Issue 1/2011
Content (60 Articles)
Assessing community variation and randomness in public health indicators
Stephan Arndt, Laura Acion, Kristin Caspers, Ousmane Diallo
The effects of spatial population dataset choice on estimates of population at risk of disease
Andrew J Tatem, Nicholas Campiz, Peter W Gething, Robert W Snow, Catherine Linard
Developing a method to derive alcohol-attributable fractions for HIV/AIDS mortality based on alcohol's impact on adherence to antiretroviral medication
Gerrit Gmel, Kevin D Shield, Jürgen Rehm
Capture-recapture analysis of all-cause mortality data in Bohol, Philippines
Karen L Carter, Gail Williams, Veronica Tallo, Diozele Sanvictores, Hazel Madera, Ian Riley
The effect of comorbidity on health-related quality of life for injury patients in the first year following injury: comparison of three comorbidity adjustment approaches
Juanita A Haagsma, Ed F van Beeck, Suzanne Polinder, Hidde Toet, Martien Panneman, Gouke J Bonsel
Healthy life gains in South Australia 1999-2008: analysis of a local Burden of Disease series
David Banham, Tony Woollacott, John Lynch
PHQ-8 Days: a measurement option for DSM-5 Major Depressive Disorder (MDD) severity
Satvinder S Dhingra, Kurt Kroenke, Matthew M Zack, Tara W Strine, Lina S Balluz
An assessment of routine primary care health information system data quality in Sofala Province, Mozambique
Sarah Gimbel, Mark Micek, Barrot Lambdin, Joseph Lara, Marina Karagianis, Fatima Cuembelo, Stephen S Gloyd, James Pfeiffer, Kenneth Sherr
Why my disease is important: metrics of disease occurrence used in the introductory sections of papers in three leading general medical journals in 1993 and 2003
Hebe N Gouda, John W Powles
Patterns of multimorbidity in working Australians
Libby Holden, Paul A Scuffham, Michael F Hilton, Alexander Muspratt, Shu-Kay Ng, Harvey A Whiteford
Falling behind: life expectancy in US counties from 2000 to 2007 in an international context
Sandeep C Kulkarni, Alison Levin-Rector, Majid Ezzati, Christopher JL Murray
Decomposing cross-country differences in quality adjusted life expectancy: the impact of value sets
Richard Heijink, Pieter van Baal, Mark Oppe, Xander Koolman, Gert Westert
Verbal autopsy: advancing science, facilitating application
Christopher JL Murray, Alan D Lopez, Kenji Shibuya, Rafael Lozano
Verbal autopsy and global mortality statistics: if not now, then when?
Philip W Setel
Opportunities and challenges for verbal autopsy in the national Death Registration System in Sri Lanka: past and future
Samath D Dharmaratne, Rajitha L Jayasuriya, Buddhipani Y Perera, EM Gunesekera, A Sathasivayyar
Advances in verbal autopsy: pragmatic optimism or optimistic theory?
Edward Fottrell
Synergism of verbal autopsy and diagnostic pathology autopsy for improved accuracy of mortality data
Corinne L Fligner, Jill Murray, Drucilla J Roberts
Computer-based analysis of verbal autopsies: revolution or evolution?
