The future burden of type 2 diabetes in Belgium: a microsimulation model
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by Elly Mertens, Junior Ocira, Diana Sagastume, Maria Salve Vasquez, Stefanie Vandevijvere and José L. Peñalvo
3d ago
To forecast the annual burden of type 2 diabetes and related socio-demographic disparities in Belgium until 2030 ..read more
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Age and sex-specific disability-free life expectancy in urban and rural settings of Bangladesh
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by Khandaker Tanveer Ahmed, Aziza Afrin, Mehedi Hasan, Sajjad Bin Sogir, Labiba Rahman, Md. Karimuzzaman, Kazi Arifur Rahman, Md. Moyazzem Hossain and Hafiz T. A. Khan
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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Prevalence of menthol cigarette use among adults who smoke from the United States by census division and demographic subgroup, 2002–2020: findings from the International Tobacco Control (ITC) project
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by Pete Driezen, Shannon Gravely, Karin A. Kasza, Mary E. Thompson, K. Michael Cummings, Andrew Hyland and Geoffrey T. Fong
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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Building a maternal and child cohort amidst Lebanon’s socioeconomic collapse: preliminary results and navigating research challenges
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by Rima Kaddoura, Martine Elbejjani, Hani Tamim, Ziyad R. Mahfoud, Pascale Salameh, Fadi Mirza and Lama Charafeddine
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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Enabling the examination of long-term mortality trends by educational level for England and Wales in a time-consistent and internationally comparable manner
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by Fanny Janssen, Wanda Van Hemelrijck, Eva Kagenaar and Alison Sizer
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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The impact of COVID-19 on life expectancy across socioeconomic groups in Denmark
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by Cosmo Strozza, Serena Vigezzi, Julia Callaway and José Manuel Aburto
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
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Feasibility of caregiver-administered anthropometric measurements of children under age 5: evidence from Zambia
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by Günther Fink, Mpela Chembe, Savanna Henderson, Peter C Rockers and Doug Parkerson
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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War and Population Health: there is no metric for the horror
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by Jonathan M. Samet
3M ago
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Collider and reporting biases involved in the analyses of cause of death associations in death certificates: an illustration with cancer and suicide
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by Moussa Laanani, Vivian Viallon, Joël Coste and Grégoire Rey
4M ago
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
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Constructing synthetic populations in the age of big data
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by Mioara A. Nicolaie, Koen Füssenich, Caroline Ameling and Hendriek C. Boshuizen
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
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