Original Investigation
The State of US Health, 1990-2010
US Burden of Disease Collaborators; Christopher J. L. Murray , MD, DPhil; Jerry Abraham, MPH; Mohammed K. Ali, MBChB, MSc; Miriam Alvarado, BA; Charles Atkinson, BS; Larry M. Baddour, MD; David H. Bartels, BA; Emelia J. Benjamin, MD, ScM; Kavi Bhalla, PhD; Gretchen Birbeck, MD; Ian Bolliger, AB; Roy Burstein, BA; Emily Carnahan, BA; Honglei Chen, PhD; David Chou, BA; Sumeet S. Chugh, MD; Aaron Cohen, MPH, DSc; K. Ellicott Colson, BA; Leslie T. Cooper, MD; William Couser, MD; Michael H. Criqui, MD, MPH; Kaustubh C. Dabhadkar, MBBS, MPH; Nabila Dahodwala, MD, MS; Goodarz Danaei, DrSc, MS; Robert P. Dellavalle, MD, PhD, MSPH; Don C. Des Jarlais, PhD; Daniel Dicker, BS; Eric L. Ding, ScD; E. Ray Dorsey, MD, MBA; Herbert Duber, MD, MPH; Beth E. Ebel, MD, MSc, MPH; Rebecca E. Engell, BA; Majid Ezzati, PhD; Saman Fahimi, MD, MPhil; David T. Felson, MD; Mariel M. Finucane, PhD; Seth Flaxman, BA; Abraham D. Flaxman, PhD; Thomas Fleming, BA; Kyle J. Foreman, MPH; Mohammad H. Forouzanfar, MD, PhD; Greg Freedman, BA; Michael K. Freeman, BA; Sherine E. Gabriel, MD; Emmanuela Gakidou, PhD; Richard F. Gillum, MD; Diego Gonzalez-Medina, BA; Richard Gosselin, MD; Bridget Grant, PhD; Hialy R. Gutierrez, BS; Holly Hagan, PhD; Rasmus Havmoeller, MD, PhD; Howard Hoffman, MA; Kathryn H. Jacobsen, PhD; Spencer L. James, MPHc; Rashmi Jasrasaria, BA; Sudha Jayaraman, MD, MSc; Nicole Johns, MPH; Nicholas Kassebaum, MD; Shahab Khatibzadeh, MD, MPH; Lisa Marie Knowlton, MD, MPH; Qing Lan, PhD; Janet L. Leasher, OD, MPH; Stephen Lim, PhD; John Kent Lin, AB; Steven E. Lipshultz, MD; Stephanie London, MD, DrPH; Rafael Lozano, MD, PhD; Yuan Lu, MSc; Michael F. MacIntyre, EdM; Leslie Mallinger, MPH; Mary M. McDermott, MD; Michele Meltzer, MD, MBE; George A. Mensah, MD; Renata Micha, PhD; Catherine Michaud, MD, PhD; Ted R. Miller, PhD; Charles Mock, MD, PhD; Terrie E. Moffitt, PhD; Ali A. Mokdad, MD, MS; Ali H. Mokdad, PhD; Andrew E. Moran, MD, MPH; Dariush Mozaffarian, MD, DrPH; Tasha Murphy, PhD; Mohsen Naghavi, PhD; K. M. Venkat Narayan, MD; Robert G. Nelson, MD, PhD; Casey Olives, PhD; Saad B. Omer, MBBS, MPH, PhD; Katrina Ortblad, BA; Bart Ostro, PhD; Pamela M. Pelizzari, MPH; David Phillips, BS; C. Arden Pope III, PhD; Murugesan Raju, PhD; Dharani Ranganathan, BS; Homie Razavi, PhD; Beate Ritz, MD, PhD; Frederick P. Rivara, MD, MPH; Thomas Roberts, BA; Ralph L. Sacco, MD, MS; Joshua A. Salomon, PhD; Uchechukwu Sampson, MD, MPH, MBA, MSc(Oxon); Ella Sanman, BS; Amir Sapkota, PhD; David C. Schwebel, PhD; Saeid Shahraz, MD; Kenji Shibuya, MD, DrPH; Rupak Shivakoti, BA; Donald Silberberg, MD; Gitanjali M. Singh, PhD; David Singh, MD; Jasvinder A. Singh, MBBS, MPH; David A. Sleet, PhD; Kyle Steenland, PhD; Mohammad Tavakkoli, MD, MPH, MSc; Jennifer A. Taylor, PhD, MPH; George D. Thurston, ScD; Jeffrey A. Towbin, MD; Monica S. Vavilala, MD; Theo Vos, PhD; Gregory R. Wagner, MD; Martin A. Weinstock, MD, PhD; Marc G. Weisskopf, PhD; James D. Wilkinson, MD, MPH; Sarah Wulf, MPH; Azadeh Zabetian, MD; Alan D. Lopez, PhD