Probabilistic walking models using built environment and sociodemographic predictors
Individual sociodemographic and home neighborhood built environment (BE) factors influence the probability of engaging in health-enhancing levels of walking or moderate-to-vigorous physical activity (MVPA). Me... (Source: Population Health Metrics)
Source: Population Health Metrics - June 3, 2019 Category: Epidemiology Authors: Anne Vernez Moudon, Ruizhu Huang, Orion T. Stewart, Hannah Cohen-Cline, Carolyn Noonan, Philip M. Hurvitz and Glen E. Duncan Tags: Research Source Type: research
Examining trends in cardiovascular disease mortality across Europe: how does the introduction of a new European Standard Population affect the description of the relative burden of cardiovascular disease?
Some mortality statistics are misleading when comparing between countries due to varying age distributions in their populations. In order to adjust for these differences, age-standardised mortality rates (ASMR... (Source: Population Health Metrics)
Source: Population Health Metrics - May 30, 2019 Category: Epidemiology Authors: Shiva Tadayon, Kremlin Wickramasinghe and Nick Townsend Tags: Research Source Type: research
Estimating Adult Mortality in Papua New Guinea, 2011
This study provides the first estimates in the academic literature of adult mortality (4... (Source: Population Health Metrics)
Source: Population Health Metrics - April 18, 2019 Category: Epidemiology Authors: Urarang Kitur, Tim Adair and Alan D. Lopez Tags: Research Source Type: research
Correction to: Evaluation of the mortality registry in Ecuador (2001 –2013) – social and geographical inequalities in completeness and quality
Following the publication of this article [1], the authors reported a typesetting error in Table 1 that caused the columns of the table to be ordered incorrectly, and a typographical error in a sentence in the... (Source: Population Health Metrics)
Source: Population Health Metrics - April 18, 2019 Category: Epidemiology Authors: Andr és Peralta, Joan Benach, Carme Borrell, Verónica Espinel-Flores, Lucinda Cash-Gibson, Bernardo L. Queiroz and Marc Marí-Dell’Olmo Tags: Correction Source Type: research
Evaluation of the mortality registry in Ecuador (2001 –2013) – social and geographical inequalities in completeness and quality
Mortality registries are an essential data source for public health surveillance and for planning and evaluating public policy. Nevertheless, there are still large inequalities in the completeness and quality ... (Source: Population Health Metrics)
Source: Population Health Metrics - March 28, 2019 Category: Epidemiology Authors: Andr és Peralta, Joan Benach, Carme Borrell, Verónica Espinel-Flores, Lucinda Cash-Gibson, Bernardo L. Queiroz and Marc Marí-Dell’Olmo Tags: Research Source Type: research
Cause of death coding in Switzerland: evaluation based on a nationwide individual linkage of mortality and hospital in-patient records
Cause of death statistics are an important tool for quality control of the health care system. Their reliability, however, is controversial. Comparing death certificates with their corresponding medical record... (Source: Population Health Metrics)
Source: Population Health Metrics - March 1, 2019 Category: Epidemiology Authors: Ueli Zellweger, Christoph Junker and Matthias Bopp Tags: Research Source Type: research
Potential gains in health expectancy by improving lifestyle: an application for European regions
Prevention aiming at smoking, alcohol consumption, and BMI could potentially bring large gains in life expectancy (LE) and health expectancy measures such as Healthy Life Years (HLY) and Life Expectancy in Goo... (Source: Population Health Metrics)
Source: Population Health Metrics - January 17, 2019 Category: Epidemiology Authors: Koen F üssenich, Wilma J. Nusselder, Stefan K. Lhachimi, Hendriek C. Boshuizen and Talitha F. Feenstra Tags: Research Source Type: research
Assessing the quality of medical death certification: a case study of concordance between national statistics and results from a medical record review in a regional hospital in the Philippines
Medical certificates of cause of death (MCCOD) issued by hospital physicians are a key input to vital registration systems. Deaths certified by hospital physicians have been implicitly considered to be of high... (Source: Population Health Metrics)
