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| E NolteSummaryAffiliation: London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine Country: UK Publications
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Changing mortality patterns in East and West Germany and Poland. I: long term trends (1960-1997)E Nolte
European Centre on Health of Societies in Transition, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, Keppel Street, London WC1E 7HT
J Epidemiol Community Health 54:890-8. 2000..To examine the long term evolution of mortality in the former German Democratic Republic (GDR) in the period from 1960 and its specific position in health terms compared with the Federal Republic (FRG) in the west and Poland in the east...
Diabetes as a tracer condition in international benchmarking of health systemsEllen Nolte
European Centre on Health of Societies in Transition, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, Keppel Street, WC1E 7HT London, UK
Diabetes Care 29:1007-11. 2006..To assess the performance of health systems using diabetes as a tracer condition...
Measuring the health of nations: updating an earlier analysisEllen Nolte
London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, UK
Health Aff (Millwood) 27:58-71. 2008..If the United States could reduce amenable mortality to the average rate achieved in the three top-performing countries, there would have been 101,000 fewer deaths per year by the end of the study period...
Measuring the health of nations: analysis of mortality amenable to health careEllen Nolte
European Centre on Health of Societies in Transition, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London WC1E 7HT
BMJ 327:1129. 2003....
Changing health inequalities in east and west Germany since unificationEllen Nolte
London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, European Centre on Health of Societies in Transition, Keppel Street, London WC1E 7HT, UK
Soc Sci Med 58:119-36. 2004..This suggests that mechanisms involved in the association of socio-economic factors and health possibly behave differently in east and west...
Trends in mortality attributable to current alcohol consumption in east and west GermanyEllen Nolte
European Centre on Health of Societies in Transition, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, Keppel Street, WC1E 7HT, London, UK
Soc Sci Med 56:1385-95. 2003..This study points to the need for comprehensive policies on alcohol in Germany to close the persisting east-west health gap...
The contribution of medical care to changing life expectancy in Germany and PolandEllen Nolte
European Centre on Health of Societies in Transition, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, Keppel Street, London WC1E 7HT, UK
Soc Sci Med 55:1905-21. 2002..Especially in Poland and the former German Democratic Republic there remains potential for further progress that would narrow the health gap with the west...
Learning from other countries: an on-call facility for health care policyEllen Nolte
Health Services Research Unit, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, UK
J Health Serv Res Policy 13:58-64. 2008..A formal evaluation of the influence on health care policy-making in England is not yet available. Such knowledge will be of crucial importance for the development of similar resources elsewhere...
The increase in very-low-birthweight infants in Germany: artefact or reality?Ellen Nolte
European Centre on Health of Societies in Transitions, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, UK
Paediatr Perinat Epidemiol 16:131-40. 2002..A fairly distinct east-west pattern in the birthweight distribution present in 1991 had almost disappeared by 1997 and given way to a north-south one...
Changing mortality patterns in East and West Germany and Poland. II: short-term trends during transition and in the 1990sE Nolte
European Centre on Health of Societies in Transition, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, Keppel Street, London WC1E 7HT
J Epidemiol Community Health 54:899-906. 2000....
Temporal and spatial pattern of infant mortality in Germany after unificationE Nolte
European Centre on Health of Societies in Transition, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
Soz Praventivmed 46:303-10. 2001..There is, however, still a substantial regional variation in infant mortality that is largely determined by postneonatal mortality...
What is happening to the health of the Croatian population?I Bozicevic
European Centre on Health of Societies in Transition, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, United Kingdom
Croat Med J 42:601-5. 2001....
The changing regional pattern of ischaemic heart disease mortality in southern Europe: still healthy but uneven progressL Hirte
European Centre on Health of Societies in Transition, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, UK
J Epidemiol Community Health 62:e4. 2008..To describe the evolving regional pattern of mortality from ischaemic heart disease (IHD) in five countries in southern Europe...
Lessons from health during the transition from communismMartin McKee
European Centre on Health of Societies in Transition, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London WC1E 7HT
BMJ 329:1428-9. 2004
Population health in Europe: how much is attributable to health care?Ellen Nolte
London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
World Hosp Health Serv 40:12-4, 40, 42. 2004..Inevitably, this is to a considerable extent a false dichotomy. Both are important. But how much does health care contribute to population health?..
Public involvement policies in health: exploring their conceptual basisSuzanne Wait
Judge Institute of Management, Cambridge University
Health Econ Policy Law 1:149-62. 2006....
The evolving pattern of avoidable mortality in RussiaEvgueni M Andreev
Laboratory of Analysis and Prognosis of Population Mortality, Centre of Demography and Human Ecology, Institute of Economic Forecasting, Russian Academy of Sciences, 47 Nakhimovsky Prospect, 117418 Moscow, Russian Federation
Int J Epidemiol 32:437-46. 2003....
Avoidable mortality in Lithuania: 1991-199 compared with 1970-1990Zeneta Logminiene
Clinic of Family Medicine, Kaunas University of Medicine, Eiveniu 2, 3007 Kaunas, Lithuania
Public Health 118:201-10. 2004..While this indicates some success in the development of medical care, it emphasises the need for more effective public health policies directed at the major determinants of health...
The implications for health of European Union enlargementMartin McKee
BMJ 328:1025-6. 2004
Evidence-based policy? The use of mobile phones in hospitalStefanie Ettelt
European Centre on Health of Societies in Transition, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, UK
J Public Health (Oxf) 28:299-303. 2006..Evidence-based policies have become increasingly accepted in clinical practice. However, policies on many of the non-clinical activities that take place in health care facilities may be less frequently evidence based...
Breast cancer mortality in Russia and Ukraine 1963-2002: an age-period-cohort analysisLale Hirte
European Centre on Health of Societies in Transition, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, Keppel Street, London WC1E 7HT, UK
Int J Epidemiol 36:900-6. 2007..To determine the reasons for the steady increase in breast cancer mortality in Russia and Ukraine...
Inequalities in birth outcomes in Russia: evidence from Tula oblastKirill Danishevski
Moscow Medical Academy, Moscow, Russian Federation
Paediatr Perinat Epidemiol 19:352-9. 2005....
Continuing influence of tobacco industry in GermanyAnna Gilmore
Lancet 360:1255; author reply 1255-6. 2002
How can quality of health care be safeguarded across the European Union?Helena Legido-Quigley
London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London WC1E 7HT
BMJ 336:920-3. 2008
Responding to the challenge of chronic diseases: ideas from EuropeMartin McKee
European Observatory on Health Care Systems, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
Clin Med 4:336-42. 2004..Finally it discusses how to overcome the barriers to change and the scope for learning from international experience...
