• This study tests the impact of the TCL on cardiovascular disease (CVD) related health outcomes, including morbidity and mortality. (who.int)
  • The report and a companion commentary are part of a new rural health series in CDC's Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR). (rupri.org)
  • Recently a number of publications looked at the association between COVID-19 morbidity and mortality on one hand and countries' policies with respect to BCG vaccination on the other. (medrxiv.org)
  • Title : Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, Vol. 2, no. 7, February 27, 1953 Corporate Authors(s) : United States, Public Health Service;United States National Office of Vital Statistics. (cdc.gov)
  • Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, Vol. 53, no. 29, July 30, 2004 Corporate Authors(s) : Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (U.S.) Published Date : July 30, 2004 Series : MMWR. (cdc.gov)
  • Liver disease is an important cause of morbidity and mortality in the U.S. - more than we have recognized in the past - and as physicians, we need to be aware of that," he says. (scienceblog.com)
  • As a result, inequalities in infant mortality increased, with the gap between the most and the least deprived local authority areas widening by 52 deaths per 100,000 births. (leeds.ac.uk)
  • In the context of increasing health inequalities in England, policies that reduce poverty and social inequalities are likely to reduce the occurrence of infant mortality and that of many other adverse child health outcomes. (leeds.ac.uk)
  • Scaling COVID-19 against inequalities: should the policy response consistently match the mortality challenge? (publichealthscotland.scot)
  • Background Smoking contributes to socioeconomic inequalities in mortality, but the extent to which this contribution has changed over time and driven widening or narrowing inequalities in total mortality remains unknown. (bmj.com)
  • We studied socioeconomic inequalities in smoking-attributable mortality and their contribution to inequalities in total mortality in 1990-1994 and 2000-2004 in 14 European countries. (bmj.com)
  • Results In 2000-2004, smoking-attributable mortality was higher in lower socioeconomic groups in all countries among men, and in all countries except Spain, Italy and Slovenia, among women, and the contribution of smoking to socioeconomic inequalities in mortality varied between 19% and 55% among men, and between −1% and 56% among women. (bmj.com)
  • Since 1990-1994, absolute inequalities in smoking-attributable mortality and the contribution of smoking to inequalities in total mortality have decreased in most countries among men, but increased among women. (bmj.com)
  • Conclusions In many European countries, smoking has become less important as a determinant of socioeconomic inequalities in mortality among men, but not among women. (bmj.com)
  • Inequalities in smoking remain one of the most important entry points for reducing inequalities in mortality. (bmj.com)
  • Reducing socioeconomic inequalities in mortality is an important challenge for public health and is one of the main priorities of the European Region of the WHO. (bmj.com)
  • In Europe, smoking is not only the largest avoidable health risk in the general population, 2 but it also constitutes the single most important contributor to socioeconomic inequalities in mortality, at least among men. (bmj.com)
  • Earlier, at the 47th session of the Regional Committee, Member States had adopted the Regional Strategy on Reproductive Health for the accelerated reduction of maternal and neonatal mortality in the Region. (who.int)
  • Also, several 'calls for action' to reduce neonatal mortality have been made and in response, both governmental and non-governmental institutions have contributed considerable resources to this global health challenge. (wikipedia.org)
  • METHODS AND RESULTS: Using US death records from 2003 to 2011 (n=3 897 040 CVD deaths), age-adjusted CVD mortality rates per 100 000 population and age-adjusted mortality rate ratios were calculated for the 6 largest Asian American subgroups (Asian Indian, Chinese, Filipino, Japanese, Korean, and Vietnamese) and compared with non-Hispanic whites. (sutterhealth.org)
  • Methods We analysed the WHO mortality database to determine trends in mortality from AS in the UK, Germany, France, Italy, Japan, Australia, the USA and Canada from 2000 to 2020. (bmj.com)
  • Methods: We compared mortality attributable to suicide, drug poisoning and socioeconomic inequality with estimates of mortality from an infectious disease model of COVID-19. (publichealthscotland.scot)
  • Methods We collected, harmonised and standardised population-wide data on all-cause and lung-cancer mortality by age, gender, educational and occupational level in 14 European populations in 1990-1994 and 2000-2004. (bmj.com)
  • Subject/methods We analyzed the associations of egg intake with aTCH and cause-speci﫿c and total mortality using the ND90 data set with a 15-year follow-up. (deepdyve.com)
