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 ...