Research
Individual-level studies support a positive relation between walkable built environments and participation in moderate-intensity walking. However, the utility of this evidence for population-level planning is ...
Population Health Metrics 2017 15:38
Published on: 3 October 2017
Research
With rapid economy growth, the prevalence of obesity, and related chronic diseases, has increased greatly. Although this has been widely recognized, little attention has been paid to the influence of built env...
Population Health Metrics 2017 15:35
Published on: 29 September 2017
Research
Human papillomavirus (HPV) is the leading cause of cervical cancer and other malignant and benign neoplastic lesions. HPV vaccination has three potential goals: to prevent transmission, infection, and disease....
Population Health Metrics 2017 15:36
Published on: 29 September 2017
Research
Valid and comparable cause of death (COD) statistics are crucial for health policy analyses. Variations in COD assignment across geographical areas are well-documented while socio-institutional factors may aff...
Population Health Metrics 2017 15:37
Published on: 29 September 2017
Research
The vital registration system in Myanmar has a long history and geographical coverage is currently high. However, a recent assessment of vital registration systems of 148 countries showed poor performance of t...
Population Health Metrics 2017 15:34
Published on: 25 September 2017
Research
Before German reunification, old-age mortality was considerably higher in East Germany than West Germany but converged quickly afterward. Previous studies attributed this rapid catch-up to improved living cond...
Population Health Metrics 2017 15:33
Published on: 19 September 2017
Review
During the previous century the average lifespan in the United States (US) increased by over 30 years, with much of this increase attributed to public health initiatives. This report examines further gains tha...
Population Health Metrics 2017 15:32
Published on: 30 August 2017
Erratum
Population Health Metrics 2017 15:31
Published on: 17 August 2017
The original article was published in Population Health Metrics 2017 15:26
Erratum
Population Health Metrics 2017 15:30
Published on: 4 August 2017
The original article was published in Population Health Metrics 2017 15:18
Research
Ethiopia lacks a complete vital registration system that would assist in measuring disease burden and risk factors. We used the Global Burden of Diseases, Injuries, and Risk Factors Study 2015 (GBD 2015) estim...
Population Health Metrics 2017 15:29
Published on: 21 July 2017
Research
Disability-adjusted life years (DALYs) provide a summary measure of health and can be a critical input to guide health systems, investments, and priority-setting in Ethiopia. We aimed to determine the leading ...
Population Health Metrics 2017 15:28
Published on: 21 July 2017
Research
Reliable data on causes of death form the basis for building evidence on health policy, planning, monitoring, and evaluation. In Ethiopia, the majority of deaths occur at home and civil registration systems ar...
Population Health Metrics 2017 15:27
Published on: 17 July 2017
Research
Reliable estimates of mortality according to socioeconomic status play a crucial role in informing the policy debate about social inequality, social cohesion, and exclusion as well as about the reform of pensi...
Population Health Metrics 2017 15:26
Published on: 14 July 2017
The Erratum to this article has been published in Population Health Metrics 2017 15:31
Research
The health status of Indigenous populations of Australia and New Zealand (NZ) Māori manifests as life expectancies substantially lower than the total population. Accurate assessment of time trends in mortality...
Population Health Metrics 2017 15:25
Published on: 4 July 2017
Research
Cause-specific (CS) and net survival in a relative survival framework (RS) are two of the most common methods for estimating cancer survival. In this paper, we assess the differences in results produced by two...
Population Health Metrics 2017 15:24
Published on: 3 July 2017
Research
The health problems of adults have been neglected in many developing countries, yet many studies in these countries show high rates of premature mortality in adults. Measuring adult mortality and its cause thr...
Population Health Metrics 2017 15:22
Published on: 1 July 2017
Research
We aimed to study the time trends underlying a change from cardiovascular disease (CVD) to cancer as the most common cause of age-standardized mortality in the UK between 1983 and 2013.
Population Health Metrics 2017 15:23
Published on: 1 July 2017
Research
The rural family physician program and social protection scheme were started in Iran about 10 years ago, and no comprehensive study has been carried out to investigate the effects of this program on mortality-...
Population Health Metrics 2017 15:21
Published on: 2 June 2017
Research
The global impact of alcohol consumption on deaths due to cardiomyopathy (CM) has not been quantified to date, even though CM contains a subcategory for alcoholic CM with an effect of heavy drinking over time ...
Population Health Metrics 2017 15:20
Published on: 25 May 2017
Research
Multiple cause-of-death (MCOD) data allow analyzing the contribution to mortality of conditions reported on the death certificate that are not selected as the underlying cause of death. Using MCOD data, this s...
Population Health Metrics 2017 15:19
Published on: 18 May 2017
Research
In the “fourth stage” of epidemiological transition, the distribution of non-communicable diseases is expected to shift to more advanced ages, but age-specific changes beyond 80 years of age have not been repo...
Population Health Metrics 2017 15:18
Published on: 12 May 2017
The Erratum to this article has been published in Population Health Metrics 2017 15:30
Research
To facilitate priority-setting in health policymaking, we compiled the best available information to estimate the adult mortality (>30 years) burden attributable to 13 metabolic, lifestyle, infectious, and env...
Population Health Metrics 2017 15:17
Published on: 3 May 2017
Research
Internationally, ethnic inequalities in mortality within countries are increasingly recognized as a public health concern. But few countries have data to monitor such inequalities. We aimed to provide a detail...
Population Health Metrics 2017 15:15
Published on: 26 April 2017
Research
Metrics based on self-reports of health status have been proposed for tracking population health and making comparisons among different populations. While these metrics have been used in the US to explore disp...
Population Health Metrics 2017 15:16
Published on: 26 April 2017
Research
In Japan, a dramatic rise in suicide rates was observed in the 1950s, especially among the younger population, and then the rate decreased rapidly again in the 1960s. The aim of this study was to assess secula...
Population Health Metrics 2017 15:14
Published on: 5 April 2017