  • New partial identification methods let us calculate mortality changes at constant education percentiles from 1992-2015. (marginalrevolution.com)
  • For subtypes of dairy products, whole milk intake was significantly associated with higher risks of total mortality (hazard ratio per 0.5 additional serving/day 1.11, 1.09 to 1.14), cardiovascular mortality (1.09, 1.03 to 1.15), and cancer mortality (1.11, 1.06 to 1.17). (bmj.com)
  • Ueshima, Hirotsugu 2017-12-29 00:00:00 Background/objective Egg intake was associated with serum total cholesterol adjusted for age (aTCH) and total mortality in women, but not in men, using data from NIPPON DATA (ND) 80 which followed up for 14 years. (deepdyve.com)
  • There were 183 cardiovascular disease (CVD), 210 cancer, and 599 total mortality cases during follow-up. (deepdyve.com)
  • Another recent report also showed a similar lack of improvement in fetal/perinatal mortality rates from 2014 through 2016. (cdc.gov)
  • In the most deprived local authorities, the previously declining trend in infant mortality reversed and mortality rose, leading to an additional 24 infant deaths per 100,000 live births per year, relative to the previous trend. (leeds.ac.uk)
  • By 2030, reduce the global maternal mortality rate to less than 70 deaths per 100,000 live births. (bvsalud.org)
  • Meanwhile the press has focused on these headlines and pushed the narrative that BCG vaccination is causally linked to infection and mortality rates. (medrxiv.org)
  • It suggests that BCG vaccination may have little or no causal link to infection rates and advises that any follow up studies should control for several confounding factors, such as population age, ethnicity, rates of certain chronic diseases, time from community spread start date, major public policy decisions and income levels. (medrxiv.org)
  • Worktableorig 12 shows death rates per 100,000 population for NCHS' mortality tabulation list of 358 selected causes of death. (cdc.gov)
  • This will inform the urgent action needed by national and local governments, and help drive the health and social care policies needed to reduce infant mortality rates. (leeds.ac.uk)
  • Study sites used to determine mortality rates during cholera epidemic, Haiti, 2010-2011: entire town of Gonaives, urban slum in Cap-Haïtien, rural communal sections in North Department, and communal section of Gaspard. (cdc.gov)
  • There were consistently lower mortality rates for all Asian American subgroups compared with non-Hispanic whites across divisions for CVD mortality and ischemic heart disease mortality. (sutterhealth.org)
  • A study of mortality amenable to health care in the United States shows a more than twofold variation in rates across the country. (commonwealthfund.org)
  • There are strong associations between state-level amenable mortality rates and demographic factors (e.g., poverty and race) and also to various health system-related indicators, like hospital readmission rates and care for diabetics and asthmatics. (commonwealthfund.org)
  • Previous studies have shown that the U.S. has failed to keep pace with rates of decline in amenable mortality in other countries. (commonwealthfund.org)
  • The variation in amenable mortality rates within the United States is more extensive than was observed in 19 industrialized countries in 2002-2003. (commonwealthfund.org)
  • Multiple health care indicators are associated with higher rates of mortality amenable to health care. (commonwealthfund.org)
  • As such, improving performance in these indicators (e.g., care for asthmatics or diabetics, hospital readmission rates) could help to improve amenable mortality rates, however the authors warn there is as yet no evidence. (commonwealthfund.org)
  • NCHS released a report last week that presents 2013 U.S. final mortality data on deaths and death rates by demographic and medical characteristics. (cdc.gov)
  • Specifically, the report measures the impact on infant mortality differences of two major factors: the percentage of preterm births and gestational age-specific infant mortality rates. (cdc.gov)
  • By presenting infant mortality rates by age at death, we show the differences in the likelihood of death between these two infant groups - information that can help inform the U.S. Public Health Community, families, and physicians on this critical age factor in infant lives and deaths. (cdc.gov)
  • Our new report looks at the overall trends in infant, neonatal and postneonatal mortality rates from 2007 (the most recent peak in infant mortality) through 2016. (cdc.gov)
  • For 2016, we looked at infant mortality rates by mother's race and Hispanic origin and age and cause of death. (cdc.gov)
  • We found that infants of non-Hispanic black mothers continue to have total, neonatal, and postneonatal mortality rates that were more than two times as high as infants of non-Hispanic white, Asian or Pacific Islander, or Hispanic mothers. (cdc.gov)
