TIL we are 3 times more likely to die from cancer than we were 100 years ago. But we were 10 times more likely to die from the flu back then. User neleyadi, in the Today I Learned (TIL) subreddit, 22 May 2018
Causes of death 200 years ago vs in 2010 User Surferdude500, in the DataIsBeautiful subreddit, 07 Feb 2017
The Burden of Disease and the Changing Task of Medicine over the past 200 years. NEJM perspective piece. User fuzzo, in the Meddit, a community for the study and discussion of medicine subreddit, 01 Jul 2012
The Burden of Disease and the Changing Task of Medicine [N Engl J Med 2012; 366 — free full-text] User isosafrole, in the Public health: In sickness and in health, no person or nation is an island. subreddit, 23 Jun 2012