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The perinatal mortality rate as an indicator of quality of care in international comparisonsJ H Richardus
Department of Public Health, Erasmus University Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Med Care 36:54-66. 1998..They are not related to quality of care, but do have a relatively large impact on the perinatal mortality rate...
Case detection, gender and disability in leprosy in Bangladesh: a trend analysisJ H Richardus
Department of Public Health, Erasmus University Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Lepr Rev 70:160-73. 1999....
Black-white differences in infectious disease mortality in the United StatesJ H Richardus
Department of Public Health, Erasmus University Rotterdam, Postbox 1738, 3000 DR Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Am J Public Health 91:1251-3. 2001....
Educational inequalities in tuberculosis mortality in sixteen European populationsJ L Alvarez
Department of Public Health, Erasmus MC, University Medical Center Rotterdam, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Int J Tuberc Lung Dis 15:1461-7, i. 2011..To describe the magnitude of socioeconomic inequalities in tuberculosis (TB) mortality by level of education in male, female, urban and rural populations in several European countries...
Risk factors for the development of clinical leprosy among contacts, and their relevance for targeted interventionsF J Moet
Department of Public Health, Erasmus MC, University Medical Center Rotterdam, 3000 DR Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Lepr Rev 75:310-26. 2004..It is concluded that targeted interventions should be aimed at close contacts of both MB and PB patients inside and outside the household, particularly when genetically related...
A study on transmission and a trial of chemoprophylaxis in contacts of leprosy patients: design, methodology and recruitment findings of COLEPF J Moet
Department of Public Health, Erasmus MC, University Medical Center Rotterdam, 3000 DR Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Lepr Rev 75:376-88. 2004..The results of this large field trial will become available in the years to come...
Comparability of published perinatal mortality rates in Western Europe: the quantitative impact of differences in gestational age and birthweight criteriaW C Graafmans
Department of Public Health, Erasmus University, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
BJOG 108:1237-45. 2001..CONCLUSION: These quantitative results confirm that international differences in countries' published perinatal mortality rates partly reflect differences between countries' criteria for registration and publication of perinatal deaths...
Social distance and spatial distance are not the same, observations on the use of GIS in leprosy epidemiologyT A Hoeven
Department of Public Health, Erasmus MC, University Medical Centre Rotterdam, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Epidemiol Infect 136:1624-7. 2008..Classification of contacts based on the spatial distance, as performed with GIS techniques, produces other groups than with social definitions...
Suboptimal care and perinatal mortality in ten European regions: methodology and evaluation of an international auditJ H Richardus
Department of Public Health, Erasmus Medical Center Rotterdam, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
J Matern Fetal Neonatal Med 14:267-76. 2003..The results that relate to suboptimal care will need to be studied in depth in order to reach conclusions about their implications for assessing the quality of perinatal care in the individual regions...
Sensory testing in leprosy: comparison of ballpoint pen and monofilamentsL F Koelewijn
Department of Public Health, Erasmus MC, University Medical Center Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Lepr Rev 74:42-52. 2003..Development and testing of guidelines is a prerequisite for the use of the ballpoint pen...
MUSIDH, multiple use of simulated demographic histories, a novel method to reduce computation time in microsimulation models of infectious diseasesE A J Fischer
Department of Public Health, Erasmus MC, University Medical Center Rotterdam, P O Box 2040, 3000 CA Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Comput Methods Programs Biomed 91:185-90. 2008..The largest reductions are obtained for rare infections with complex demographic histories...
