مجله اپیدمیولوژی ایران, 2007 Background & Objectives: There is little doubt about the importance of accurate statistics and reliable information in the promoting community health and optimizing health care.
A Akbarzadeh Bagheban +2 more
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Fatality from COVID-19 does not affect palliative care duration among patients with advanced cancer: a retrospective cohort study [PDF]
Einstein (São Paulo)Objective: This study aimed at investigating the extent to which COVID-19-induced fatalities affect the duration of palliative care among patients with advanced cancer.
Rafael Tavares Jomar +5 more
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Insight into Stagnating Life Expectancy: Analysing Cause of Death Patterns across Socio-economic Groups [PDF]
, 2020 This article analyzes the complexity of female longevity improvements. As socio-economic status is found to influence health and mortality, we partition all individuals, at each age in every year, into five socio-economic groups based on an affluence ...
Blake, D. +3 more
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Pilot-testing a Cancer 101 Education Curriculum with the Fairbanks Native Association’s Women & Children’s Center for Inner Healing [PDF]
, 2014 Cancer is the leading cause of death among Alaska Native people Nevertheless, due to improved detection awareness about cancer prevention, early screening and advances in treatment survival rates are ...
Billings, James +3 more
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Follow-up of blood-pressure lowering and glucose control in type 2 diabetes. [PDF]
, 2014 BACKGROUND In the Action in Diabetes and Vascular Disease: Preterax and Diamicron Modified Release Controlled Evaluation (ADVANCE) factorial trial, the combination of perindopril and indapamide reduced mortality among patients with type 2 diabetes, but ...
Arima, H +29 more
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Quality of death notification forms in North West Bank/Palestine: a descriptive study
BMC Research Notes, 2017 Background The death notification forms (DNFs) are important documents. Thus, inability to fill it properly by physicians will affect the national mortality report and, consequently, the evidence-based decision making.
Jamal A. S. Qaddumi +3 more
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Death Under Control: The Portrayal of Death in Mass Print English Language Magazines in Canada [PDF]
, 2005 The purpose of this article is to discuss the portrayal of death in modern North American society in the highest circulating English language magazines available in Canada and published either in the United States or in Canada, in 1991, 1996, and 2001 ...
Clarke, Juanne Nancarrow
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Revista da Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical: INTRODUCTION: The morbidity and mortality profile in a given region reflects its quality of life and provides tools for improving public health policies in that region.
Gabriel de Deus Vieira +2 more
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Secondhand smoke exposure and risk of incident peripheral arterial disease and mortality: a Scotland-wide retrospective cohort study of 4045 non-smokers with cotinine measurement [PDF]
, 2018 Background: Active smoking is an important risk factor for all-cause mortality and peripheral arterial disease (PAD). In contrast, published studies on the associations with secondhand smoke (SHS) are limited.
Lu, Liya +2 more
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Haseki Tıp Bülteni, 2014 Aim: In this study, we evaluated the consistency between the records made in the hospital automation system as well as the causes of death in the death certificates.
Tanzer Korkmaz, Burçin Balaban
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