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Trends in inequality in length of life in India: a decomposition analysis by age and causes of death

Genus, 2017
Background Studies dealing with trends in inequality in length of life in India are rare. Studies documenting the contribution of age and causes of death to the inequality in length of life are more limited. Objective The study aims to examine the trends
Abhishek Singh, Ankita Shukla, Faujdar Ram, Kaushalendra Kumar   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Risky injection practices and HCV awareness in Chiang Mai Province, Thailand: a respondent-driven sampling study of people who inject drugs

BMC Public Health, 2020
Background People who inject drugs (PWID) are the most exposed to hepatitis C virus (HCV). In Thailand, drug use is highly criminalized, and harm reduction services are scarce. This study estimates risky injection practices and assesses the proportion of
Myrtille Prouté, Sophie Le Coeur, Métrey H. Tiv, Timothée Dub, Parinya Jongpaijitsakul, Anantika Ratnamhin, Chaisiri Angkurawaranon, Apinun Aramrattana, Marc Lallemant   +8 more
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Perception, environmental determinants, and health complications of excess weight in India: a mixed methods approach

Scientific Reports, 2023
In light of the high and rising prevalence of obesity, we studied females and males aged 25–54 years with excess weight in the Kolkata metropolitan region, one of India's main cities, to understand the perception, environmental determinants and health ...
Somdutta Barua, Nandita Saikia
doaj   +1 more source

Psychopathy and Mortality [PDF]

Journal of Forensic Sciences, 2017
AbstractIt is not known how mortality differs between psychopathic and nonpsychopathic individuals. We linked data from subjects having been in forensic mental examinations at Niuvanniemi Hospital during 1984–1993 to the data from the National Death Registry to estimate the association between psychopathy and mortality.
Tiihonen Jari, Kautiainen Hannu, Repo-Tiihonen Eila, Tiihonen Jari, Vaurio Olli   +4 more
openaire   +3 more sources

Interaction of physical activity on the association of obesity-related measures with multimorbidity among older adults: a population-based cross-sectional study in India

BMJ Open, 2021
Objective To explore the associations between obesity-related measures and multimorbidity among older Indian adults and the interactive effects of physical activity in those associations.Design A cross-sectional study was conducted using large ...
Shobhit Srivastava, Vinod Joseph K J, Drishti Dristhi, T Muhammad   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Bivariate stochastic modeling of functional response with natural mortality [PDF]

, 2010
A correction due to Abbott (1925) is the standard method of dealing with control mortality in insect bioassay to estimate the mortality of an insect conditional on control mortality not having occurred.
Skirvin, David J., D. J. Skirvin, Fenlon, John S., M. J. Faddy, Faddy, M. J., Skirvin, D., J. S. Fenlon, Faddy, Malcolm, Fenlon, John   +8 more
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Child suicide rates during the COVID-19 pandemic in England

Journal of Affective Disorders Reports, 2021
Background: There is concern about the impact of COVID-19, and the control measures to prevent the spread, on children's mental health. The aim of this work was to identify if there had been a rise of childhood suicide during the COVID pandemic.
David Odd, Tom Williams, Louis Appleby, David Gunnell, Karen Luyt   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Socioeconomic inequalities in the place of death in urban small areas of three Mediterranean cities

International Journal for Equity in Health, 2020
Background Dying at home is the most frequent preference of patients with advanced chronic conditions, their caregivers, and the general population. However, most deaths continue to occur in hospitals.
Andreu Nolasco, Manuel Fernández-Alcántara, Pamela Pereyra-Zamora, María José Cabañero-Martínez, José M. Copete, Adriana Oliva-Arocas, Julio Cabrero-García   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

Potential Work-related Exposure to SARS-CoV-2 by Standard Occupational Grouping Based on Pre-lockdown Working Conditions in France

Safety and Health at Work, 2023
This study aims to ascertain occupations potentially at greatest risk of exposure to SARS-CoV-2 based on pre-lockdown working conditions in France. We combined two French population-based surveys documenting workplace exposures to infectious agents, face-
Narges Ghoroubi, Emilie Counil, Myriam Khlat   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Hospitalization Through Families’ Eyes: Comparing Inpatient Care Quality for Children With Sickle Cell Disease and Cystic Fibrosis in Canada

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background Sickle cell disease (SCD) is a chronic, inherited hemoglobinopathy that requires frequent hospitalization for disease‐related complications. Canadian data on inpatient care is limited. This study compared caregiver‐reported hospital experiences of children with SCD to those with cystic fibrosis (CF), a chronic, autosomal recessive ...
Hailey M. Zwicker, Kyle Kemp, Perri Tutelman, Sharon H. J. Hou, Paul Fairie, Maria Santana, Gregory M. T. Guilcher, Taryn Fay‐McClymont, Glenda Bendiak, Wendy Pelletier, Nicola Wright, Fiona Schulte   +11 more
wiley   +1 more source