Autoregression as a means of assessing the strength of seasonality in a time series [0.03%]
自回归法在时间序列周期性评估中的应用
Rahim Moineddin,Ross EG Upshur,Eric Crighton et al.
Rahim Moineddin et al.
BACKGROUND: The study of the seasonal variation of disease is receiving increasing attention from health researchers. Available statistical tests for seasonality typically indicate the presence or absence of statistically significant season...
Cross-national agreement on disability weights: the European Disability Weights Project [0.03%]
国际间残障权重的共识：欧洲残障权重项目
Michaël Schwarzinger,Marlies EA Stouthard,Kristina Burström et al.
Michaël Schwarzinger et al.
BACKGROUND: Disability weights represent the relative severity of disease stages to be incorporated in summary measures of population health. The level of agreement on disability weights in Western European countries was investigated with d...
Carla J Machado,Ken Hill
Carla J Machado
BACKGROUND: Early infant morbidities may produce adverse outcomes in subsequent life. A low Apgar score is a convenient measure of early infant morbidity. We study determinants of early infant morbidity (sex, plurality, mode of delivery, pr...
Colin D Mathers,Christopher JL Murray
Colin D Mathers
Population Health Metrics is an open-access online electronic journal published by BioMed Central - it is universally and freely available online to everyone, its authors retain copyright, and it is archived in at least one internationally ...
Christopher JL Murray,Majid Ezzati,Alan D Lopez et al.
Christopher JL Murray et al.
Reliable and comparable analysis of risks to health is key for preventing disease and injury. Causal attribution of morbidity and mortality to risk factors has traditionally been conducted in the context of methodological traditions of indi...
Martin I Tobias,Jit Cheung
Martin I Tobias
BACKGROUND: Socioeconomic and ethnic inequalities in health are of great concern, and life expectancy provides a readily understood means of monitoring such inequalities. The objectives of this study are to (1) measure life expectancy by so...
A longitudinal analysis of the risk factors for diabetes and coronary heart disease in the Framingham Offspring Study [0.03%]
Alok Bhargava
Alok Bhargava
BACKGROUND: The recent trends in sedentary life-styles and weight gain are likely to contribute to chronic conditions such as hypertension, diabetes, and cardiovascular diseases. The temporal sequence and pathways underlying these condition...
A generic model for the assessment of disease epidemiology: the computational basis of DisMod II [0.03%]
Jan J Barendregt,Gerrit J Van Oortmarssen,Theo Vos et al.
Jan J Barendregt et al.
Epidemiology as an empirical science has developed sophisticated methods to measure the causes and patterns of disease in populations. Nevertheless, for many diseases in many countries only partial data are available. When the partial data ...
Michelle E Kruijshaar,Jan J Barendregt,Lonneke V Van De Poll-Franse
Michelle E Kruijshaar
BACKGROUND: Health policy and planning depend on quantitative data of disease epidemiology. However, empirical data are often incomplete or are of questionable validity. Disease models describing the relationship between incidence, prevalen...
Colin D Mathers,Christopher JL Murray,Majid Ezzati et al.
Colin D Mathers et al.
Valid, reliable and comparable measures of the health states of individuals and of the health status of populations are critical components of the evidence base for health policy. We need to develop population health measurement strategies ...