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Avoidable Mortality Across US States and High-Income Countries.

JAMA Intern Med
ImportanceAlthough there are increasing differences in health policy and population health across US states over the past decade, little is known about how US states compare with other countries on avoidable mortality.ObjectiveTo compare trends in avoidable mortality across US states and countries in the European Union (EU) and the Organisation for ...
Papanicolas I, Niksch M, Figueroa JF.
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Infective Endocarditis in High-Income Countries

Metabolites, 2022
Infective endocarditis remains an illness that carries a significant burden to healthcare resources. In recent times, there has been a shift from Streptococcus sp. to Staphylococcus sp. as the primary organism of interest. This has significant consequences, given the virulence of Staphylococcus and its propensity to form a biofilm, rendering non ...
Francesco Nappi, Giorgia Martuscelli, Francesca Bellomo, Sanjeet Singh Avtaar Singh, Marc R. Moon   +4 more
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Child death in high-income countries [PDF]

The Lancet, 2014
Although high income countries have made substantial progress towards reducing child mortality over recent decades, rates vary markedly between and within countries, and modifiable factors continue to be identified in many deaths. A series of three articles in The Lancet has described the epidemiology of child mortality and a standardised approach to ...
Sidebotham, P, Fraser, J, Petrou, S, al., E   +3 more
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The HIV Epidemic: High-Income Countries [PDF]

Cold Spring Harbor Perspectives in Medicine, 2012
The HIV epidemic in higher-income nations is driven by receptive anal intercourse, injection drug use through needle/syringe sharing, and, less efficiently, vaginal intercourse. Alcohol and noninjecting drug use increase sexual HIV vulnerability. Appropriate diagnostic screening has nearly eliminated blood/blood product-related transmissions and, with ...
Sten H, Vermund, Andrew J, Leigh-Brown
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Rising between-workplace inequalities in high-income countries [PDF]

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2020
SignificanceUnderstanding the causes of rising inequality is of concern in many countries. Using administrative data, we find that the share of inequality that is between workplaces is growing in 12 of 14 countries examined, and in no country has it fallen. Countries with declining employment protections see growth in both between- and within-workplace
Donald Tomaskovic-Devey, Anthony Rainey, Dustin Avent-Holt, Nina Bandelj, István Boza, David Cort, Olivier Godechot, Gergely Hajdu, Martin Hällsten, Lasse Folke Henriksen, Are Skeie Hermansen, Feng Hou, Jiwook Jung, Aleksandra Kanjuo-Mrčela, Joe King, Naomi Kodama, Tali Kristal, Alena Křížková, Zoltán Lippényi, Silvia Maja Melzer, Eunmi Mun, Andrew Penner, Trond Petersen, Andreja Poje, Mirna Safi, Max Thaning, Zaibu Tufail   +26 more
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Global mental health in high-income countries [PDF]

British Journal of Psychiatry, 2016
SummaryOver the past decade there have been significant efforts to scale-up mental health services in resource-poor countries. A number of cost-effective innovations have emerged as a result. At the same time, there is increasing concern in resource-rich countries about efficacy ...
Sashidharan, S.P., White, Ross, Mezzina, Roberto, Jansen, Stefan, Gishoma, Darius   +4 more
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Stillbirths: recall to action in high-income countries [PDF]

The Lancet, 2016
Variation in stillbirth rates across high-income countries and large equity gaps within high-income countries persist. If all high-income countries achieved stillbirth rates equal to the best performing countries, 19,439 late gestation (28 weeks or more) stillbirths could have been avoided in 2015.
Vicki Flenady, Aleena M Wojcieszek, Philippa Middleton, David Ellwood, Jan Jaap Erwich, Michael Coory, T Yee Khong, Robert M Silver, Gordon C S Smith, Frances M Boyle, Joy E Lawn, Hannah Blencowe, Susannah Hopkins Leisher, Mechthild M Gross, Dell Horey, Lynn Farrales, Frank Bloomfield, Lesley McCowan, Stephanie J Brown, K S Joseph, Jennifer Zeitlin, Hanna E Reinebrant, Joanne Cacciatore, Claudia Ravaldi, Alfredo Vannacci, Jillian Cassidy, Paul Cassidy, Cindy Farquhar, Euan Wallace, Dimitrios Siassakos, Alexander E P Heazell, Claire Storey, Lynn Sadler, Scott Petersen, J Frederik Frøen, Robert L Goldenberg, Vicki Flenady, J Frederik Frøen, Mary V Kinney, Luc de Bernis, Joy E Lawn, Hannah Blencowe, Alexander Heazell, Susannah Hopkins Leisher, Jessica Ruidiaz, Andre Carvalho, Jane Dahlstrom, Christine East, Jane P Fox, Kristen Gibbons, Ibinabo Ibiebele, Sue Kildea, Glenn Gardener, Rohan Lourie, Patricia Wilson, Adrienne Gordon, Belinda Jennings, Alison Kent, Susan McDonald, Kelly Merchant, Jeremy Oats, Susan P Walker, Leanne Raven, Anne Schirmann, Francine de Montigny, Grace Guyon, Beatrice Blondel, Sabine de Wall, Sheelagh Bonham, Paul Corcoran, Mairie Cregan, Sarah Meany, Margaret Murphy, Stephanie Fukui, Sanne Gordijn, Fleurisca Korteweg, Robin Cronin, Vicki Mason, Vicki Culling, Anna Usynina, Karin Pettersson, Ingela Rådestad, Susanne van Gogh, Bia Bichara, Stephanie Bradley, Alison Ellis, Soo Downe, Elizabeth Draper, Brad Manktelow, Janet Scott, Lucy Smith, William Stones, Tina Lavender, Wes Duke, Ruth C Fretts, Katherine J Gold, Elizabeth McClure, Uma Reddy   +97 more
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Surgical site infection after gastrointestinal surgery in high-income, middle-income, and low-income countries : a prospective, international, multicentre cohort study [PDF]

, 2018
Background Surgical site infection (SSI) is one of the most common infections associated with health care, but its importance as a global health priority is not fully understood.
HASH(0x559ad8704578), Lilford, Richard
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Processed foods and the nutrition transition: evidence from Asia [PDF]

, 2014
This paper elucidates the role of processed foods and beverages in the ‘nutrition transition’ underway in Asia. Processed foods tend to be high in nutrients associated with obesity and diet-related non-communicable diseases: refined sugar, salt ...
Baker, Phillip, Friel, Sharon
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Impact of Pneumococcal Conjugate Vaccines on Pneumonia Hospitalizations in High- and Low-Income Subpopulations in Brazil. [PDF]

, 2017
BackgroundPneumococcal conjugate vaccines (PCVs) are being used worldwide. A key question is whether the impact of PCVs on pneumonia is similar in low- and high-income populations.
Kürüm, Esra, Lustig, Roger, Schuck-Paim, Cynthia, Shioda, Kayoko, Simonsen, Lone, Taylor, Robert J, Warren, Joshua L, Weinberger, Daniel M   +7 more
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