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Mortality Implications of Mortality Plateaus [PDF]

SIAM Review, 2015
Summary: This article aims to describe in a unified framework all plateau-generating random effects models in terms of (i) plausible distributions for the hazard (baseline mortality) and the random effect (unobserved heterogeneity, frailty) as well as (ii) the impact of frailty on the baseline hazard.
Trifon I. Missov, James W. Vaupel
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The associations of factors with previous alcohol use in the Northern Territory compared to other states – an observational study

Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health, 2021
Background: Data on previous alcohol use in surgical patients who died in the Northern Territory (NT) are lacking and have important public health implications.
P. John Treacy, Therese Rey‐Conde, Jennifer Allen, Ryan T. Maloney, John B. North   +4 more
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Viability of internal comparisons for epidemiological research in the US astronaut corps

npj Microgravity, 2023
This study aims to determine whether astronauts who have not flown in space can provide an unbiased comparison to astronauts who have flown in space when analyzing long-term health outcomes such as incidence of chronic disease and mortality.
Robert J. Reynolds, Steven M. Day, Lakshmi Kanikkannan   +2 more
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Future Mortality in Low-Mortality Countries [PDF]

Institut für Demographie - VID, 2014
4802 This paper provides an overview of past and expected future trends in life expectancy in populations of today's low mortality countries. Because these populations previously experienced strong decreases in infant mortality, the future mortality trends will be driven mainly by mortality among the old and oldest-old.
Caselli, Graziella, Drefhal, Sven, Wegner-Siegmundt, Christian, Luy, Marc, Guillot, Michael, Meslé, France, Robles, Arodys, Rogers, Richard G., Tu, Edward Jow-Ching, Zhao, Zhongwei   +9 more
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Prioritizing Health Care Strategies to Reduce Childhood Mortality [PDF]

, 2022
IMPORTANCE: Although child mortality trends have decreased worldwide, deaths among children younger than 5 years of age remain high and disproportionately circumscribed to sub-Saharan Africa and Southern Asia.
Sesay, Tom, Fritz, Ashleigh, Mandomando, Inacio, Igunza, Kitiezo Aggrey, Swaray-Deen, Alim, Scott, J. Anthony G., Tapia, Milagritos D., Rees, Chris A, Ajanovic, Sara, Whitney, Cynthia G., Gurley, Emily S., Kotloff, Karen L, Xerinda, Elisio G, Mehta, Ashka, Keita, Adama M., Mutevedzi, Portia, Blau, Dianna M, Whitney, Cynthia G, Kelil, Yunus-Edris, Blau, Dianna M., Dufera, Tadesse, Assefa, Nega, Mannah, Margaret T., Ogbuanu, Ikechukwu U, Kotloff, Karen L., Seib, Katherine, Madhi, Shabir A, Tippett Barr, Beth A, Xerinda, Elisio G., Ogbuanu, Ikechukwu U., Madewell, Zachary J., Child Health and Mortality Prevention Surveillance Network, Mahtab, Sana, Gurley, Emily S, Tippett Barr, Beth A., El Arifeen, Shams, Spotts Whitney, Ellen A, Madhi, Shabir A., Sow, Samba O., Madewell, Zachary J, Akelo, Victor, Tapia, Milagritos D, Onyango, Dickens, Agaya, Janet, Keita, Adama M, Spotts Whitney, Ellen A., Bassat, Quique, Madrid, Lola, Scott, J Anthony G, Velaphi, Sithembiso, Mannah, Margaret T, Sitoe, Antonio, Sow, Samba O, Rees, Chris A., Oele, Elizabeth   +54 more
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An update on explaining the rural-urban gap in under-five mortality in India

BMC Public Health, 2022
Background Rural Indians have higher mortality rates than urban Indians. However, the rural-urban gap in under-five mortality has changed is less researched.
Chandan Kumar, Piyasa, Nandita Saikia
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Estimating excess mortality due to the COVID-19 pandemic: a systematic analysis of COVID-19-related mortality, 2020-21. [PDF]

, 2022
BACKGROUND: Mortality statistics are fundamental to public health decision making. Mortality varies by time and location, and its measurement is affected by well known biases that have been exacerbated during the COVID-19 pandemic.
COVID-19 Excess Mortality Collaborators
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How do responses vary between mothers and their daughters on measuring daughter’s self-rated health (SRH): a study among school-going adolescent girls in the primary setting of Varanasi, India

BMC Research Notes, 2022
Objective How self-rated health (SRH) varies when the response on SRH is recorded from the respondent herself (adolescent girl) and her mother on her behalf.
Ratna Patel, Dhananjay W. Bansod
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Correlates of poor self-rated health among school-going adolescent girls in urban Varanasi, India

BMC Public Health, 2023
Background The concept of self-rated health (SRH) has widely been studied among the adults and older population in developed as well as developing countries, including India.
Ratna Patel, Dhananjay W. Bansod
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Mortality and Excess Mortality: Improving FluMOMO [PDF]

SSRN Electronic Journal, 2021
FluMOMO is a universal formula to forecast mortality in 27 European countries and was developed on EuroMOMO context, http://www.euromomo.eu. The model has a trigonometric baseline and considers any upwards deviation from that to come from flu or extreme temperatures.
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