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Population Health Metrics

Issue 1/2012

Content (24 Articles)

Open Access Research

A critical re-evaluation of the regression model specification in the US D1 EQ-5D value function

Kim Rand-Hendriksen, Liv A Augestad, Fredrik A Dahl

Open Access Research

The contribution of educational inequalities to lifespan variation

Alyson A van Raalte, Anton E Kunst, Olle Lundberg, Mall Leinsalu, Pekka Martikainen, Barbara Artnik, Patrick Deboosere, Irina Stirbu, Bogdan Wojtyniak, Johan P Mackenbach

Open Access Research

Modeling causes of death: an integrated approach using CODEm

Kyle J Foreman, Rafael Lozano, Alan D Lopez, Christopher JL Murray

Open Access Research

Estimating global mortality from potentially foodborne diseases: an analysis using vital registration data

Laura A Hanson, Elizabeth A Zahn, Sommer R Wild, Dörte Döpfer, James Scott, Claudia Stein

Open Access Research

Determining the best population-level alcohol consumption model and its impact on estimates of alcohol-attributable harms

Tara Kehoe, Gerrit Gmel, Kevin D Shield, Gerhard Gmel, Jürgen Rehm

Open Access Research

Causes of death in Tonga: quality of certification and implications for statistics

Karen Carter, Sione Hufanga, Chalapati Rao, Sione Akauola, Alan D Lopez, Rasika Rampatige, Richard Taylor

Open Access Research

Impact of diabetes mellitus on life expectancy and health-adjusted life expectancy in Canada

Lidia Loukine, Chris Waters, Bernard CK Choi, Joellyn Ellison

Open Access Research

Measured and modeled personal and environmental NO2 exposure

Emilie Stroh, Ralf Rittner, Anna Oudin, Jonas Ardö, Kristina Jakobsson, Jonas Björk, Håkan Tinnerberg

Open Access Research

Sentinel site community surveillance of mortality and nutritional status in southwestern Central African Republic, 2010

Grazia M Caleo, Aly Penda Sy, Serge Balandine, Jonathan Polonsky, Pedro Pablo Palma, Rebecca Freeman Grais, Francesco Checchi

Open Access Review

Mapping populations at risk: improving spatial demographic data for infectious disease modeling and metric derivation

Andrew J Tatem, Susana Adamo, Nita Bharti, Clara R Burgert, Marcia Castro, Audrey Dorelien, Gunter Fink, Catherine Linard, Mendelsohn John, Livia Montana, Mark R Montgomery, Andrew Nelson, Abdisalan M Noor, Deepa Pindolia, Greg Yetman, Deborah Balk

Open Access Research

Developing a comprehensive time series of GDP per capita for 210 countries from 1950 to 2015

Spencer L James, Paul Gubbins, Christopher JL Murray, Emmanuela Gakidou

Open Access Review

Health, well-being, and measuring the burden of disease

Daniel M Hausman

Open Access Review

Health states for schizophrenia and bipolar disorder within the Global Burden of Disease 2010 Study

Alize J Ferrari, Sukanta Saha, John J McGrath, Rosana Norman, Amanda J Baxter, Theo Vos, Harvey A Whiteford

Open Access Research

OBAYA (obesity and adverse health outcomes in young adults): feasibility of a population-based multiethnic cohort study using electronic medical records

Corinna Koebnick, Ning Smith, Karl Huang, Mayra P Martinez, Heather A Clancy, Andrew E Williams, Lawrence H Kushi

Open Access Research

Mortality trends in Tonga: an assessment based on a synthesis of local data

Sione Hufanga, Karen L Carter, Chalapati Rao, Alan D Lopez, Richard Taylor

Open Access Research

Measuring infertility in populations: constructing a standard definition for use with demographic and reproductive health surveys

Maya N Mascarenhas, Hoiwan Cheung, Colin D Mathers, Gretchen A Stevens

Open Access Research

National, regional, and global trends in adult overweight and obesity prevalences

Gretchen A Stevens, Gitanjali M Singh, Yuan Lu, Goodarz Danaei, John K Lin, Mariel M Finucane, Adil N Bahalim, Russell K McIntire, Hialy R Gutierrez, Melanie Cowan, Christopher J Paciorek, Farshad Farzadfar, Leanne Riley, Majid Ezzati

Open Access Research

The influence of measurement error on calibration, discrimination, and overall estimation of a risk prediction model

Laura C Rosella, Paul Corey, Therese A Stukel, Cam Mustard, Jan Hux, Doug G Manuel

Open Access Review

Systematic review of general burden of disease studies using disability-adjusted life years

Suzanne Polinder, Juanita A Haagsma, Claudia Stein, Arie H Havelaar

Open Access Research

Looking at the smoking epidemic through the lens of population pyramids: sociodemographic patterns of smoking in Italy, 1983 to 2005

Bruno Federico, Giovanni Capelli, Giuseppe Costa, Johan P Mackenbach, Anton E Kunst

Open Access Research

Household food access and child malnutrition: results from the eight-country MAL-ED study

Stephanie Psaki, Zulfiqar A Bhutta, Tahmeed Ahmed, Shamsir Ahmed, Pascal Bessong, Munirul Islam, Sushil John, Margaret Kosek, Aldo Lima, Cebisa Nesamvuni, Prakash Shrestha, Erling Svensen, Monica McGrath, Stephanie Richard, Jessica Seidman, Laura Caulfield, Mark Miller, William Checkley