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Population Health Metrics

Ausgabe 1/2015

Inhalt (36 Artikel)

Open Access Research

Abdominal vs. overall obesity among women in a nutrition transition context: geographic and socio-economic patterns of abdominal-only obesity in Tunisia

Pierre Traissac, Rebecca Pradeilles, Jalila El Ati, Hajer Aounallah-Skhiri, Sabrina Eymard-Duvernay, Agnès Gartner, Chiraz Béji, Souha Bougatef, Yves Martin-Prével, Patrick Kolsteren, Francis Delpeuch, Habiba Ben Romdhane, Bernard Maire

Open Access Research

Salud Mesoamérica 2015 Initiative: design, implementation, and baseline findings

Ali H Mokdad, Katherine Ellicott Colson, Paola Zúñiga-Brenes, Diego Ríos-Zertuche, Erin B Palmisano, Eyleen Alfaro-Porras, Brent W Anderson, Marco Borgo, Sima Desai, Marielle C Gagnier, Catherine W Gillespie, Sandra L Giron, Annie Haakenstad, Sonia López Romero, Julio Mateus, Abigail McKay, Ali A Mokdad, Tasha Murphy, Paria Naghavi, Jennifer Nelson, Miguel Orozco, Dharani Ranganathan, Benito Salvatierra, Alexandra Schaefer, Gulnoza Usmanova, Alejandro Varela, Shelley Wilson, Sarah Wulf, Bernardo Hernandez, Rafael Lozano, Emma Iriarte, Ferdinando Regalia

Open Access Review

Health-related quality of life after TBI: a systematic review of study design, instruments, measurement properties, and outcome

Suzanne Polinder, Juanita A Haagsma, David van Klaveren, Ewout W Steyerberg, Ed F van Beeck

Open Access Research

Improving the estimation of the burden of risk factors: an illustrative comparison of methods to measure smoking-attributable mortality

Peter Tanuseputro, Richard Perez, Laura Rosella, Kumanan Wilson, Carol Bennett, Meltem Tuna, Deirdre Hennessy, Heather Manson, Douglas Manuel

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Family structure and multiple domains of child well-being in the United States: a cross-sectional study

Patrick M Krueger, Douglas P Jutte, Luisa Franzini, Irma Elo, Mark D Hayward

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Erosion of the healthy soldier effect in veterans of US military service in Iraq and Afghanistan

Mary J Bollinger, Susanne Schmidt, Jacqueline A Pugh, Helen M Parsons, Laurel A Copeland, Mary Jo Pugh

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Effects of a health information system data quality intervention on concordance in Mozambique: time-series analyses from 2009–2012

Bradley H Wagenaar, Sarah Gimbel, Roxanne Hoek, James Pfeiffer, Cathy Michel, João Luis Manuel, Fatima Cuembelo, Titos Quembo, Pires Afonso, Victoria Porthé, Stephen Gloyd, Kenneth Sherr

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Assessing disability weights based on the responses of 30,660 people from four European countries

Juanita A Haagsma, Charline Maertens de Noordhout, Suzanne Polinder, Theo Vos, Arie H Havelaar, Alessandro Cassini, Brecht Devleesschauwer, Mirjam E Kretzschmar, Niko Speybroeck, Joshua A Salomon

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The County Health Rankings: rationale and methods

Patrick L Remington, Bridget B Catlin, Keith P Gennuso

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Level of agreement between patient-reported EQ-5D responses and EQ-5D responses mapped from the SF-12 in an injury population

Belinda J Gabbe, Emma McDermott, Pam M Simpson, Sarah Derrett, Shanthi Ameratunga, Suzanne Polinder, Ronan A Lyons, Frederick P Rivara, James E Harrison

Open Access Research

Propensity score weighting for addressing under-reporting in mortality surveillance: a proof-of-concept study using the nationally representative mortality data in China

