Method for reconstructing mortality by educational groups
The lack of classification by educational attainment in death and population exposure data at older ages is an important constraint for studying changes and patterns of mortality disparities by education in De... (Source: Population Health Metrics)
Source: Population Health Metrics - August 26, 2021 Category: Epidemiology Authors: L ászló Németh, Domantas Jasilionis, Henrik Brønnum-Hansen and Dmitri A. Jdanov Tags: Research Source Type: research

Marital status, educational attainment, and suicide risk: a Norwegian register-based population study
The presence and quality of social ties can influence suicide risk. In adulthood, the most common provider of such ties is one ’s partner. As such, the link between marital status and suicide is well-documented... (Source: Population Health Metrics)
Source: Population Health Metrics - July 12, 2021 Category: Epidemiology Authors: Carine Øien-Ødegaard, Lars Johan Hauge and Anne Reneflot Tags: Research Source Type: research

A cost study for mobile phone health surveys using interactive voice response for assessing risk factors of noncommunicable diseases
This is the first study to examine the costs of conducting a mobile phone survey (MPS) through interactive voice response (IVR) to collect information on risk factors for noncommunicable diseases (NCD) in thre... (Source: Population Health Metrics)
Source: Population Health Metrics - June 28, 2021 Category: Epidemiology Authors: Andres I. Vecino-Ortiz, Madhuram Nagarajan, Kenneth Roger Katumba, Shamima Akhter, Raymond Tweheyo, Dustin G. Gibson, Joseph Ali, Elizeus Rutebemberwa, Iqbal Ansary Khan, Alain Labrique and George W. Pariyo Tags: Research Source Type: research

Hospital utilization rates for influenza and RSV: a novel approach and critical assessment
Influenza and respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) contribute significantly to the burden of acute lower respiratory infection (ALRI) inpatient care, but heterogeneous coding practices and availability of inpatie... (Source: Population Health Metrics)
Source: Population Health Metrics - June 14, 2021 Category: Epidemiology Authors: Emily K. Johnson, Dillon Sylte, Sandra S. Chaves, You Li, Cedric Mahe, Harish Nair, John Paget, Tayma van Pomeren, Ting Shi, Cecile Viboud and Spencer L. James Tags: Research Source Type: research

The relative importance and stability of disease burden causes over time: summarizing regional trends on disease burden for 290 causes over 28 years
Since the Global Burden of Disease study (GBD) has become more comprehensive, data for hundreds of causes of disease burden, measured using Disability Adjusted Life Years (DALYs), have become increasingly avai... (Source: Population Health Metrics)
Source: Population Health Metrics - June 10, 2021 Category: Epidemiology Authors: Henry Dyson, Raf Van Gestel and Eddy van Doorslaer Tags: Research Source Type: research

Determining the sex-specific distributions of average daily alcohol consumption using cluster analysis: is there a separate distribution for people with alcohol dependence?
It remains unclear whether alcohol use disorders (AUDs) can be characterized by specific levels of average daily alcohol consumption. The aim of the current study was to model the distributions of average dail... (Source: Population Health Metrics)
Source: Population Health Metrics - June 7, 2021 Category: Epidemiology Authors: Huan Jiang, Shannon Lange, Alexander Tran, Sameer Imtiaz and J ürgen Rehm Tags: Research Source Type: research

Generating age-specific mortality statistics from incomplete death registration data: two applications of the empirical completeness method
The study aims to assess two approaches that apply the empirical completeness method to generate age-specific mortality statistics from incomplete death registration systems. (Source: Population Health Metrics)
Source: Population Health Metrics - June 7, 2021 Category: Epidemiology Authors: Tim Adair and Alan D Lopez Tags: Research Source Type: research

A Bayesian spatio-temporal analysis of mortality rates in Spain: application to the COVID-19 2020 outbreak
The number of deaths attributable to COVID-19 in Spain has been highly controversial since it is problematic to tell apart deaths having COVID as the main cause from those provoked by the aggravation by the vi... (Source: Population Health Metrics)
Source: Population Health Metrics - May 31, 2021 Category: Epidemiology Authors: Pedro Saavedra, Angelo Santana, Luis Bello, Jos é-Miguel Pacheco and Esther Sanjuán Tags: Research Source Type: research

