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Probabilistic Cause-of-death Assignment using Verbal Autopsies [PDF]
arXiv, 2014 In regions without complete-coverage civil registration and vital statistics systems there is uncertainty about even the most basic demographic indicators. In such areas the majority of deaths occur outside hospitals and are not recorded. Worldwide, fewer than one-third of deaths are assigned a cause, with the least information available from the most ...
T. McCormick +5 more
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The ever‐increasing importance of cancer as a leading cause of premature death worldwide
Cancer, 2021 The relative importance of cardiovascular disease (CVD) and cancer as leading causes of premature death are examined in this communication. CVD and cancer are now the leading causes in 127 countries, with CVD leading in 70 countries (including Brazil and
F. Bray +3 more
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Cause-of-death statistics in 2020 in the Republic of Korea
Journal of Korean Medical Association, 2023 Background: This study analyzed the causes of death in the Korean population in 2020.Methods: Cause-of-death data for 2020 from Statistics Korea were examined based on the Korean Standard Classification of Diseases and Causes of Death, 7th revision and ...
Hyongjoon Noh +6 more
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The COVID‐19 pandemic and cause of death
Sociology of Health and Illness, 2021 This article explores the emergence and development of Death Certificates as a means of establishing the cause of death for individuals and populations.
D. Armstrong
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Causes of death in Vanuatu [PDF]
Population Health Metrics, 2016 The population of the Pacific Melanesian country of Vanuatu was 234,000 at the 2009 census. Apart from subsistence activities, economic activity includes tourism and agriculture. Current completeness of vital registration is considered too low to be usable for national statistics; mortality and life expectancy (LE) are derived from indirect demographic
Griffith Harrison +11 more
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Population 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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Using excess deaths and testing statistics to improve estimates of COVID-19 mortalities [PDF]
Eur. J. Epidemiol. 36, 545--558 (2021), 2021 Factors such as non-uniform definitions of mortality, uncertainty in disease prevalence, and biased sampling complicate the quantification of fatality during an epidemic. Regardless of the employed fatality measure, the infected population and the number of infection-caused deaths need to be consistently estimated for comparing mortality across regions.
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European Heart Journal Supplements, 2023 Abstract Sudden cardiac death (SCD) pathophysiological point of view can be either mechanical or electrical. In case of mechanical SCD, the most frequent causes are pulmonary thromboembolism and cardiac tamponade due to intrapericardial rupture (aortic dissection, heart rupture).
De Gaspari, Monica +3 more
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BMC 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
Российский 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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