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...
David L Fone,Daniel M Farewell,Frank D Dunstan
David L Fone
Background: It is widely believed that the social environment has an important influence on health, but there is less certainty about how to measure specific factors within the social environment that could link the neigh...
Improving knowledge about disability transitions by adding retrospective information to panel surveys. Population health metrics [0.03%]
通过向面板调查添加回顾性信息来改善对残疾过渡的认识。人口健康计量学
James N Laditka,Douglas A Wolf
James N Laditka
Background: Panel data are often used to estimate key measures of public health, such as years lived with and without disability. Panel surveys commonly measure disability at intervals of one or two years, and occasionall...
Hypnotic use in a population-based sample of over thirty-five thousand interviewed Canadians [0.03%]
加拿大人口基础样本中三千余人的催眠使用情况访谈研究
Aliya Kassam,Scott B Patten
Aliya Kassam
Background: As with most medications, benzodiazepine and similar sedative hypnotics (BDZ/SSH) can produce both beneficial and adverse effects. Pharmacoepidemiological studies have been limited in their capacity to evaluat...
Estimating health-adjusted life expectancy conditional on risk factors: results for smoking and obesity [0.03%]
基于风险因素的健康调整生命年的估计：吸烟和肥胖的影响结果
Pieter H M van Baal,Rudolf T Hoogenveen,G Ardine de Wit et al.
Pieter H M van Baal et al.
Background: Smoking and obesity are risk factors causing a large burden of disease. To help formulate and prioritize among smoking and obesity prevention activities, estimations of health-adjusted life expectancy (HALE) f...
Deriving utility scores for co-morbid conditions: a test of the multiplicative model for combining individual condition scores [0.03%]
共病的效用权重计算：检验个体疾病权重合并的乘法模型
William Flanagan,Cameron N McIntosh,Christel Le Petit et al.
William Flanagan et al.
Background: The co-morbidity of health conditions is becoming a significant health issue, particularly as populations age, and presents important methodological challenges for population health research. For example, the ...