Bio Med Central | Population Health Metrics
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Population Health Metrics aims to advance the science of population health assessment and welcomes papers relating to concepts, methods, ethics, applications, and summary measures of population health. We discourage papers that are simply descriptive of disease trends without methodological advances.
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To forecast the annual burden of type 2 diabetes and related socio-demographic disparities in Belgium until 2030 ..read more
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1w ago
Disability-free life expectancy (DFLE) has been used to gain a better understanding of the population’s quality of life ..read more
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2w ago
Targeted marketing of menthol cigarettes in the US influences disparities in the prevalence of menthol smoking. There has been no analysis of sub-national data documenting differences in use across demographic ..read more
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1M ago
The impact of conflict and crisis on maternal and child health underscores the need for reliable research in vulnerable populations. Lebanon, amidst ongoing economic collapse, political instability, and health ..read more
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1M ago
Studying long-term trends in educational inequalities in health is important for monitoring and policy evaluation. Data issues regarding the allocation of people to educational groups hamper the study and inte ..read more
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2M ago
Denmark was one of the few countries that experienced an increase in life expectancy in 2020, and one of the few to see a decrease in 2021. Because COVID-19 mortality is associated with socioeconomic status (S ..read more
Bio Med Central | Population Health Metrics
3M ago
Accurate measurement of children’s anthropometry is of central importance for the assessment of nutritional status as well as for the evaluation of nutrition-specific interventions. Social distancing requireme ..read more
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Mortality data obtained from death certificates have been studied to explore causal associations between diseases. However, these analyses are subject to collider and reporting biases (selection and informatio ..read more
Bio Med Central | Population Health Metrics
6M ago
To develop public health intervention models using micro-simulations, extensive personal information about inhabitants is needed, such as socio-demographic, economic and health figures. Confidentiality is an e ..read more