  • Infants of American Indian or Alaska Native mothers had the next highest rates and had postneonatal mortality rates that were similar to infants of non-Hispanic black mothers. (cdc.gov)
  • The most important message from this data brief is the lack of improvement in total infant mortality rates since 2011. (cdc.gov)
  • Neonatal infants of all race and Hispanic origin groups we examined have higher mortality rates than postneonatal infants. (cdc.gov)
  • There is evidence that mortality rates are highest in areas that are experiencing population decline, and researchers have recommended that this should be accounted for in health resource allocation. (bmj.com)
  • Overall and abortion-related maternal mortality rates in Uruguay over the past 25years and their association with policies and actions aimed at protecting women's rights. (bvsalud.org)
  • To evaluate changes in maternal mortality rates in Uruguay over the past 25years, as well as their distribution by cause, and their temporal relationship with social changes and Human Development Index (HDI) indicators . (bvsalud.org)
  • Crude and age-standardised mortality rates per 100 000 persons were calculated. (bmj.com)
  • Results During the observation period, the crude mortality rates per 100 000 persons increased in all the eight countries (from 3.47 to 5.87 in the UK, from 2.98 to 8.93 in Germany, from 3.84 to 5.52 in France, from 1.97 to 4.33 in Italy, from 1.12 to 5.49 in Japan, from 2.14 to 3.38 in Australia, from 3.58 to 4.22 in the USA and from 2.12 to 5.00 in Canada). (bmj.com)
  • Age-specific mortality rates in age group ≥80 years had shifts towards decreasing trends in all the eight countries in contrast to other younger age groups. (bmj.com)
  • Conclusions While crude mortality rates increased in the eight countries, shifts towards decreasing trends were identified in age-standardised mortality rates in three countries and in the elderly aged ≥80 years in the eight countries. (bmj.com)
  • While crude mortality rates of AS increased in eight studied countries (G7 plus Australia) during the two decades, age-standardised mortality rates were converted to decreasing trends in Germany from 2012, Australia from 2011 and the USA from 2014. (bmj.com)
  • Despite confirming that some subgroups of nondrinkers have a higher mortality rate than light drinkers, it doesn't necessarily follow that those people's mortality rates would fall if they began drinking, Rogers said. (scienceblog.com)
  • We aimed to calibrate the scale of the modelled mortality impact of COVID-19 using age-standardised mortality rates and life expectancy contribution against other, socially determined, causes of death in order to inform governments and the public. (publichealthscotland.scot)
  • We calculated age-standardised mortality rates and life expectancy contributions for the UK and its constituent nations. (publichealthscotland.scot)
  • Changing mortality rates among less educated Americans are difficult to interpret because the least educated groups (e.g. dropouts) become smaller and more negatively selected over time. (marginalrevolution.com)
  • Using multiple cause of death data, we calculated age-standardized opioid mortality rates, by race and opioid type, for the US resident population from 1979 to 2015. (lww.com)
  • We analyzed trends in mortality rates using joinpoint regression. (lww.com)
  • Conclusion These data from large cohorts do not support an inverse association between high amount of total dairy consumption and risk of mortality. (bmj.com)
  • Air pollution concentrations were linked to small area socioeconomic, population and mortality data. (bmj.com)
  • These data provide information on mortality patterns among U.S. residents by such variables as sex, race and ethnicity, and cause of death. (cdc.gov)
  • Mortality data for 1999-2001 were obtained from the General Register Office for Scotland (GROS) from which we calculated indirectly SMRs. (bmj.com)
  • For the new study, published in last month's issue of the journal Population Research and Policy Review , Rogers and his colleagues relied on data collected in 1988 by the National Health Interview Survey about the drinking habits of more than 41,000 people from across the United States. (scienceblog.com)
  • In order to discover the true impact of liver disease on the population, we analyzed mortality data using these more comprehensive criteria. (scienceblog.com)
  • We had a good correlation between the national statistics and the Olmsted County mortality data," says Dr. Kim. (scienceblog.com)
  • Using 27 years of data we compare habitat use, home range size, calf mortality, and predation risk between provisioned and non-provisioned females and their offspring before and after the MHW. (frontiersin.org)
  • In this paper, the author uses the 1973 cross-sectional Current Population Survey ( CPS ) matched to longitudinal Social Security administrative data (through 1998) to examine the relationship between retirement age and mortality for men who have lived to at least age 65 by 1997 or earlier. (ssa.gov)
