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- 1From: Population Health Metrics. (Vol. 10, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedA comprehensive revision of the Global Burden of Disease (GBD) study is expected to be completed in 2012. This study utilizes a broad range of improved methods for assessing burden, including closer attention to...
- 2From: Population Health Metrics. (Vol. 10, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedBackground Although obesity is a risk factor for many chronic diseases, we have only limited knowledge of the magnitude of these associations in young adults. A multiethnic cohort of young adults was established to...
- 3From: Population Health Metrics. (Vol. 10, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedBackground Self-reported height and weight are commonly collected at the population level; however, they can be subject to measurement error. The impact of this error on predicted risk, discrimination, and...
- 4From: Population Health Metrics. (Vol. 10, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedBackground The goals of our study are to determine the most appropriate model for alcohol consumption as an exposure for burden of disease, to analyze the effect of the chosen alcohol consumption distribution on the...
- 5From: Population Health Metrics. (Vol. 10, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedThe objectives of this study were to estimate life expectancy (LE) and health-adjusted life expectancy (HALE) for Canadians with and without diabetes and to evaluate the impact of diabetes on population health using...
- 6From: Population Health Metrics. (Vol. 10, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedBackground Alcohol consumption is a major risk factor for injuries; however, international data on this burden are limited. This article presents new methods to quantify the burden of injuries attributable to alcohol...
- 7From: Population Health Metrics. (Vol. 10, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedWhen disability-adjusted life years are used to measure the burden of disease on a population in a time interval, they can be calculated in several different ways: from an incidence, pure prevalence, or hybrid...
- 8From: Population Health Metrics. (Vol. 10, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedBackground Infertility is a significant disability, yet there are no reliable estimates of its global prevalence. Studies on infertility prevalence define the condition inconsistently, rendering the comparison of...
- 9From: Population Health Metrics. (Vol. 10, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedBackground Income has been extensively studied and utilized as a determinant of health. There are several sources of income expressed as gross domestic product (GDP) per capita, but there are no time series that are...
- 10From: Population Health Metrics. (Vol. 10, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedBackground Measured or modeled levels of outdoor air pollution are being used as proxies for individual exposure in a growing number of epidemiological studies. We studied the accuracy of such approaches, in...
- 11From: Population Health Metrics. (Vol. 10, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedObjective To systematically review the methodology of general burden of disease studies. Three key questions were addressed: 1) what was the quality of the data, 2) which methodological choices were made to calculate...
- 12From: Population Health Metrics. (Vol. 10, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedBackground During 2010, a community-based, sentinel site prospective surveillance system measured mortality, acute malnutrition prevalence, and the coverage of a Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) intervention...
- 13From: Population Health Metrics. (Vol. 10, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedBackground Little is known about adult health and mortality relationships outside high-income nations, partly because few datasets have contained biomarker data in representative populations. Our objective is to...
- 14From: Population Health Metrics. (Vol. 10, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedBackground Stunting results from decreased food intake, poor diet quality, and a high burden of early childhood infections, and contributes to significant morbidity and mortality worldwide. Although food insecurity...
- 15From: Population Health Metrics. (Vol. 10, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedBackground Overweight and obesity prevalence are commonly used for public and policy communication of the extent of the obesity epidemic, yet comparable estimates of trends in overweight and obesity prevalence by...
- 16From: Population Health Metrics. (Vol. 10, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedThe use of Global Positioning Systems (GPS) and Geographical Information Systems (GIS) in disease surveys and reporting is becoming increasingly routine, enabling a better understanding of spatial epidemiology and the...
- 17From: Population Health Metrics. (Vol. 10, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedThis essay asks whether the global burden of diseases, injuries, and risk factors (GBD) should be measured in terms of their consequences for health, as maintained by most of those who are attempting to measure the GBD,...