Source: Population Health Metrics - December 29, 2018 Category: Epidemiology Authors: Marilla Lucero, Ian Douglas Riley, Riley H. Hazard, Diozele Sanvictores, Veronica Tallo, Dorothy Gay Marmita Dumaluan, Juanita M. Ugpo and Alan D. Lopez Tags: Research Source Type: research
How useful are registered birth statistics for health and social policy? A global systematic assessment of the availability and quality of birth registration data
The registration and certification of births has a wide array of individual and societal benefits. While near-universal in some parts of the world, birth registration is less common in many low- and middle-inc... (Source: Population Health Metrics)
Source: Population Health Metrics - December 27, 2018 Category: Epidemiology Authors: David E. Phillips, Tim Adair and Alan D. Lopez Tags: Research Source Type: research
Health status in a transitional society: urban-rural disparities from a dynamic perspective in China
The phenomenon of urban-rural segmentation has emerged and is remarkable, and the health disparities between rural and urban China should be stressed. (Source: Population Health Metrics)
Source: Population Health Metrics - December 27, 2018 Category: Epidemiology Authors: Junfeng Jiang and Peigang Wang Tags: Research Source Type: research
Injury death certificates without specification of the circumstances leading to the fatal injury – the Norwegian Cause of Death Registry 2005–2014
For injury deaths, the underlying cause of death is defined as the circumstances leading to the injury. When this information is missing, the ICD-10 code X59 (Exposure to unspecified factor) is used. Lack of k... (Source: Population Health Metrics)
Source: Population Health Metrics - December 24, 2018 Category: Epidemiology Authors: Christian Lycke Ellingsen, Marta Ebbing, G. Cecilie Alfsen and Stein Emil Vollset Tags: Research Source Type: research
Evaluation of stability of directly standardized rates for sparse data using simulation methods
Directly standardized rates (DSRs) adjust for different age distributions in different populations and enable, say, the rates of disease between the populations to be directly compared. They are routinely publ... (Source: Population Health Metrics)
Source: Population Health Metrics - December 22, 2018 Category: Epidemiology Authors: Joan K. Morris, Joachim Tan, Paul Fryers and Jonathan Bestwick Tags: Research Source Type: research
Quantifying temporal trends of age-standardized rates with odds
To quantify temporal trends in age-standardized rates of disease, the convention is to fit a linear regression model to log-transformed rates because the slope term provides the estimated annual percentage cha... (Source: Population Health Metrics)
Source: Population Health Metrics - December 18, 2018 Category: Epidemiology Authors: Chuen Seng Tan, Nathalie St øer, Yilin Ning, Ying Chen and Marie Reilly Tags: Research Source Type: research
The present and future burden of previously treated advanced non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) by histology and line of therapy in France, Germany, Italy, and Spain: model-based predictions
The burden of advanced non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) is not well understood, and the number of patients likely to receive treatment in Europe has not been quantified. The aim of this study was to forecast... (Source: Population Health Metrics)
Source: Population Health Metrics - November 26, 2018 Category: Epidemiology Authors: David Campbell, Ken O ’Day, Nadine Hertel, John R. Penrod, Melinda Manley Daumont and Michael Lees Tags: Research Source Type: research
Hospital mortality statistics in Tanzania: availability, accessibility, and quality 2006 –2015
The objective of this study was to assess t... (Source: Population Health Metrics)
Source: Population Health Metrics - November 20, 2018 Category: Epidemiology Authors: Irene R. Mremi, Susan F. Rumisha, Mercy G. Chiduo, Chacha D. Mangu, Denna M. Mkwashapi, Coleman Kishamawe, Emanuel P. Lyimo, Isolide S. Massawe, Lucas E. Matemba, Veneranda M. Bwana and Leonard E. G. Mboera Tags: Research Source Type: research