  • While this paper does a good job of compiling and analyzing data about Covid deaths and excess mortality, and speculating about deaths of despair, I find one of its assumptions to be odd. (nakedcapitalism.com)
  • With the extraordinary social distancing continuing and mortality data accumulating, now is a good time to estimate the number of deaths of despair and their incidence. (nakedcapitalism.com)
  • From 1979 to 2015, the long-term trends in opioid-related mortality for Earlier data did not include ethnicity so this is incorrect. (lww.com)
  • Background Previous research using routine data identified rapid mass privatisation as an important driver of mortality crisis following the collapse of Communism in Central and Eastern Europe. (lse.ac.uk)
  • However, existing studies on the mortality crisis relying on individual level or routine data cannot assess both distal (societal) and proximal (individual) causes of mortality simultaneously. (lse.ac.uk)
  • It then incorporates data on mortality of different types of relatives of survey respondents, employing a retrospective demographic approach, which enables linkage of historical patterns of mortality to exposures, based on experiences of family members. (lse.ac.uk)
  • The U.S. Maternal Mortality Crisis Affec. (cbpp.org)
  • The swiftness of the decrease in maternal mortality per five-year period, the variation in the percentage of abortion -related deaths, and the correlation with HDI indicators were evaluated. (bvsalud.org)
  • Maternal mortality decreased significantly, basically due to a reduction in the number of deaths from unsafe abortion , which was the principal cause of maternal mortality in the 1990s. (bvsalud.org)
  • The reduction in maternal mortality over the past 10years also coincides with a reduction in poverty and an improvement in the HDI. (bvsalud.org)
  • A rapid reduction occurred in maternal mortality in Uruguay , particularly in maternal mortality resulting from unsafe abortion . (bvsalud.org)
  • 1. The maternal mortality ratio in the African Region, at an average of 940 per 100,000 live births, is the highest in the world. (who.int)
  • 2. There is a need for stronger commitment and political will on the part of Member States in addressing the problem of reducing the high maternal mortality in a co-ordinated manner. (who.int)
  • 4. It is in the interest of all Member States to identify possible strategies and initiatives for accelerating the reduction of maternal mortality. (who.int)
  • 5. Ultimately, the issue of reducing the Region's high maternal mortality ratio can be resolved by investing adequately in public education and health. (who.int)
  • 2. The paper starts by providing some basic information on maternal mortality. (who.int)
  • Finally, some suggestions on strategies for reducing maternal mortality are presented. (who.int)
  • 5. HIV/AIDs is increasingly becoming an important contributory factor in maternal mortality in some countries in the Region. (who.int)
  • Similar to other low- and middle-income countries (LMICs), post-adoption of MDG 4 in Ghana observed construction and implementation of maternal and child health policies and intervention programs towards objectifying MDG 4. (wikipedia.org)
  • The World Health Organization (WHO) has defined maternal mortality as "the death of a woman during pregnancy or up to 42 days after the end of pregnancy, irrespective of the length or location of pregnancy, due to any cause related to or aggravated by pregnancy or measures in relation to it, but not due to accidental or incidental causes. (bvsalud.org)
  • Maternal mortality is a challenge for global public health services, which is why it was included as part of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), as a way of mobilizing the world to combat the death of women from preventable causes related to pregnancy and childbirth. (bvsalud.org)
  • These studies typically use adjoint models, tagged-tracer, or zero-out (brute-force) approaches to assess the influence of individual surface sources on PM 2.5 mass and attributable mortality and morbidity. (nature.com)
  • Smoking-attributable mortality was indirectly estimated using the Preston-Glei-Wilmoth method. (bmj.com)
  • Although adjusted for differences in age-distribution and population size, rankings by state do not take into account other state specific population characteristics that may affect the level of mortality. (cdc.gov)
  • BACKGROUND: There are well-documented geographical differences in cardiovascular disease (CVD) mortality for non-Hispanic whites. (sutterhealth.org)
  • This study aims to examine geographical differences in CVD mortality among Asian American subgroups living in the United States and whether they are consistent with geographical differences observed among non-Hispanic whites. (sutterhealth.org)
  • However, cerebrovascular disease mortality demonstrated substantial geographical differences by Asian American subgroup. (sutterhealth.org)
