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Population Health Metrics

Ausgabe 1/2014

Inhalt (33 Artikel)

Open Access Research

Cancer survival for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australians: a national study of survival rates and excess mortality

John R Condon, Xiaohua Zhang, Peter Baade, Kalinda Griffiths, Joan Cunningham, David M Roder, Michael Coory, Paul L Jelfs, Tim Threlfall

Open Access Research

Estimates of home and leisure injuries treated in emergency departments in the adult population living in metropolitan France: a model-assisted approach

Christophe Bonaldi, Cécile Ricard, Javier Nicolau, Maryline Bouilly, Bertrand Thélot

Open Access Research

Quality comparison of electronic versus paper death certificates in France, 2010

Delphine Lefeuvre, Gérard Pavillon, Albertine Aouba, Agathe Lamarche-Vadel, Anne Fouillet, Eric Jougla, Grégoire Rey

Open Access Research

Redistribution of heart failure as the cause of death: the Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities Study

Michelle L Snyder, Shelly-Ann Love, Paul D Sorlie, Wayne D Rosamond, Carmen Antini, Patricia A Metcalf, Shakia Hardy, Chirayath M Suchindran, Eyal Shahar, Gerardo Heiss

Open Access Research

Cigarette smoking prevalence in US counties: 1996-2012

Laura Dwyer-Lindgren, Ali H Mokdad, Tanja Srebotnjak, Abraham D Flaxman, Gillian M Hansen, Christopher JL Murray

Open Access Research

Measuring socioeconomic status in multicountry studies: results from the eight-country MAL-ED study

Stephanie R Psaki, Jessica C Seidman, Mark Miller, Michael Gottlieb, Zulfiqar A Bhutta, Tahmeed Ahmed, AM Shamsir Ahmed, Pascal Bessong, Sushil M John, Gagandeep Kang, Margaret Kosek, Aldo Lima, Prakash Shrestha, Erling Svensen, William Checkley

Open Access Research

Suicide or undetermined intent? A register-based study of signs of misclassification

Charlotte Björkenstam, Lars-Age Johansson, Peter Nordström, Ingemar Thiblin, Anna Fugelstad, Johan Hallqvist, Rickard Ljung

Open Access Research

Using mortality follow-up of surveys to estimate social inequalities in healthy life years

Rana Charafeddine, Nicolas Berger, Stefaan Demarest, Herman Van Oyen

Open Access Research

Detecting type 2 diabetes and prediabetes among asymptomatic adults in the United States: modeling American Diabetes Association versus US Preventive Services Task Force diabetes screening guidelines

Timothy M Dall, K M Venkat Narayan, Karin B Gillespie, Paul D Gallo, Tericke D Blanchard, Mihaela Solcan, Michael O’Grady, William W Quick

Open Access Research

Why equal treatment is not always equitable: the impact of existing ethnic health inequalities in cost-effectiveness modeling

Melissa McLeod, Tony Blakely, Giorgi Kvizhinadze, Ricci Harris

Open Access Research

Correction of vital statistics based on a proactive search of deaths and live births: evidence from a study of the North and Northeast regions of Brazil

Célia Landmann Szwarcwald, Paulo Germano de Frias, Paulo Roberto Borges deSouza Júnior, Wanessa da Silva de Almeida, Otaliba Libânio de Morais Neto

Open Access Research

Improving disease incidence estimates in primary care surveillance systems

Cécile Souty, Clément Turbelin, Thierry Blanchon, Thomas Hanslik, Yann Le Strat, Pierre-Yves Boëlle

Open Access Editorial

Prevention is better than treatment: the case of Qatar

Ali H Mokdad, Alan D Lopez

Open Access Review

Review of disability weight studies: comparison of methodological choices and values

Juanita A Haagsma, Suzanne Polinder, Alessandro Cassini, Edoardo Colzani, Arie H Havelaar

