Mortality registration and surveillance in China: History, current situation and challenges [0.03%]
中国的死亡登记和监测：历史、现状与挑战
Gonghuan Yang,Jianping Hu,Ke Quin Rao et al.
Gonghuan Yang et al.
BACKGROUND: Mortality statistics are key inputs for evidence based health policy at national level. Little is known of the empirical basis for mortality statistics in China, which accounts for roughly one-fifth of the world's population. An...
Karl A Lorenz,Steven M Asch,Elizabeth M Yano et al.
Karl A Lorenz et al.
BACKGROUND: We aimed to determine optimal strategies for complete mortality ascertainment comparing death certificates and United States (US) Veterans Administration (VA) records. METHODS: We constructed a cohort of California veterans who ...
The pre-vaccination regional epidemiological landscape of measles in Italy: contact patterns, effort needed for eradication, and comparison with other regions of Europe [0.03%]
意大利麻疹疫苗接种前的地区流行病学景观：接触模式、根除所需的力度以及与其他欧洲地区的比较
Piero Manfredi,Eugene M Cleur,John R Williams et al.
Piero Manfredi et al.
BACKGROUND: Strong regional heterogeneity and generally sub-optimal rates of measles vaccination in Italy have, to date, hampered attainment of WHO targets for measles elimination, and have generated the need for the new Italian National Me...
Assessment of possible impact of a health promotion program in Korea from health risk trends in a longitudinally observed cohort [0.03%]
基于纵向观察队列的健康风险趋势评估韩国一项卫生促进计划的可能影响
J Park,Sh Jee,Dw Edington
J Park
BACKGROUND: Longitudinally observed cohort data can be utilized to assess the potential for health promotion and healthcare planning by comparing the estimated risk factor trends of non-intervened with that of intervened. The paper seeks (1...
The impact of antidepressant treatment on population health: synthesis of data from two national data sources in Canada [0.03%]
基于加拿大两个国家级数据源的抗抑郁药治疗对人群健康影响的综合分析
Scott B Patten
Scott B Patten
BACKGROUND: In randomized, controlled trials, antidepressant medications have been shown to reduce the duration of major depressive episodes and to reduce the frequency of relapse during long-term treatment. The epidemiological impact of an...
Dichotomous factor analysis of symptoms reported by UK and US veterans of the 1991 Gulf War [0.03%]
英国和美国海湾战争退伍军人所报症状的分叉因素分析
Rosane Nisenbaum,Khalida Ismail,Simon Wessely et al.
Rosane Nisenbaum et al.
BACKGROUND: Factor analysis is one of the most used statistical techniques to analyze the inter-relationships among symptoms reported by Gulf War veterans. The objective of this study was to apply factor analyses to binary symptom data from...
David S Brennan,A John Spencer
David S Brennan
BACKGROUND: Australian burden of disease estimates appeared inconsistent with the reported repetitive and ubiquitous nature of dental problems. The aims of the study were to measure the nature, severity and duration of symptoms for specific...
Estimating age conditional probability of developing disease from surveillance data [0.03%]
利用监测数据估计某一疾病的发生条件概率
Michael P Fay
Michael P Fay
Fay, Pfeiffer, Cronin, Le, and Feuer (Statistics in Medicine 2003; 22; 1837-1848) developed a formula to calculate the age-conditional probability of developing a disease for the first time (ACPDvD) for a hypothetical cohort. The novelty of...
Using linked data to calculate summary measures of population health: Health-adjusted life expectancy of people with Diabetes Mellitus [0.03%]
利用链接数据计算人口健康综合指标：糖尿病患者调整预期寿命
Douglas G Manuel,Susan E Schultz
Douglas G Manuel
OBJECTIVES: To estimate the health-adjusted life expectancy (HALE) from diabetes mellitus (DM) using a population health survey linked to a population-based DM registry. METHODS: The 1996/97 Ontario Health Survey (N = 35,517) was linked to ...
A comparison of sexual behaviour and attitudes of healthy adolescents in a Danish high school in 1982, 1996, and 2001 [0.03%]
丹麦高中生1982年、1996年和2001年的性行为及态度的比较研究
Ida Kangas,Berit Andersen,Christine A McGarrigle et al.
Ida Kangas et al.
AIM: To assess changes in sexual behaviour among students at a high school in Denmark from 1982 to 2001. METHODS: An anonymous self-administered questionnaire was used to compare data from three identical cross-sectional surveys performed i...