  • Also, people who don't drink at all, as a group, have lower socioeconomic characteristics than light drinkers, which could be one of the underlying causes for the mortality differences, Rogers said. (scienceblog.com)
  • Amazingly, almost all of the projected mortality differences evaporate," Cullen told me. (stanford.edu)
  • The most reliable studies indicate a 20 to 30 per cent reduction in breast cancer mortality in women aged 50 to 69 who have been followed up until the age of 79,' says Professor Roar Johnsen of the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), who chaired the evaluation steering committee. (medicalnewstoday.com)
  • Slightly higher cancer mortality was non-significantly associated with dairy consumption, but warrants further investigation. (bmj.com)
  • 95% CI: 1.00-1.11) in the Pacific division who had significantly higher cerebrovascular mortality than non-Hispanic whites. (sutterhealth.org)
  • Provisioned females had significantly lower calf mortality than non-provisioned females, a pattern most evident pre-MHW, and, in the first 5 years after the MHW (peri-MHW, 2011-2015), calf mortality did not significantly increase for either group. (frontiersin.org)
  • Mortality in 2020 significantly exceeds the total of official COVID-19 deaths and a normal number of deaths from other causes. (nakedcapitalism.com)
  • See Comparability of Cause-of-death Between ICD Revisions at http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/mortality/comparability_icd.htm . (cdc.gov)
  • Discussion In addition to reinforcing existing evidence linking smoking, hazardous drinking and unemployment to mortality, the PrivMort dataset will investigate the variation in transition experiences for individual respondents and their families across settlements characterized by differing contextual factors, including industrial characteristics, simultaneously providing information about how excess mortality is distributed across settlements with various privatization strategies. (lse.ac.uk)
  • For the highest compared to the lowest category of total dairy consumption, the hazard ratio was 1.02 (0.95 to 1.08) for cardiovascular mortality and 1.05 (0.99 to 1.11) for cancer mortality. (bmj.com)
  • however, the impact of these improvements on overall mortality trends from AS across countries remains unclear. (bmj.com)
  • Although the deadline for the attainment of MDG 4 has passed, 99% of childhood mortality still occurs in LMICs. (wikipedia.org)
  • 3 4 A strong association exists between depression in late life and factors that increase mortality risk, such as poor adherence to medical treatment and self care for diabetes and cardiovascular disease, 5 health behaviors such as smoking and lack of physical activity, 6 cognitive impairment, 7 and disability. (bmj.com)
  • Geographic variations in cardiovascular disease mortality among Asian American subgroups, 2003-2011. (sutterhealth.org)
  • London's experience during the late Victorian years suggest that increased frequency of water supply has the potential to deliver further reductions in mortality in developing countries beyond the initial gains from improved water sources and treatment. (ehs.org.uk)
  • these areas also experienced greater air pollution reductions and mortality benefits compared to the least deprived areas. (bmj.com)
  • Those same studies have shown that a person's mortality risk also increases at the other end of the spectrum - among people who choose not to drink at all - though the risk is still much less than for heavy drinkers. (scienceblog.com)
  • We find that middle-age mortality increases among non-Hispanic whites are driven almost entirely by changes in the bottom 10% of the education distribution. (marginalrevolution.com)
  • In the current wave, increases in opioid mortality for both populations have been driven by heroin and synthetic opioids (e.g., fentanyl and its analogues). (lww.com)
  • That this variant comes with increased disease severity and mortality is particularly troubling news, given the highly contagious nature of B.1.1.7. (govexec.com)
  • We assessed 6-week mortality and, after matching on age, gender and severity of illness, measured the association between delays and mortality using conditional logistic regression. (bmj.com)
  • Geographic variation in CVD mortality in Asian Am subgroups. (sutterhealth.org)
  • However, it remains unknown whether similar geographical variation in CVD mortality exists for Asian American subgroups. (sutterhealth.org)
  • CONCLUSIONS: There was substantial geographical variation in Asian American subgroup mortality for cerebrovascular disease when compared with non-Hispanic whites. (sutterhealth.org)
  • In this study, authors led by former Commonwealth Fund executive vice president Stephen Schoenbaum examined the variation of amenable mortality across the U.S. and the extent to which this variation is associated with poverty and race, as well as other health system indicators. (commonwealthfund.org)
