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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Morbidity estimates between different GP registration networks show large, unexplained variations. This research explores the potential of modeling differences between networks in distinguishing new (incident)...
Population Health Metrics 2017 15:13
Published on: 5 April 2017
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The global burden of anemia is large especially in sub-Saharan Africa, where HIV is common and lifestyles are changing rapidly with urbanization. The effects of these changes are unknown. Studies of anemia usu...
Population Health Metrics 2017 15:12
Published on: 29 March 2017
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Despite the well-established need for specific measurement instruments to examine the relationship between neighborhood conditions and adolescent well-being outcomes, few studies have developed scales to measu...
Population Health Metrics 2017 15:11
Published on: 28 March 2017
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Insight into the change from pre- to post-injury health-related quality of life (HRQL) of trauma patients is important to derive estimates of the impact of injury on HRQL. Prospectively collected pre-injury HR...
Population Health Metrics 2017 15:10
Published on: 14 March 2017
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In aging populations, multimorbidity causes a disease burden of growing importance and cost. However, estimates of the prevalence of multimorbidity (prevMM) vary widely across studies, impeding valid compariso...
Population Health Metrics 2017 15:9
Published on: 7 March 2017
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Burden of disease (BoD) as measured by Disability-Adjusted Life Years (DALYs) is one of the criteria for priority-setting in health care resource allocation. DALYs incorporate disability weights (DWs), which a...
Population Health Metrics 2017 15:8
Published on: 4 March 2017
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The aim of this study was to determine whether the incidence and survival of patients with end-stage kidney disease (ESKD) due to polycystic kidney disease (PKD) has changed in Australia and New Zealand.
Population Health Metrics 2017 15:7
Published on: 17 February 2017
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Recent population dietary studies indicate that diets rich in ultra-processed foods, increasingly frequent worldwide, are grossly nutritionally unbalanced, suggesting that the dietary contribution of these foo...
Population Health Metrics 2017 15:6
Published on: 14 February 2017
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This study estimates life expectancy with and without type 2 diabetes for individuals in Lower Saxony, Germany in order to detect a trend in population health.
Population Health Metrics 2017 15:5
Published on: 13 February 2017
Review
In the first part of this review, the nature of the associations between alcohol use and HIV/AIDS is discussed. Alcohol use has been found to be strongly associated with incidence and progression of HIV/AIDS, ...
Population Health Metrics 2017 15:4
Published on: 10 February 2017
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Low-cost, cross-culturally comparable measures of the motor, cognitive, and socioemotional skills of children under 3 years remain scarce. In the present paper, we aim to develop a new caregiver-reported early...
Population Health Metrics 2017 15:3
Published on: 9 February 2017
