Comparing the health of low income and less well educated groups in the United States and Canada [0.03%]
美国和加拿大低收入及教育程度较低人群的健康状况比较研究
Ken Eng,David Feeny
Ken Eng
Background: A limited number of health status and health-related quality of life (HRQL) measures have been used for inter-country comparisons of population health. We compared the health of Canadians and Americans using a...
A six-year descriptive analysis of hospitalisations for ambulatory care sensitive conditions among people born in refugee-source countries [0.03%]
一份描述性分析报告:难民国籍人口因门诊可预防住院情况而出现的住院记录(为期六年)
Ignacio Correa-Velez,Zahid Ansari,Vijaya Sundararajan et al.
Ignacio Correa-Velez et al.
Background: Hospitalisation for ambulatory care sensitive conditions (ACSHs) has become a recognised tool to measure access to primary care. Timely and effective outpatient care is highly relevant to refugee populations g...
Model for estimating the population prevalence of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease: cross sectional data from the Health Survey for England [0.03%]
英国健康调查显示慢性阻塞性肺病患病率的估计模型:横断面资料
Luis C Nacul,Michael Soljak,Tom Meade
Luis C Nacul
Background: Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is a major but neglected public health problem. Currently 1.4% of the England population has a clinical diagnosis of COPD, but the true burden of the disease has no...
Ardeshir Khosravi,Richard Taylor,Mohsen Naghavi et al.
Ardeshir Khosravi et al.
Background: Among the available data provided by health information systems, data on mortality are commonly used not only as health indicators but also as socioeconomic development indices. Recognizing that in Iran accura...
Peter D White
Peter D White
Commentary on Prevalence of chronic fatigue syndrome in metropolitan, urban, and rural Georgia William C Reeves, James F Jones, Elizabeth Maloney, Christine Heim, David C Hoaglin, Roumiana S Boneva,...
Prevalence of chronic fatigue syndrome in metropolitan, urban, and rural Georgia [0.03%]
佐治亚州都市、城市和农村地区的慢性疲劳综合征患病率
William C Reeves,James F Jones,Elizabeth Maloney et al.
William C Reeves et al.
Background: Chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS) is a debilitating illness with no known cause or effective therapy. Population-based epidemiologic data on CFS prevalence are critical to put CFS in a realistic context for publi...
Descriptive epidemiology of selected birth defects, areas of Lombardy, Italy, 1999 [0.03%]
意大利伦巴第地区1999年选择出生缺陷的描述性流行病学
Giovanna Tagliabue,Roberto Tessandori,Fausta Caramaschi et al.
Giovanna Tagliabue et al.
Background: Birth defects are a leading cause of neonatal and infant mortality in Italy, however little is known of the etiology of most defects. Improvements in diagnosis have revealed increasing numbers of clinically in...
Investigating the spatial risk distribution of West Nile virus disease in birds and humans in southern Ontario from 2002 to 2005 [0.03%]
基于2002至2005年数据探索安大略省南部人类和鸟类中西尼罗河病毒疾病的时空风险分布规律
Heidi Beroll,Olaf Berke,Jeffrey Wilson et al.
Heidi Beroll et al.
Background: The West Nile virus (WNv) became a veterinary public health concern in southern Ontario in 2001 and has continued to threaten public health. Wild bird mortality has been shown to be an indicator for tracking t...
Counting drugs to understand the disease: the case of measuring the diabetes epidemic [0.03%]
通过药物使用衡量疾病流行情况——以糖尿病为例
Henrik Støvring,Morten Andersen,Henning Beck-Nielsen et al.
Henrik Støvring et al.
Background: Diabetes prevalence increases globally with severe consequences for afflicted individuals and societies. Data on diabetes incidence and diabetes related mortality on a population level are, however, scarce. As...
Revealing the burden of maternal mortality: a probabilistic model for determining pregnancy-related causes of death from verbal autopsies [0.03%]
揭示与怀孕有关的死亡原因:一种通过口头验尸确定孕产妇死亡概率模型
Edward Fottrell,Peter Byass,Thomas W Ouedraogo et al.
Edward Fottrell et al.
Background: Substantial reductions in maternal mortality are called for in Millennium Development Goal 5 (MDG-5), thus assuming that maternal mortality is measurable. A key difficulty is attributing causes of death for th...