Issue 1/2015
Content (36 Articles)
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
Mapping malaria risk and vulnerability in the United Republic of Tanzania: a spatial explicit model
Michael Hagenlocher, Marcia C Castro
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
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
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
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
Multiple biomarker models for improved risk estimation of specific cardiovascular diseases related to metabolic syndrome: a cross-sectional study
Evan Coffman, Jennifer Richmond-Bryant
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
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
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
The County Health Rankings: rationale and methods
Patrick L Remington, Bridget B Catlin, Keith P Gennuso
Modeling contextual effects using individual-level data and without aggregation: an illustration of multilevel factor analysis (MLFA) with collective efficacy
Erin C Dunn, Katherine E Masyn, William R Johnston, SV Subramanian
Should additional domains be added to the EQ-5D health-related quality of life instrument for community-based studies? An analytical descriptive study
Jennifer Jelsma, Soraya Maart
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
How much might a society spend on life-saving interventions at different ages while remaining cost-effective? A case study in a country with detailed data
Giorgi Kvizhinadze, Nick Wilson, Nisha Nair, Melissa McLeod, Tony Blakely
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
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
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
Quantifying demographic and socioeconomic transitions for computational epidemiology: an open-source modeling approach applied to India
Sanjay Basu, Jeremy D. Goldhaber-Fiebert
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
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
Mapping HIV prevalence using population and antenatal sentinel-based HIV surveys: a multi-stage approach
Samuel Manda, Lieketseng Masenyetse, Bo Cai, Renate Meyer
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
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
Estimating the current mean age of mothers at the birth of their first child from household surveys
John Bongaarts, Ann K. Blanc
The importance of regional availability of health care for old age survival - Findings from German reunification
Tobias C. Vogt, James W. Vaupel
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
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
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
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
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
Rural-urban differentials in pregnancy-related mortality in Zambia: estimates using data collected in a census
Richard Banda, Knut Fylkesnes, Ingvild Fossgard Sandøy
Population aging, macroeconomic changes, and global diabetes prevalence, 1990–2008
Nikkil Sudharsanan, Mohammed K. Ali, Neil K. Mehta, K M Venkat Narayan
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
Validity of silhouette showcards as a measure of body size and obesity in a population in the African region: A practical research tool for general-purpose surveys
Maryam Yepes, Barathi Viswanathan, Pascal Bovet, Jürgen Maurer
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