Impact of 2017 ACC/AHA guideline on prevalence, awareness, treatment, control, and determinants of hypertension: a population-based cross-sectional study in southwest of Iran
In 2017, the American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association (ACC/AHA) provided a new guideline for hypertension prevention and management. We aimed to update the prevalence, awareness, control, and ... (Source: Population Health Metrics)
Source: Population Health Metrics - May 25, 2021 Category: Epidemiology Authors: Fatemeh Sadeghi, Bahman Cheraghian, Zahra Mohammadi, Sadaf G. Sepanlou, Sahar Masoudi, Zahra Rahimi, Leila Danehchin, Yousef Paridar, Farhad Abolnezhadian, Mohammad Noori, Seyed Ali Mard, Ali Akbar Shayesteh and Hossein Poustchi Tags: Research Source Type: research

Inequality of weight status in urban Cuba: 2001 –2010
Although understanding changes in the body weight distribution and trends in obesity inequality plays a key role in assessing the causes and persistence of obesity, limited research on this topic is available ... (Source: Population Health Metrics)
Source: Population Health Metrics - May 4, 2021 Category: Epidemiology Authors: Peng Nie, Lanlin Ding, Alfonso Sousa-Poza, Alina Alfonso Leon, Hong Xue, Peng Jia, Liang Wang and Youfa Wang Tags: Research Source Type: research

Estimating causes of out-of-hospital deaths in China: application of SmartVA methods
Most deaths in China occur at home, making it difficult to collect reliable cause of death (CoD) information. Verbal autopsy (VA) was applied using the SmartVA tool to a sample of home deaths in China to explo... (Source: Population Health Metrics)
Source: Population Health Metrics - May 4, 2021 Category: Epidemiology Authors: Jinlei Qi, Tim Adair, Hafizur R. Chowdhury, Hang Li, Deirdre McLaughlin, Yunning Liu, Jiangmei Liu, Xinying Zeng, Jinling You, Sonja Firth, Renee Sorchik, Peng Yin, Lijun Wang, Maigeng Zhou and Alan D. Lopez Tags: Research Source Type: research

The utility of self-rated health in population surveys: the role of bodyweight
Self-rated health (SRH) is one of the most commonly used summary measures of overall health and well-being available to population scientists due to its ease of administration in large-scale surveys and to its... (Source: Population Health Metrics)
Source: Population Health Metrics - May 3, 2021 Category: Epidemiology Authors: Robert Bozick Tags: Research Source Type: research

Changes in liver-related mortality by etiology and sequelae: underlying versus multiple causes of death
The expanded definition of liver-related deaths includes a wide range of etiologies and sequelae. We compared the changes in liver-related mortality by etiology and sequelae for different age groups between 20... (Source: Population Health Metrics)
Source: Population Health Metrics - April 29, 2021 Category: Epidemiology Authors: Ming-Jen Sheu, Fu-Wen Liang, Ching-Yih Lin and Tsung-Hsueh Lu Tags: Research Source Type: research

How do Japanese rate the severity of different diseases and injuries? —an assessment of disability weights for 231 health states by 37,318 Japanese respondents
Disability weights (DWs) are weight factors that reflect the severity of health states for estimates of disability-adjusted life years. A new set of global DWs was published for the Global Burden of Diseases a... (Source: Population Health Metrics)
Source: Population Health Metrics - April 23, 2021 Category: Epidemiology Authors: Shuhei Nomura, Yoshiko Yamamoto, Daisuke Yoneoka, Juanita A. Haagsma, Joshua A. Salomon, Peter Ueda, Rintaro Mori, Damian Santomauro, Theo Vos and Kenji Shibuya Tags: Research Source Type: research

Correction to: The cross-sectional average length of healthy life (HCAL): a measure that summarizes the history of cohort health and mortality
An amendment to this paper has been published and can be accessed via the original article. (Source: Population Health Metrics)
Source: Population Health Metrics - April 21, 2021 Category: Epidemiology Authors: Markus Sauerberg, Michel Guillot and Marc Luy Tags: Correction Source Type: research