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Changes in liver-related mortality by etiology and sequelae: underlying versus multiple causes of death

open access: yesPopulation Health Metrics, 2021
Background The expanded definition of liver-related deaths includes a wide range of etiologies and sequelae. We compared the changes in liver-related mortality by etiology and sequelae for different age groups between 2008 and 2018 in the USA using both ...
Ming-Jen Sheu   +3 more
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Barriers in adult vitamin D service provision by health care workers: a qualitative study in three ecologies of Ethiopia

open access: yesBMC Nutrition, 2021
Background Adult vitamin D deficiency, which is a public health problem in low-income countries, is correlated with increased mortality. Although health care workers (HCWs) in Ethiopia are educated on important minerals their counseling on the uses of ...
Wubegzier Mekonnen   +6 more
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Ischemic heart disease: medical certificate of cause of death analysis

open access: yesРоссийский кардиологический журнал, 2022
Aim. According to data from the Moscow Oblast civil registry office in 2020, to analyze medical certificates of cause of death (MCCD), where the code from “Ischemic heart disease” (IHD) (I20-I25) group is indicated as underlying cause of death (UCD ...
I. V. Samorodskaya   +3 more
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Neonatal deaths in rural Karnataka, India 2014–2018: a prospective population-based observational study in a low-resource setting

open access: yesReproductive Health, 2020
Background Neonatal mortality causes a substantial proportion of the under-5 mortality in low and middle-income countries (LMIC). Methods We undertook a prospective, population-based research study of pregnant women residing in defined geographic areas ...
Sangappa M. Dhaded   +11 more
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Causes of death in Brazil

open access: yesBrazilian Journal of Oral Sciences, 2020
Aim: In this study we described the causes of mortality in Brazil, its 5 geographic regions, and in the most populated cities of Sao Paulo State in order to contribute for development of prevention and intervention strategies.
Matheus Ferreira Linares   +5 more
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Avoidable mortality among long-stay patients with schizophrenia under different smoking-restriction settings

open access: yesTaiwanese Journal of Psychiatry, 2019
Objective: Patients with schizophrenia are at a greater risk of avoidable death. Although smoking is a modifiable factor to reduce the mortality gap, the rate of quitting smoking in these inpatients is still lower than that in the general population.
Kan- Yuan Cheng, Shu- Yuan Chen
doaj   +1 more source

Improving cause of death certification in the Philippines: implementation of an electronic verbal autopsy decision support tool (SmartVA auto-analyse) to aid physician diagnoses of out-of-facility deaths

open access: yesBMC Public Health, 2021
Background The majority of deaths in the Philippines occur out-of-facility and require a medical certificate of cause of death by Municipal Health Officers (MHOs) for burial.
Rohina Joshi   +14 more
doaj   +1 more source

Cause-specific mortality in Korea during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic [PDF]

open access: yesEpidemiology and Health, 2022
OBJECTIVES This study aimed to examine the trends in total mortality between 1998 and 2020 and to compare the changes in a wide range of detailed causes of death between 2020 (i.e., during the coronavirus disease 2019 [COVID-19] pandemic) and the ...
Jinwook Bahk, Kyunghee Jung-Choi
doaj   +1 more source

Cultivating research interest among undergraduate students: Becoming a career physician-scientist

open access: yesJournal of the Pakistan Medical Association
Although the importance of scientific research is self-evident, there need to be more physician-scientists1. There is a concern regarding how research interest can be cultivated among undergraduate students.
Shigeki Jin   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

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