Kang Guo, Peng Yin, Lijun Wang, Yibing Ji, Qingfeng Li, David Bishai, Shiwei Liu, Yunning Liu, Thomas Astell-Burt, Xiaoqi Feng, Jinling You, Jiangmei Liu, Maigeng Zhou

Open Access Research

Ambient air pollution and adverse birth outcomes: a natural experiment study

Cheng Huang, Catherine Nichols, Yang Liu, Yunping Zhang, Xiaohong Liu, Suhong Gao, Zhiwen Li, Aiguo Ren

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The longitudinal age and birth cohort trends of regular exercise among adults aged 16–63 years in Sweden: a 24-year follow-up study

Matti Leijon, Patrik Midlöv, Jan Sundquist, Kristina Sundquist, Sven-Erik Johansson

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High rates of homicide in a rural South African population (2000–2008): findings from a population-based cohort study

George Otieno, Edmore Marinda, Till Bärnighausen, Frank Tanser

Open Access Research

Multiple causes of death analysis of chronic diseases: the example of diabetes

Ugo Fedeli, Giacomo Zoppini, Carlo Alberto Goldoni, Francesco Avossa, Giuseppe Mastrangelo, Mario Saugo

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Mapping HIV prevalence using population and antenatal sentinel-based HIV surveys: a multi-stage approach

Samuel Manda, Lieketseng Masenyetse, Bo Cai, Renate Meyer

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A method for reclassifying cause of death in cases categorized as “event of undetermined intent”

Evgeny Andreev, Vladimir M. Shkolnikov, William Alex Pridemore, Svetlana Yu. Nikitina

Open Access Review

The Population Health Model (POHEM): an overview of rationale, methods and applications

Deirdre A. Hennessy, William M. Flanagan, Peter Tanuseputro, Carol Bennett, Meltem Tuna, Jacek Kopec, Michael C. Wolfson, Douglas G. Manuel

Open Access Research

Validation of a new predictive risk model: measuring the impact of the major modifiable risks of death for patients and populations

Stephen S. Lim, Emily Carnahan, Eugene C. Nelson, Catherine W. Gillespie, Ali H. Mokdad, Christopher J. L. Murray, Elliott S. Fisher

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Measuring causes of death in populations: a new metric that corrects cause-specific mortality fractions for chance

Abraham D. Flaxman, Peter T. Serina, Bernardo Hernandez, Christopher J. L. Murray, Ian Riley, Alan D. Lopez

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Projected growth of the adult congenital heart disease population in the United States to 2050: an integrative systems modeling approach

Catherine P. Benziger, Karen Stout, Elisa Zaragoza-Macias, Amelia Bertozzi-Villa, Abraham D. Flaxman

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Smoking, smoking cessation, and 7-year mortality in a cohort of Thai adults

Jiaying Zhao, Cha-aim Pachanee, Vasoontara Yiengprugsawan, Sam-ang Seubsman, Adrian Sleigh

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Estimating distributions of health state severity for the global burden of disease study

Roy Burstein, Tom Fleming, Juanita Haagsma, Joshua A. Salomon, Theo Vos, Christopher JL. Murray

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Rural-urban differentials in pregnancy-related mortality in Zambia: estimates using data collected in a census

Richard Banda, Knut Fylkesnes, Ingvild Fossgard Sandøy

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Population aging, macroeconomic changes, and global diabetes prevalence, 1990–2008

Nikkil Sudharsanan, Mohammed K. Ali, Neil K. Mehta, K M Venkat Narayan

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Small area synthetic estimates of smoking prevalence during pregnancy in England

Lisa Szatkowski, Samantha J. Fahy, Tim Coleman, Joanna Taylor, Liz Twigg, Graham Moon, Jo Leonardi-Bee

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Application of space-time disease clustering by administrative databases in Italy: Adverse Reproductive Outcomes (AROs) and residential exposure

Pamela Barbadoro, Massimo Agostini, Marcello M. D’Errico, Francesco Di Stanislao, Fabio Filippetti, Sara Giuliani, Emilia Prospero