad, Pakistan.
• Khan G Department of Microbiology and Immunology, College of Medicine and Health Sciences, United Arab Emirates University, Al-Ain, United Arab Emirates.
• Khoja T Health Ministers' Council for Cooperation Council States, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
• Khosravi A Non-Communicable Diseases Research Center, Endocrinology and Metabolism Research Center, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran; Iranian Ministry of Health and Medical Education, Tehran, Iran.
• Kinfu Y Centre for Research & Action in Public Health, Faculty of Health, University of Canberra, Canberra, ACT, Australia.
• Defo BK Department of Demography and Public Health Research Institute, University of Montreal, Montreal, QC, Canada; Department of Social and Preventive Medicine, School of Public Health, University of Montreal, Montreal, QC, Canada.
• Balaji AL Indegene, Bangalore, India.
• Lunevicius R Aintree University Hospital National Health Service Foundation Trust, Liverpool, UK; School of Medicine, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, UK.
• Obermeyer CM Center for Research on Population and Health, Faculty of Health Sciences, American University of Beirut, Beirut, Lebanon.
• Malekzadeh R Digestive Diseases Research Institute, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.
• Mansourian M Department of Health Education and Promotion, School of Health, Iran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.
• Marcenes W Queen Mary University of London, London, UK.
• Farid HM State Welfare Organisation, Tehran, Iran.
• Mehari A Howard University College of Medicine, Washington, DC, USA.
• Mehio-Sibai A Department of Epidemiology & Population Health, Faculty of Health Sciences, American University of Beirut, Beirut, Lebanon.
• Memish ZA Kingdom of Saudi Arabia Ministry of Health, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia; College of Medicine, Alfaisal University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
• Mensah GA Center for Translation Research and Implementation Science, National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, Montgomery Village, MD, USA.
• Mohammad KA University of Salahaddin, Erbil, Iraq.
• Nahas Z Medical Center, American University of Beirut, Beirut, Lebanon.
• Nasher JT Ministry of Public Health and Population, Sana'a, Yemen.
• Nawaz H Southern Illinois University, Springfield, IL, USA.
• Nejjari C Faculty of Medicine, Fez, Morocco.
• Nisar MI Aga Khan University, Karachi, Pakistan.
• Omer SB Emory University, Atlanta, GA, USA.
• Parsaeian M Non-Communicable Diseases Research Center, Endocrinology and Metabolism Research Center, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran; Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.
• Peprah EK National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, Bethesda, MD, USA.
• Pervaiz A Postgraduate Medical Institute, Lahore, Pakistan.
• Pourmalek F University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada.
• Qato DM College of Pharmacy, University of Illinois, Chicago, IL, USA.
• Qorbani M Department of Community Medicine, School of Medicine, Alborz University of Medical Sciences, Karaj, Iran.
• Radfar A A T Still University of Health Sciences, Kirksville, MO, USA.
• Rafay A Contech International Health Consultants, Lahore, Pakistan.
• Rahimi K University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.
• Rahimi-Movaghar V Sina Trauma and Surgery Research Center, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.
• Rahman SU Hamad Medical Corporation, Doha, Qatar.
• Rai RK Society for Health and Demographic Surveillance, Suri, India.
• Rana SM Contech International Health Consultants, Lahore, Pakistan; Contech School of Public Health, Lahore, Pakistan.
• Rao SR Department of Surgery, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, MA, USA.
• Refaat AH Walden University, Minneapolis, MN, USA; Suez Canal University, Ismailia, Egypt.
• Resnikoff S Brien Holden Vision Institute, University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW, Australia; International Health and Development, Geneva, Switzerland.
• Roshandel G Digestive Diseases Research Institute, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran; Golestan Research Center of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Golestan University of Medical Sciences, Gorgan, Iran.
• Saade G Lebanese University, Beirut, Lebanon; Bellevue Medical Center, Mansourieh El Metn, Lebanon.
• Saeedi MY Kingdom of Saudi Arabia Ministry of Health, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
• Sahraian MA Multiple Sclerosis Research Center, Neuroscience Institute, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.
• Saleh S Department of Health Management and Policy, American University of Beirut, Beirut, Lebanon.
• Sanchez-Riera L Institut d'Investigacio Biomedica de Bellvitge (IDIBELL), L'Hospitalet de Llobregat, Barcelona, Spain.
• Satpathy M All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India.
• Sepanlou SG Digestive Diseases Research Institute, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.
• Setegn T Bahir Dar University, Bahir Dar, Ethiopia.
• Shaheen A Department of Public Health, An-Najah University, Nablus, Palestine.
• Shahraz S Tufts Medical Center, Boston, MA, USA.
• Sheikhbahaei S Endocrinology and Metabolism Research Center, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.
• Shishani K Washington State University, Spokane, WA, USA.
• Sliwa K Faculty of Health Sciences, Hatter Institute for Cardiovascular Research in Africa, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa.
• Tavakkoli M Westchester Medical Center, Valhalla, NY, USA.
• Terkawi AS Department of Anesthesiology, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia; Department of Anesthesiology, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, USA.
• Uthman OA Warwick Medical School, University of Warwick, Coventry, UK.
• Westerman R Federal Institute for Population Research, Wiesbaden, Germany; German National Cohort Consortium, Heidelberg, Germany.
• Younis MZ Jackson State University, Jackson, MS, USA.
• El Sayed Zaki M Faculty of Medicine, Mansoura University, Mansoura, Egypt.
• Zannad F Clinical Investigation Centre INSERM, Université de Lorraine, Vandoeuvre les Nancy, France; CHU de Nancy, Vandoeuvre les Nancy, France.
• Roth GA Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA.
• Wang H Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA.
• Naghavi M Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA.
• Vos T Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA.
• Al Rabeeah AA Kingdom of Saudi Arabia Ministry of Health, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
• Lopez AD Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA; Melbourne School of Population and Global Health, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, VIC, Australia.
• Murray CJ Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA.

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