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Articles Rapid health transition in China, 1990–2010: fi ndings from the Global Burden of Disease Study 2010 Gonghuan Yang*, Yu Wang*, Yixin Zeng, George F Gao, Xiaofeng Liang, Maigeng Zhou, Xia Wan, Shicheng Yu, Yuhong Jiang, Mohsen Naghavi, Theo Vos, Haidong Wang, Alan D Lopez, Christopher J L Murray Summary Background China has undergone rapid demographic and epidemiological changes in the past few decades, Lancet 2013; 381: 1987–2015 including striking declines in fertility and child mortality and increases in life expectancy at birth. Popular See Comment pages 1961 discontent with the health system has led to major reforms. To help inform these reforms, we did a comprehensive and 1964 assessment of disease burden in China, how it changed between 1990 and 2010, and how China’s health burden *Joint fi rst authors compares with other nations. Institute of Basic Medical Sciences, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences School of Methods We used results of the Global Burden of Diseases, Injuries, and Risk Factors Study 2010 (GBD 2010) for Basic Medicine, Peking Union 1990 and 2010 for China and 18 other countries in the G20 to assess rates and trends in mort