Kenji Shibuya

Summary

Affiliation: World Health Organization
Country: Switzerland

Publications

  1. ncbi Statistical modeling and projections of lung cancer mortality in 4 industrialized countries
    Kenji Shibuya
    Measurement and Health Information Systems, Evidence and Information for Policy, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland
    Int J Cancer 117:476-85. 2005
  2. ncbi Global and regional estimates of cancer mortality and incidence by site: II. Results for the global burden of disease 2000
    Kenji Shibuya
    Global Program on Evidence for Health Policy, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland
    BMC Cancer 2:37. 2002
  3. ncbi WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control: development of an evidence based global public health treaty
    Kenji Shibuya
    Evidence and Information for Policy, World Health Organization, CH-1211, Geneva 27, Switzerland
    BMJ 327:154-7. 2003
  4. ncbi Regression analysis of trends in mortality from hepatocellular carcinoma in Japan, 1972-2001
    Kenji Shibuya
    Measurement and Health Information Systems, World Health Organization, CH 1211 Geneva 27, Switzerland
    Int J Epidemiol 34:397-402. 2005
  5. ncbi Conditional cash transfer: a magic bullet for health?
    Kenji Shibuya
    WHO, Geneva CH 1211, Switzerland
    Lancet 371:789-91. 2008
  6. ncbi Global and regional estimates of cancer mortality and incidence by site: I. Application of regional cancer survival model to estimate cancer mortality distribution by site
    Colin D Mathers
    Global Programme on Evidence for Health Policy, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland
    BMC Cancer 2:36. 2002
  7. ncbi Estimating child mortality due to diarrhoea in developing countries
    Cynthia Boschi-Pinto
    Child and Adolescent Health, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland
    Bull World Health Organ 86:710-7. 2008
  8. ncbi Deaths from heart failure: using coarsened exact matching to correct cause-of-death statistics
    Gretchen A Stevens
    Information, Evidence and Research, World Health Organization, 20 Avenue Appia, 1211 Geneva, Switzerland
    Popul Health Metr 8:6. 2010
  9. ncbi WHO estimates of the causes of death in children
    Jennifer Bryce
    WHO, Geneva, Switzerland
    Lancet 365:1147-52. 2005
  10. ncbi Malaria risk: estimating clinical episodes of malaria
    Bernard L Nahlen
    World Health Organization, Roll Back Malaria Department, 1211 Geneva, Switzerland
    Nature 437:E3; discussion E4-5. 2005