Open Access Research

Smoking and smokeless tobacco use in nine South and Southeast Asian countries: prevalence estimates and social determinants from Demographic and Health Surveys

Chandrashekhar T Sreeramareddy, Pranil Man Singh Pradhan, Imtiyaz Ali Mir, Shwe Sin

Open Access Research

Evaluation of record linkage of mortality data between a health and demographic surveillance system and national civil registration system in South Africa

Chodziwadziwa W Kabudula, Jan D Joubert, Maletela Tuoane-Nkhasi, Kathleen Kahn, Chalapati Rao, Francesc Xavier Gmez-Oliv, Paul Mee, Stephen Tollman, Alan D Lopez, Theo Vos, Debbie Bradshaw

Open Access Research

Correcting and estimating HIV mortality in Thailand based on 2005 verbal autopsy data focusing on demographic factors, 1996-2009

Amornrat Chutinantakul, Phattrawan Tongkumchum, Kanitta Bundhamcharoen, Virasakdi Chongsuvivatwong

Open Access Research

An autopsy review of sudden unexpected natural deaths in a suburban Nigerian population

Olumuyiwa Eyitayo Pelemo, Donatus Sabageh, Akinwumi Oluwole Komolafe, Adedayo Olukemi Sabageh, William Olufemi Odesanmi

Open Access Review

Epidemiology of dyslipidemia in Chinese adults: meta-analysis of prevalence, awareness, treatment, and control

Yuanxiu Huang, Lin Gao, Xiaoping Xie, Seng Chuen Tan

Open Access Research

Towards a subsiding diabetes epidemic: trends from a large population-based study in Israel

Tomas Karpati, Chandra J Cohen-Stavi, Morton Leibowitz, Moshe Hoshen, Becca S Feldman, Ran D Balicer

Open Access Research

Ten-year trends in major lifestyle risk factors using an ongoing population surveillance system in Australia

Anne W Taylor, Eleonora Dal Grande, Jing Wu, Zumin Shi, Stefano Campostrini

Open Access Research

A methodological framework for the improved use of routine health system data to evaluate national malaria control programs: evidence from Zambia

Adam Bennett, Joshua Yukich, John M Miller, Penelope Vounatsou, Busiku Hamainza, Mercy M Ingwe, Hawela B Moonga, Mulakwo Kamuliwo, Joseph Keating, Thomas A Smith, Richard W Steketee, Thomas P Eisele

Open Access Research

The increase in cancer prevalence and hospital burden in Western Australia, 1992–2011

Susannah Maxwell, Peter O’Leary, Terry Slevin, Rachael Moorin

Open Access Research

Cancer trends in Lebanon: a review of incidence rates for the period of 2003–2008 and projections until 2018

Ali Shamseddine, Ahmad Saleh, Maya Charafeddine, Muhieddine Seoud, Deborah Mukherji, Sally Temraz, Abla Mehio Sibai

Open Access Research

Age- and sex-specific spatio-temporal patterns of colorectal cancer mortality in Spain (1975-2008)

Jaione Etxeberria, María Dolores Ugarte, Tomás Goicoa, Ana F Militino

Open Access Research

The diabetes-obesity-hypertension nexus in Qatar: evidence from the World Health Survey

Faleh Mohamed Hussain Ali, Zlatko Nikoloski, Husein Reka, Orsida Gjebrea, Elias Mossialos

Open Access Erratum

Erratum To: Robust metrics for assessing the performance of different verbal autopsy cause assignment methods in validation studies

Christopher JL Murray, Rafael Lozano, Abraham D Flaxman, Alireza Vahdatpour, Alan D Lopez

Open Access Research

A composite metric for assessing data on mortality and causes of death: the vital statistics performance index

David E Phillips, Rafael Lozano, Mohsen Naghavi, Charles Atkinson, Diego Gonzalez-Medina, Lene Mikkelsen, Christopher JL Murray, Alan D Lopez