  • Conclusions Older adults with major depression in practices provided with additional resources to intensively manage depression had a mortality risk lower than that observed in usual care and similar to older adults without depression. (bmj.com)
  • For example, Davey Smith et al 2, 3 controlled for the proportion of the population in each county borough in social classes IV or V or with unclassified social class using partial correlations and, although this weakened the population change/mortality relation, the change was small and the broad conclusions remained unchanged. (bmj.com)
  • Standardised mortality ratios (SMRs) for all cause mortality were highest in those boroughs experiencing the greatest population decline. (bmj.com)
  • In 2004-2005, amenable mortality in the United States ranged from a low of 63.9 deaths per 100,000 people under age 75 in Minnesota to highs of 142.0 in Mississippi and 158.3 in the District of Columbia. (commonwealthfund.org)
  • Unsurprisingly, poorer, crowded districts had higher mortality from water-borne diseases. (ehs.org.uk)
  • In food substitution analyses, consumption of nuts, legumes, or whole grains instead of dairy foods was associated with a lower mortality, whereas consumption of red and processed meat instead of dairy foods was associated with higher mortality. (bmj.com)
  • Further, infants of non-Hispanic black women continue to have a higher risk of mortality than infants of non-Hispanic white, Asian or Pacific Islander, American Indian or Alaska Native, or Hispanic mothers. (cdc.gov)
  • As a class, people who don't drink at all have a higher mortality risk than light drinkers. (scienceblog.com)
  • So this idea that nondrinkers always have higher mortality than light drinkers isn't true," Rogers said. (scienceblog.com)
  • The other subgroup of abstainers - whose largest reason for not drinking appeared to be a dislike of the taste and to a lesser degree family responsibilities, religious or moral motivations or upbringing - had a 17 percent higher mortality risk over the follow-up period compared with light drinkers. (scienceblog.com)
  • The scientists also found that infrequent drinkers generally had a slightly higher mortality risk than light drinkers. (scienceblog.com)
  • Former drinkers whose cluster of reasons for not drinking now included being an alcoholic and problems with drinking, for example, had a 38 percent higher mortality risk than light drinkers over the follow-up period. (scienceblog.com)
  • By comparison, people who drink between one and two drinks per day, on average, have a 9 percent higher mortality rate than light drinkers, while people who drink between two and three drinks per day have a 49 percent higher mortality. (scienceblog.com)
  • People who consume more than three drinks per day had a 58 percent higher mortality risk over the follow-up period compared with light drinkers. (scienceblog.com)
  • The mortality rate due to COVID-19 was also higher than that of the general population. (healthline.com)
  • However, the ecosystem did not recover, and post-MHW (2016-2020), calf mortality was substantially higher, regardless of provisioning status. (frontiersin.org)
  • I find that men taking benefits at exactly age 62 have higher mortality risk than men taking benefits in any of the other four age groups. (ssa.gov)
  • I also find that men taking benefits at age 62 and 3 months to 62 and 11 months, age 63, and age 64 have higher mortality risk than men taking benefits at age 65 or older. (ssa.gov)
  • Estimates of mortality risk for 'early' retirees are lowered when higher-risk age 62 retirees are combined with age 63 and age 64 retirees and when age 62 retirees are compared with a reference variable of age 63 and older retirees. (ssa.gov)
  • The differential mortality literature clearly indicates that mortality risk is higher for low-educated males relative to high-educated males. (ssa.gov)
  • If low-educated males tend to retire early in relatively greater numbers than high-educated males, higher mortality risk for such individuals due to low educational attainment would be added to the higher mortality risk I find for early retirees relative to that for normal retirees. (ssa.gov)
  • The policy issue: patient engagementOccasionally, all citizens have to make important health decisions that affecthealth outcomes. (bvsalud.org)
  • But there is now evidence that we should look beyond these things when thinking about mortality: In a new study , Stanford researchers identified 22 socioeconomic and environmental variables that together are better indicators of early death than are race or geography. (stanford.edu)
  • Research into the association between mortality and population change has a long history, 1 but more recently Davey Smith et al 2 examined the relation between population change (1971-91) and mortality (1990-92) for 292 county boroughs and urban and rural remainders of counties in Britain. (bmj.com)
