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Counting the dead and what they died from: an assessment of the global status of cause of death dataColin D Mathers
Evidence and Information for Policy, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland
Bull World Health Organ 83:171-7. 2005..We sought to assess the current status of global data on death registration and to examine several indicators of data completeness and quality...- Contemporary patterns of Pacific Island mortalityRichard Taylor
School of Public Health, University of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Int J Epidemiol 34:207-14. 2005..CONCLUSIONS: This study indicates the urgent need to improve infrastructure, training, and resources for routine mortality estimation in many Pacific Island countries in order to better inform and evaluate health and public policy... - Robust metrics for assessing the performance of different verbal autopsy cause assignment methods in validation studiesChristopher Jl Murray
Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, University of Washington, 2301 Fifth Ave, Suite 600, Seattle, WA 98121, USA
Popul Health Metr 9:28. 2011..abstract:.. - Population Health Metrics Research Consortium gold standard verbal autopsy validation study: design, implementation, and development of analysis datasetsChristopher Jl Murray
Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, University of Washington, 2301 Fifth Ave, Suite 600, Seattle, WA 98121, USA
Popul Health Metr 9:27. 2011..abstract:.. - Cause-specific mortality patterns among hospital deaths in Thailand: validating routine death certificationJunya Pattaraarchachai
School of Population Health, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia
Popul Health Metr 8:12. 2010..This paper reports findings from a study to measure validity of registered diagnoses in a sample of deaths that occurred in hospitals in Thailand during 2005... - Estimated causes of death in Thailand, 2005: implications for health policyYawarat Porapakkham
School of Population Health, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia
Popul Health Metr 8:14. 2010..Detailed investigations of a sample of deaths in and out of hospital were carried out to identify misclassification of causes and thus derive a best estimate of national mortality patterns by age, sex, and cause of death... - Cause-of-death ascertainment for deaths that occur outside hospitals in Thailand: application of verbal autopsy methodsWarangkana Polprasert
School of Population Health, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia
Popul Health Metr 8:13. 2010..Routine implementation of standardized, rigorous verbal autopsy methods is a potential solution. This paper reports findings from field research conducted to develop, test, and validate the use of verbal autopsy (VA) methods in Thailand... - Verifying causes of death in Thailand: rationale and methods for empirical investigationChalapati Rao
School of Population Health, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia
Popul Health Metr 8:11. 2010..This paper reports the rationale, methods, and broad results from a comprehensive study to verify registered causes in Thailand... - Mortality in Central Java: results from the indonesian mortality registration system strengthening projectChalapati Rao
School of Population Health, University of Queensland, 288, Herston Road, Herston, QLD 4006 Australia
BMC Res Notes 3:325. 2010..abstract:.. - Gender differentials in the evolution of cigarette smoking habits in a general European adult population from 1993-2003Michael C Costanza
Division of Clinical Epidemiology, Geneva University Hospitals, 25, Rue Micheli du Crest, CH 1211 Geneva 14, Switzerland
BMC Public Health 6:130. 2006..Describe the recent evolution of cigarette smoking habits by gender in Geneva, where incidence rates of lung cancer have been declining in men but increasing in women... - Health and health-research priorities: has WHO got it right?Alan Lopez
School of Population Health, University of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD 4006, Australia
Lancet 372:1525-7. 2008 - Measuring the global burden of disease and epidemiological transitions: 2002-2030A D Lopez
School of Population Health, The University of Queensland, Public Health Building, Herston Road, Herston, Brisbane, QLD 4006, Australia
Ann Trop Med Parasitol 100:481-99. 2006.... - Differential mortality in IranArdeshir Khosravi
School of Population Health University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia
Popul Health Metr 5:7. 2007..These data can be used to investigate the nature and extent of differences in mortality in Iran. The objective of this paper is to estimate provincial differences in the level of mortality using this death registration system... - Keeping count: births, deaths, and causes of deathAlan D Lopez
School of Population Health, University of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD 4006, Australia
Lancet 370:1744-6. 2007 - Commentary: Estimating the causes of child deathsAlan D Lopez