Collaborators

Detail Information

Publications23

  1. ncbi Statistical modeling and projections of lung cancer mortality in 4 industrialized countries
    Kenji 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...
  2. ncbi Global and regional estimates of cancer mortality and incidence by site: II. Results for the global burden of disease 2000
    Kenji 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...
  3. ncbi WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control: development of an evidence based global public health treaty
    Kenji Shibuya
    Evidence and Information for Policy, World Health Organization, CH-1211, Geneva 27, Switzerland
    BMJ 327:154-7. 2003
  4. ncbi Regression analysis of trends in mortality from hepatocellular carcinoma in Japan, 1972-2001
    Kenji Shibuya
    Measurement and Health Information Systems, World Health Organization, CH 1211 Geneva 27, Switzerland
    Int J Epidemiol 34:397-402. 2005
    ..We assessed whether there was a real increase in mortality from HCC and which factors contributed to the recent increasing trends of the number of deaths from HCC...
  5. ncbi Conditional cash transfer: a magic bullet for health?
    Kenji Shibuya
    WHO, Geneva CH 1211, Switzerland
    Lancet 371:789-91. 2008
  6. ncbi Global and regional estimates of cancer mortality and incidence by site: I. Application of regional cancer survival model to estimate cancer mortality distribution by site
    Colin 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...
  7. ncbi Estimating child mortality due to diarrhoea in developing countries
    Cynthia Boschi-Pinto
    Child and Adolescent Health, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland
    Bull World Health Organ 86:710-7. 2008
    ..The major objective of this study is to provide estimates of diarrhoea mortality at country, regional and global level by employing the Child Health Epidemiology Reference Group (CHERG) standard...
  8. ncbi Deaths from heart failure: using coarsened exact matching to correct cause-of-death statistics
    Gretchen A Stevens
    Information, Evidence and Research, World Health Organization, 20 Avenue Appia, 1211 Geneva, Switzerland
    Popul Health Metr 8:6. 2010
    ..Inconsistent cause-of-death assignment among cardiovascular causes of death is of particular concern. This can prevent valid epidemiologic comparisons across countries and over time...
  9. ncbi WHO estimates of the causes of death in children
    Jennifer Bryce
    WHO, Geneva, Switzerland
    Lancet 365:1147-52. 2005
    ..These estimates of the causes of child deaths should be used to guide public-health policies and programmes...
  10. ncbi Malaria risk: estimating clinical episodes of malaria
    Bernard L Nahlen
    World Health Organization, Roll Back Malaria Department, 1211 Geneva, Switzerland
    Nature 437:E3; discussion E4-5. 2005
    ..2). Both groups agree that the burden of malaria disease outside Africa, especially in South Asia, is greater than was estimated in the 1990s...
  11. ncbi Comparative cost-effectiveness of policy instruments for reducing the global burden of alcohol, tobacco and illicit drug use
    Dan Chisholm
    Evidence and Information for Policy, World Health Organisation, Geneva, Switzerland
    Drug Alcohol Rev 25:553-65. 2006
    ..These issues are the subject of the final section of this review...
  12. ncbi The way forward
    Carla AbouZahr
    Health Metrics Network, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland
    Lancet 370:1791-9. 2007
    ....
  13. ncbi Keeping count: births, deaths, and causes of death
    Alan D Lopez
    School of Population Health, University of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD 4006, Australia
    Lancet 370:1744-6. 2007
  14. ncbi Setting international standards for verbal autopsy
    Frank Baiden
    Bull World Health Organ 85:570-1. 2007
  15. ncbi Decide monitoring strategies before setting targets
    Kenji Shibuya
    Bull World Health Organ 85:423. 2007
  16. ncbi Verbal autopsy: current practices and challenges
    Nadia Soleman
    Department of Infectious and Tropical Diseases, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, England
    Bull World Health Organ 84:239-45. 2006
    ..We also highlight further steps needed in the development of a standard VA process...
  17. ncbi Health statistics: time to get serious
    Kenji Shibuya
    Bull World Health Organ 83:722. 2005
  18. ncbi No cry at birth: global estimates of intrapartum stillbirths and intrapartum-related neonatal deaths
    Joy Lawn
    Saving Newborn Lives Save the Children, International Perinatal Care Unit, Institute of Child Health, London, England
    Bull World Health Organ 83:409-17. 2005
    ..7 to 1.2 million. Estimates for intrapartum stillbirths are not available. We aimed to estimate the numbers of intrapartum-related neonatal deaths and intrapartum stillbirths in the year 2000...
  19. ncbi Global burden of disease 2005: call for collaborators
    Christopher J L Murray
    Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98104, USA
    Lancet 370:109-10. 2007
  20. ncbi Can we achieve Millennium Development Goal 4? New analysis of country trends and forecasts of under-5 mortality to 2015
    Christopher 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...
  21. ncbi Ethical issues in the application of verbal autopsies in mortality surveillance systems
    Daniel Chandramohan
    Trop Med Int Health 10:1087-9. 2005
  22. ncbi Measuring progress towards reducing health inequalities
    Kenji Shibuya
    Bull World Health Organ 83:162. 2005
  23. ncbi Individual income, income distribution, and self rated health in Japan: cross sectional analysis of nationally representative sample
    Kenji Shibuya
    Department of Hygiene and Public Health, Teikyo University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan
    BMJ 324:16-9. 2002
    ..CONCLUSIONS: Individual income, probably relative to the median prefecture income, has a stronger association with self rated health than income inequality at the prefecture level...