  • Main outcome measure Mortality risk based on a median follow-up of 98 (range 0.8-116.4) months through 2008. (bmj.com)
  • Objective To examine the association of consumption of dairy foods with risk of total and cause specific mortality in women and men. (bmj.com)
  • Patients diagnosed with a hip fracture are at substantial risk of major complications and mortality. (the-hospitalist.org)
  • Observational studies have suggested that accelerated surgery for a hip fracture is associated with lower risk of mortality and major complications. (the-hospitalist.org)
  • But nondrinkers are a diverse bunch, and the reasons people have for abstaining affects their individual mortality risk, in some cases lowering it on par with the risk for light drinkers, according to a University of Colorado study. (scienceblog.com)
  • But researchers at the University of Colorado Boulder, working with colleagues at the University of Colorado Denver, decided to examine whether characteristics of different subgroups of nondrinkers could explain the increased mortality risk. (scienceblog.com)
  • Former drinkers, however, had the highest mortality risk of all nondrinkers. (scienceblog.com)
  • For example, people who were problem drinkers in the past might increase their mortality risk further by starting to drink again. (scienceblog.com)
  • Conclusion Our findings suggest that delays at home, in transport and in accessing tertiary care are risk factors for mortality from febrile illness in northern Tanzania. (bmj.com)
  • However, I do find a change in mortality risk by education over time. (ssa.gov)
  • There were a number of regional divisions where certain Asian American subgroups (Filipino and Japanese men, Korean and Vietnamese men and women) possessed no mortality advantage compared with non-Hispanic whites. (sutterhealth.org)
  • IRS anticipates - but didn't commit to - reviewing the tables after 10 years or when a new study of individual-annuity mortality experience is published. (mercer.com)
  • Ours is the first study to our knowledge to use the social autopsy framework in a prospective cohort study and to determine which sociocultural and health system factors are associated with mortality. (bmj.com)
  • 1. Childbearing is highly unsafe in sub-Saharan Africa the huge mortality and morbidity in this part of the Region is the direct result of the serious defects in the social, cultural and economic backgrounds as well as in the inadequacies in existing health services. (who.int)
  • Evidence from epidemiological research indicates exposure to traffic is associated with a number of adverse health impacts including mortality, 2 3 myocardial infarction 4 5 and impaired lung development in children. (bmj.com)
  • The Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation (ASPE) is the principal advisor to the Secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services on policy development, and is responsible for major activities in policy coordination, legislation development, strategic planning, policy research, evaluation, and economic analysis. (hhs.gov)
  • There are strong associations between amenable mortality and several health care measures that remain statistically significant after controlling for race and poverty. (commonwealthfund.org)
  • The purpose of mammography examination is to detect tumours at an early enough stage to begin effective treatment and reduce mortality.The evaluation report was recently submitted to Minister of Health and Care Services Bent Høie. (medicalnewstoday.com)
  • The independent source for health policy research, polling, and news. (kff.org)
  • The independent source for health policy research, polling, and news, KFF is a nonprofit organization based in San Francisco, California. (kff.org)
  • We aimed to assess the sociocultural and health system factors associated with mortality from febrile illness in northern Tanzania. (bmj.com)
  • In the subsequent decade, from 1998 to 2008, some additional intervention programs and policies implemented were the Community-Based Health Planning and Services (CHPS), User Fees Exemption for Delivery (UFED), Focused Antenatal Care (FANC), and National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS). (wikipedia.org)
  • This policy brief was prepared at the request of the Human Resources Directorate of the Ministry of Public Health to inform the deliberations leading to the development of the national strategic plan for the health workforce. (bvsalud.org)
  • Strategies to support patient education and engagementshould therefore be a fundamental plank of health policy. (bvsalud.org)
  • Prospective studies have consistently shown an association between depression and increased mortality in older adults. (bmj.com)
  • The new tables reflect the same individual-annuity mortality basis as the 2019 proposal (with an extra year of mortality improvement) and produce life expectancies a year or two longer on average than the current tables. (mercer.com)