Ian Riley
Population Health Metrics Research Consortium gold standard verbal autopsy validation study: design, implementation, and development of analysis datasets
Christopher JL Murray, Alan D Lopez, Robert Black, Ramesh Ahuja, Said Mohd Ali, Abdullah Baqui, Lalit Dandona, Emily Dantzer, Vinita Das, Usha Dhingra, Arup Dutta, Wafaie Fawzi, Abraham D Flaxman, Sara Gómez, Bernardo Hernández, Rohina Joshi, Henry Kalter, Aarti Kumar, Vishwajeet Kumar, Rafael Lozano, Marilla Lucero, Saurabh Mehta, Bruce Neal, Summer Lockett Ohno, Rajendra Prasad, Devarsetty Praveen, Zul Premji, Dolores Ramírez-Villalobos, Hazel Remolador, Ian Riley, Minerva Romero, Mwanaidi Said, Diozele Sanvictores, Sunil Sazawal, Veronica Tallo
Robust metrics for assessing the performance of different verbal autopsy cause assignment methods in validation studies
Christopher JL Murray, Rafael Lozano, Abraham D Flaxman, Alireza Vahdatpour, Alan D Lopez
Random forests for verbal autopsy analysis: multisite validation study using clinical diagnostic gold standards
Abraham D Flaxman, Alireza Vahdatpour, Sean Green, Spencer L James, Christopher JL Murray
Simplified Symptom Pattern Method for verbal autopsy analysis: multisite validation study using clinical diagnostic gold standards
Christopher JL Murray, Spencer L James, Jeanette K Birnbaum, Michael K Freeman, Rafael Lozano, Alan D Lopez
Performance of the Tariff Method: validation of a simple additive algorithm for analysis of verbal autopsies
Spencer L James, Abraham D Flaxman, Christopher JL Murray
Performance of physician-certified verbal autopsies: multisite validation study using clinical diagnostic gold standards
Rafael Lozano, Alan D Lopez, Charles Atkinson, Mohsen Naghavi, Abraham D Flaxman, Christopher JL Murray
Effects on the estimated cause-specific mortality fraction of providing physician reviewers with different formats of verbal autopsy data
Rohina Joshi, Devarsetty Praveen, Clara Chow, Bruce Neal
An improved method for physician-certified verbal autopsy reduces the rate of discrepancy: experiences in the Nouna Health and Demographic Surveillance Site (NHDSS), Burkina Faso
Maurice Yé, Eric Diboulo, Louis Niamba, Ali Sié, Boubacar Coulibaly, Cheik Bagagnan, Jonas Dembélé, Heribert Ramroth
Direct estimation of cause-specific mortality fractions from verbal autopsies: multisite validation study using clinical diagnostic gold standards
Abraham D Flaxman, Alireza Vahdatpour, Spencer L James, Jeanette K Birnbaum, Christopher JL Murray
Using verbal autopsy to assess the prevalence of HIV infection among deaths in the ART period in rural Uganda: a prospective cohort study, 2006-2008
Billy N Mayanja, Kathy Baisley, Norah Nalweyiso, Freddie M Kibengo, Joseph O Mugisha, Lieve Van der Paal, Dermot Maher, Pontiano Kaleebu
Epidemiologic application of verbal autopsy to investigate the high occurrence of cancer along Huai River Basin, China
Xia Wan, Maigeng Zhou, Zhuang Tao, Ding Ding, Gonghuan Yang
Assessing quality of medical death certification: Concordance between gold standard diagnosis and underlying cause of death in selected Mexican hospitals
Bernardo Hernández, Dolores Ramírez-Villalobos, Minerva Romero, Sara Gómez, Charles Atkinson, Rafael Lozano
Use of verbal autopsy in a national health information system: Effects of the investigation of ill-defined causes of death on proportional mortality due to injury in small municipalities in Brazil
Elisabeth França, Deise Campos, Mark DC Guimarães, Maria de Fátima M Souza
Feasibility of using a World Health Organization-standard methodology for Sample Vital Registration with Verbal Autopsy (SAVVY) to report leading causes of death in Zambia: results of a pilot in four provinces, 2010
Sheila S Mudenda, Stanley Kamocha, Robert Mswia, Martha Conkling, Palver Sikanyiti, Dara Potter, William C Mayaka, Melissa A Marx
Verbal autopsy completion rate and factors associated with undetermined cause of death in a rural resource-poor setting of Tanzania
Mathew A Mwanyangala, Honorathy M Urassa, Jensen C Rutashobya, Chrisostom C Mahutanga, Angelina M Lutambi, Deodatus V Maliti, Honorati M Masanja, Salim K Abdulla, Rose N Lema
Classifying perinatal mortality using verbal autopsy: is there a role for nonphysicians?
