An analysis of secular trends in method-specific suicides in Japan, 1950 –1975
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... (Source: Population Health Metrics)
Source: Population Health Metrics - April 5, 2017 Category: Epidemiology Authors: Eiji Yoshioka, Yasuaki Saijo and Ichiro Kawachi Source Type: research
Estimating incidence and prevalence rates of chronic diseases using disease modeling
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)... (Source: Population Health Metrics)
Source: Population Health Metrics - April 5, 2017 Category: Epidemiology Authors: Hendrike C. Boshuizen, Marinus J. J. C. Poos, Marjan van den Akker, Kees van Boven, Joke C. Korevaar, Margot W. M. de Waal, Marion C. J. Biermans and Nancy Hoeymans Source Type: research
An analysis of secular trends in method-specific suicides in Japan, 1950 –1975
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... (Source: Population Health Metrics)
Source: Population Health Metrics - April 5, 2017 Category: Epidemiology Authors: Eiji Yoshioka, Yasuaki Saijo and Ichiro Kawachi Source Type: research
Prevalence and risk factors for anemia severity and type in Malawian men and women: urban and rural differences
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... (Source: Population Health Metrics)
Source: Population Health Metrics - March 29, 2017 Category: Epidemiology Authors: Aishatu L. Adamu, Amelia Crampin, Ndoliwe Kayuni, Alemayehu Amberbir, Olivier Koole, Amos Phiri, Moffat Nyirenda and Paul Fine Source Type: research
Assessing the psychometric and ecometric properties of neighborhood scales using adolescent survey data from urban and rural Scotland
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... (Source: Population Health Metrics)
Source: Population Health Metrics - March 28, 2017 Category: Epidemiology Authors: Gina Martin, Joanna Inchley, Gerry Humphris and Candace Currie Source Type: research
Assessment of pre-injury health-related quality of life: a systematic review
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... (Source: Population Health Metrics)
Source: Population Health Metrics - March 14, 2017 Category: Epidemiology Authors: Annemieke C. Scholten, Juanita A. Haagsma, Ewout W. Steyerberg, Ed F. van Beeck and Suzanne Polinder Source Type: research
Evidence-based design recommendations for prevalence studies on multimorbidity: improving comparability of estimates
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... (Source: Population Health Metrics)
Source: Population Health Metrics - March 7, 2017 Category: Epidemiology Authors: Barbara M. Holzer, Klarissa Siebenhuener, Matthias Bopp and Christoph E. Minder Source Type: research
Establishing disability weights for congenital pediatric surgical conditions: a multi-modal approach
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... (Source: Population Health Metrics)
Source: Population Health Metrics - March 4, 2017 Category: Epidemiology Authors: D. Poenaru, J. Pemberton, C. Frankfurter, B. H. Cameron and E. Stolk Source Type: research
Incidence and survival of end-stage kidney disease due to polycystic kidney disease in Australia and New Zealand (1963 –2014)
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. (Source: Population Health Metrics)
Source: Population Health Metrics - February 17, 2017 Category: Epidemiology Authors: Mangalee R. Fernando, Hannah Dent, Stephen P. McDonald and Gopala K. Rangan Source Type: research
The share of ultra-processed foods and the overall nutritional quality of diets in the US: evidence from a nationally representative cross-sectional study
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... (Source: Population Health Metrics)
Source: Population Health Metrics - February 14, 2017 Category: Epidemiology Authors: Euridice Mart ínez Steele, Barry M. Popkin, Boyd Swinburn and Carlos A. Monteiro Source Type: research
Change in life expectancy with type 2 diabetes: a study using claims data from lower Saxony, Germany
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. (Source: Population Health Metrics)
Source: Population Health Metrics - February 13, 2017 Category: Epidemiology Authors: Denise Muschik, Juliane Tetzlaff, Karin Lange, Jelena Epping, Sveja Eberhard and Siegfried Geyer Source Type: research
Does alcohol use have a causal effect on HIV incidence and disease progression? A review of the literature and a modeling strategy for quantifying the effect
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, ... (Source: Population Health Metrics)
Source: Population Health Metrics - February 10, 2017 Category: Epidemiology Authors: J ürgen Rehm, Charlotte Probst, Kevin D. Shield and Paul A. Shuper Source Type: research
Development and validation of an early childhood development scale for use in low-resourced settings
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... (Source: Population Health Metrics)
Source: Population Health Metrics - February 9, 2017 Category: Epidemiology Authors: Dana Charles McCoy, Christopher R. Sudfeld, David C. Bellinger, Alfa Muhihi, Geofrey Ashery, Taylor E. Weary, Wafaie Fawzi and G ünther Fink Source Type: research
Methodological choices affect cancer incidence rates: a cohort study
Incidence rates are fundamental to epidemiology, but their magnitude and interpretation depend on methodological choices. We aimed to examine the extent to which the definition of the study population affects ... (Source: Population Health Metrics)
Source: Population Health Metrics - January 19, 2017 Category: Epidemiology Authors: Hannah L. Brooke, Mats Talb äck, Maria Feychting and Rickard Ljung Source Type: research
Different survival analysis methods for measuring long-term outcomes of Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australian cancer patients in the presence and absence of competing risks
Net survival is the most common measure of cancer prognosis and has been used to study differentials in cancer survival between ethnic or racial population subgroups. However, net survival ignores competing ri... (Source: Population Health Metrics)
Source: Population Health Metrics - January 17, 2017 Category: Epidemiology Authors: Vincent Y. F. He, John R. Condon, Peter D. Baade, Xiaohua Zhang and Yuejen Zhao Source Type: research