School of Population Health, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia
Int J Epidemiol 32:1052-3. 2003 - Global and regional burden of disease and risk factors, 2001: systematic analysis of population health dataAlan D Lopez
School of Population Health, University of Queensland, Brisbane 4006, Australia
Lancet 367:1747-57. 2006..Our aim was to calculate the global burden of disease and risk factors for 2001, to examine regional trends from 1990 to 2001, and to provide a starting point for the analysis of the Disease Control Priorities Project (DCPP)... - Design options for sample-based mortality surveillanceStephen Begg
School of Population Health, University of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD, Australia
Int J Epidemiol 34:1080-7. 2005..The examples provided illustrate the options available when considering the design of mortality surveillance for population health monitoring purposes... - Burden of disease and injury in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples: the Indigenous health gapTheo Vos
School of Population Health, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia
Int J Epidemiol 38:470-7. 2009..Disparities in health status between Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples and the total Australian population have been documented in a fragmentary manner using disparate health outcome measures... - Burden of disease and injury in Australia in the new millennium: measuring health loss from diseases, injuries and risk factorsStephen J Begg
School of Population Health, University of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD, Australia
Med J Aust 188:36-40. 2008..To describe the magnitude and distribution of health problems in Australia, in order to identify key opportunities for health gain... - Validation of cause-of-death statistics in urban ChinaChalapati Rao
School of Population Health, University of Queensland Public Health Building, Herston Road, Herston, QLD 4006, Australia
Int J Epidemiol 36:642-51. 2007..We report results from a validation of cause of death statistics from health facilities in urban China... - Mortality in the Islamic Republic of Iran, 1964-2004Ardeshir Khosravi
School of Population Health, University of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD, Australia
Bull World Health Organ 85:607-14. 2007.... - Evaluating national cause-of-death statistics: principles and application to the case of ChinaChalapati Rao
School of Population Health, University of Queensland, Australia
Bull World Health Organ 83:618-25. 2005..This framework of criteria-based evaluation is recommended for the evaluation of national mortality data in developing countries to determine their utility and to guide efforts to improve their value for guiding policy... - Global comparative assessments of life expectancy: the impact of migration with reference to AustraliaAndrew Page
School of Population Health, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia
Bull World Health Organ 85:474-81. 2007.... - Setting international standards for verbal autopsyFrank Baiden
Bull World Health Organ 85:570-1. 2007 - Can we achieve Millennium Development Goal 4? New analysis of country trends and forecasts of under-5 mortality to 2015Christopher J L Murray
Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation at the University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98102, USA
Lancet 370:1040-54. 2007..We aimed to develop new reproducible methods and reanalyse existing data to elucidate detailed time trends... - The way forwardCarla AbouZahr
Health Metrics Network, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland
Lancet 370:1791-9. 2007.... - Child survivalPaul R Kowal
Lancet 362:915. 2003 - Evidence and information for health policy: a decade of changeAlan D Lopez
Med J Aust 179:396-7. 2003 - Healthy life expectancy: comparison of OECD countries in 2001Colin D Mathers
Global Program on Evidence for Health Policy, World Health Organization, 20 Avenue Appia, 1211 Geneva 27, Switzerland
Aust N Z J Public Health 27:5-11. 2003..To compare average levels of population health for Australia and other OECD countries in 2001... - Causes of cancer in the world: comparative risk assessment of nine behavioural and environmental risk factorsGoodarz Danaei
Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Lancet 366:1784-93. 2005..INTERPRETATION: Reduction of exposure to key behavioural and environmental risk factors would prevent a substantial proportion of deaths from cancer... - Validation of verbal autopsy procedures for adult deaths in ChinaGonghuan Yang
Institute of Basic Medical Sciences, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, 5, Dong Dan San Tiao, 100005 Beijing, China
Int J Epidemiol 35:741-8. 2006..These results suggest the possible utility of these methods in rural China, to back up the low coverage of medical certification of cause of death owing to poor access to health facilities there... - Estimating population cause-specific mortality fractions from in-hospital mortality: validation of a new methodChristopher J L Murray
Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America
PLoS Med 4:e326. 2007..We propose a method to estimate population cause-specific mortality fractions (CSMFs) using data already collected in many middle-income and some low-income developing nations, yet rarely used: in-hospital death records... - Global burden of disease 2005: call for collaboratorsChristopher J L Murray
Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98104, USA
Lancet 370:109-10. 2007 - Estimates of global mortality attributable to smoking in 2000Majid Ezzati
Department of Population and International Health, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Lancet 362:847-52. 2003..Smoking is a risk factor for several diseases and has been increasing in many developing countries. Our aim was to estimate global and regional mortality in 2000 caused by smoking, including an analysis of uncertainty... - Validation of the symptom pattern method for analyzing verbal autopsy dataChristopher J L Murray
Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America
PLoS Med 4:e327. 2007..In this study we develop and validate a statistical strategy for analyzing VA data that overcomes the limitations of PCVA... - Should data from demographic surveillance systems be made more widely available to researchers?Daniel Chandramohan
Department of Infectious and Tropical Diseases, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom
PLoS Med 5:e57. 2008..This debate is further discussed in this month's Editorial... - Epidemiological evidence: improving validity through consistency analysisColin D Mathers
Bull World Health Organ 80:611. 2002 - Evaluation of the quality of cause of death statistics in rural China using verbal autopsiesLijun Wang
National Centre for Disease Control and Prevention, Beijing, China
J Epidemiol Community Health 61:519-26. 2007..In this system, there are no standard procedures or instruments for ascertaining causes of death; hence available statistics require careful evaluation before use... - Estimating mortality and causes of death in Turkey: methods, results and policy implicationsSeval Akgun
Baskent University School of Medicine, Ankara, Turkey
Eur J Public Health 17:593-9. 2007..This article discusses the application of innovative methods to develop national mortality estimates in Turkey, and their implications for national health development policies... - Improving diet and physical activity: 12 lessons from controlling tobacco smokingDerek Yach
Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA
BMJ 330:898-900. 2005 - Monitoring global health: time for new solutionsChristopher J L Murray
Harvard Initiative for Global Health, Harvard University, 104 Mount Auburn Street, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA
BMJ 329:1096-100. 2004 - Distribution of major health risks: findings from the Global Burden of Disease studyAnthony Rodgers
School of Population Health, University of Auckland, New Zealand
PLoS Med 1:e27. 2004..The distribution of risk-factor-attributable disease burden, for example by age or exposure level, can inform the selection and targeting of specific interventions and programs, and increase cost-effectiveness... - Adult mortality: time for a reappraisalEmmanuela Gakidou
Evidence and Information for Policy (GPE/EBD, World Health Organization, 20 Avenue Appia, 1211 Geneva 27, Switzerland
Int J Epidemiol 33:710-7. 2004.... - Targeted approaches for reducing inequities in chronic diseaseAndrew J Wilson
Med J Aust 179:231-2. 2003 - Estimates of global and regional potential health gains from reducing multiple major risk factorsMajid Ezzati
Risk, Resources, and Environmental Management Division, Resources for the Future, Washington, DC, USA
Lancet 362:271-80. 2003..But few such investigations have been attempted, and none on a global scale. Our aim was to estimate the potential health benefits from removal of multiple major risk factors... - Global patterns of healthy life expectancy for older womenColin D Mathers
Global Programme on Evidence for Health Policy, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland
J Women Aging 14:99-117. 2002..We discuss the implications of the findings for international health policy... - Global and regional estimates of cancer mortality and incidence by site: I. Application of regional cancer survival model to estimate cancer mortality distribution by siteColin D Mathers
Global Programme on Evidence for Health Policy, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland
BMC Cancer 2:36. 2002..For regions where information on the distribution of cancer deaths is not available, a site-specific survival model was developed to estimate the distribution of cancer deaths by site... - Global and regional estimates of cancer mortality and incidence by site: II. Results for the global burden of disease 2000Kenji Shibuya
Global Program on Evidence for Health Policy, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland
BMC Cancer 2:37. 2002..We present the detailed estimates of mortality and incidence by site as the basis for the future estimation of cancer burden for the Global Burden of Disease 2000 study... - Role of smoking in global and regional cancer epidemiology: current patterns and data needsMajid Ezzati
Department of Population and International Health, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Int J Cancer 116:963-71. 2005..This variability illustrates the importance of coupling research and surveillance of smoking with that for other risk factors for more effective cancer prevention... - Statistical modeling and projections of lung cancer mortality in 4 industrialized countriesKenji Shibuya
Measurement and Health Information Systems, Evidence and Information for Policy, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland
Int J Cancer 117:476-85. 2005..Future sex differences in lung cancer mortality are likely to be greater in North America than Australia and the UK due to differences in exposure patterns between the sexes... - Reductions in child mortality levels and inequalities in Thailand: analysis of two censusesPatama Vapattanawong
Institute for Population and Social Research, Mahidol University, Thailand
Lancet 369:850-5. 2007..We aimed to measure changes in child-mortality inequalities by household-level socioeconomic strata of the Thai population between 1990 and 2000... - Estimating cause-specific mortality from community- and facility-based data sources in the United Republic of Tanzania: options and implications for mortality burden estimatesDavid R Whiting
MEASURE Evaluation, Carolina Population Center, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, NC, USA
Bull World Health Organ 84:940-8. 2006.... - Estimation of potential global pandemic influenza mortality on the basis of vital registry data from the 1918-20 pandemic: a quantitative analysisChristopher J L Murray
Harvard Initiative for Global Health, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA
Lancet 368:2211-8. 2006..Our aim was to use high-quality vital registration data gathered during the 1918-20 pandemic to estimate global mortality should such a pandemic occur today... - Epidemiologic transition interrupted: a reassessment of mortality trends in Thailand, 1980-2000Kenneth Hill
Department of Population and International Health, Harvard School of Public Health, MA, USA
Int J Epidemiol 36:374-84. 2007..The extent to which the epidemic has slowed or possibly reversed the epidemiological transition in Thailand is relatively unknown... - Core verbal autopsy procedures with comparative validation results from two countriesPhilip W Setel
MEASURE Evaluation Carolina Population Center, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA
PLoS Med 3:e268. 2006..The development and validation of core verbal autopsy forms and suitable coding and tabulation procedures are an essential first step to extending the benefits of this method... - Sample registration of vital events with verbal autopsy: a renewed commitment to measuring and monitoring vital statisticsPhilip W Setel
Department of Epidemiology and MEASURE Evaluation, Carolina Population Center, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC 27516, USA
Bull World Health Organ 83:611-7. 2005..If the global community wishes to have mortality measurements 5 or 10 years hence, the foundation stones of SVR must be laid today... - Social inequalities in male mortality, and in male mortality from smoking: indirect estimation from national death rates in England and Wales, Poland, and North AmericaPrabhat Jha
Centre for Global Health Research, St Michael s Hospital, Public Health Sciences, University of Toronto, Toronto M5C1N8, Canada
Lancet 368:367-70. 2006..Smoking is often more prevalent among men of lower social class, education, or income. The contribution of smoking to these social inequalities in mortality remains uncertain... - Validity of verbal autopsy procedures for determining cause of death in TanzaniaPhilip W Setel
Department of Epidemiology and MEASURE Evaluation, Carolina Population Center, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC 27516, USA
Trop Med Int Health 11:681-96. 2006..Verbal autopsy is an important method for deriving cause-specific mortality estimates where disease burdens are greatest and routine cause-specific mortality data do not exist... - Rethinking the "diseases of affluence" paradigm: global patterns of nutritional risks in relation to economic developmentMajid Ezzati
Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
PLoS Med 2:e133. 2005.... - Selected major risk factors and global and regional burden of diseaseMajid Ezzati
Risk, Resources and Environmental Management Division, Resources for the Future, Washington, DC, USA
Lancet 360:1347-60. 2002..Developing countries suffer most or all of the burden due to many of the leading risks. Strategies that target these known risks can provide substantial and underestimated public-health gains...