Cyril Engmann, John Ditekemena, Imtiaz Jehan, Ana Garces, Mutinta Phiri, Vanessa Thorsten, Manolo Mazariegos, Elwyn Chomba, Omrana Pasha, Antoinette Tshefu, Elizabeth M McClure, Dennis Wallace, Robert L Goldenberg, Waldemar A Carlo, Linda L Wright, Carl Bose
Trends in causes of death among children under 5 in Bangladesh, 1993-2004: an exercise applying a standardized computer algorithm to assign causes of death using verbal autopsy data
Li Liu, Qingfeng Li, Rose A Lee, Ingrid K Friberg, Jamie Perin, Neff Walker, Robert E Black
Social autopsy: INDEPTH Network experiences of utility, process, practices, and challenges in investigating causes and contributors to mortality
Karin Källander, Daniel Kadobera, Thomas N Williams, Rikke Thoft Nielsen, Lucy Yevoo, Aloysius Mutebi, Jonas Akpakli, Clement Narh, Margaret Gyapong, Alberta Amu, Peter Waiswa
Social autopsy for maternal and child deaths: a comprehensive literature review to examine the concept and the development of the method
Henry D Kalter, Rene Salgado, Marzio Babille, Alain K Koffi, Robert E Black
Using verbal autopsy to track epidemic dynamics: the case of HIV-related mortality in South Africa
Peter Byass, Kathleen Kahn, Edward Fottrell, Paul Mee, Mark A Collinson, Stephen M Tollman
Verbal autopsy-based cause-specific mortality trends in rural KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, 2000-2009
Abraham J Herbst, Tshepiso Mafojane, Marie-Louise Newell
Adaptation of a probabilistic method (InterVA) of verbal autopsy to improve the interpretation of cause of stillbirth and neonatal death in Malawi, Nepal, and Zimbabwe
Stefania Vergnano, Edward Fottrell, David Osrin, Peter N Kazembe, Charles Mwansambo, Dharma S Manandhar, Stephan P Munjanja, Peter Byass, Sonia Lewycka, Anthony Costello
Validating physician-certified verbal autopsy and probabilistic modeling (InterVA) approaches to verbal autopsy interpretation using hospital causes of adult deaths
Evasius Bauni, Carolyne Ndila, George Mochamah, Gideon Nyutu, Lena Matata, Charles Ondieki, Barbara Mambo, Maureen Mutinda, Benjamin Tsofa, Eric Maitha, Anthony Etyang, Thomas N Williams
Performance of InterVA for assigning causes of death to verbal autopsies: multisite validation study using clinical diagnostic gold standards
Rafael Lozano, Michael K Freeman, Spencer L James, Benjamin Campbell, Alan D Lopez, Abraham D Flaxman, Christopher JL Murray
Co-occurrence of diabetes, myocardial infarction, stroke, and cancer: quantifying age patterns in the Dutch population using health survey data
Pieter H van Baal, Peter M Engelfriet, Hendriek C Boshuizen, Jan van de Kassteele, Francois G Schellevis, Rudolf T Hoogenveen
Change in bias in self-reported body mass index in Australia between 1995 and 2008 and the evaluation of correction equations
Alison J Hayes, Philip M Clarke, Tom WC Lung
Cause-specific mortality time series analysis: a general method to detect and correct for abrupt data production changes
Grégoire Rey, Albertine Aouba, Gérard Pavillon, Rasmus Hoffmann, Iris Plug, Ragnar Westerling, Eric Jougla, Johan Mackenbach
Age at diagnosis of diabetes in Appalachia
Lawrence Barker, Robert Gerzoff, Richard Crespo, Molly Shrewsberry
Incidences of obesity and extreme obesity among US adults: findings from the 2009 Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System
Liping Pan, David S Freedman, Cathleen Gillespie, Sohyun Park, Bettylou Sherry
National and subnational mortality effects of metabolic risk factors and smoking in Iran: a comparative risk assessment
Farshad Farzadfar, Goodarz Danaei, Hengameh Namdaritabar, Julie Knoll Rajaratnam, Jacob R Marcus, Ardeshir Khosravi, Siamak Alikhani, Christopher JL Murray, Majid Ezzati
An algorithm to assess methodological quality of nutrition and mortality cross-sectional surveys: development and application to surveys conducted in Darfur, Sudan
Claudine Prudhon, Xavier de Radiguès, Nancy Dale, Francesco Checchi
Using funnel plots in public health surveillance
Douglas C Dover, Donald P Schopflocher
Burden of type 2 diabetes attributed to lower educational levels in Sweden
Emilie E Agardh, Anna Sidorchuk, Johan Hallqvist, Rickard Ljung, Stefan Peterson, Tahereh Moradi, Peter Allebeck
Testing for fertility stalls in demographic and health surveys
Michel L Garenne
Measuring the burden of arboviral diseases: the spectrum of morbidity and mortality from four prevalent infections
ADesirée LaBeaud, Fatima Bashir, Charles H King
The national burden of road traffic injuries in Thailand
Vallop Ditsuwan, Lennert J Veerman, Jan J Barendregt, Melanie Bertram, Theo Vos
Regional inequalities in under-5 mortality in Nigeria: a population-based analysis of individual- and community-level determinants
Diddy Antai
Changes over time in the "healthy soldier effect"
Michael Waller, Annabel CL McGuire
Improving the public health utility of global cardiovascular mortality data: the rise of ischemic heart disease
Ryan M Ahern, Rafael Lozano, Mohsen Naghavi, Kyle Foreman, Emmanuela Gakidou, Christopher JL Murray