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Burden of cancer in Poland analysed using potential years of life lost [PDF]
Contemporary Oncology, 2020 The aim was to assess the impact of the most frequent cancer-related causes of death in Poland by estimating the years of potential life lost (YPLL) and to compare different measures of the burden of cancer deaths on the population.Mortality rate, YPLL and mean YPLL were calculated for the 11 most frequently recorded cancer-related causes of death in ...
Katarzyna Orlewska +2 more
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Firearms: the leading cause of years of potential life lost
Trauma Surgery & Acute Care Open, 2022 Objectives Data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) show that firearm deaths are increasing in the USA. The aims of this study were to determine the magnitude of potential years of life lost due to firearms and to examine the ...
Peter Rhee +3 more
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Mortality and potential life years lost due to external causes: Colombia from 1998 to 2015 [PDF]
Universidad y Salud, 2018 Introduction: The external causes of mortality are constituted as a public health problem which affect young population, have social relevance, are avoidable and their impact is reducible in the long term. Objective: To describe the behavior of mortality
Alejandra Segura-Cardona +1 more
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Mortality and potential years of life lost attributable to alcohol consumption in Canada in 2005 [PDF]
BMC Public Health, 2012 Background Alcohol is a substantial risk factor for mortality according to the recent 2010 World Health Assembly strategy to reduce the harmful use of alcohol which outlined the need to characterize and monitor this burden.
Shield Kevin D +4 more
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Beyond death counts: how COVID-19 affected excess mortality and productive life-years lost across 28 European states, 2020–2023 [PDF]
Frontiers in Public HealthIntroductionExcess mortality attributable to COVID-19 has been extensively investigated in the public health literature. This study extends the scope of previous findings by estimating three interrelated measures, excess deaths, excess Years of Life Lost,
Paweł Niewiadomski +2 more
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Potential years of life lost due to suicide in China, 2006-2010. [PDF]
Public Health, 2015 To calculate the potential years of life lost (PYLL) due to suicide in China, and analyse the distribution of PYLL by age, sex and region.The recent Chinese national mortality data (2006-2010) published by the Chinese Ministry of Health and the census data provided by the Chinese National Population Census were used to calculate PYLL due to suicide.Age-
Sun L, Zhang J.
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Assessing Years of Potential Life Lost in Tuiserkan in 2011
پژوهان, 2014 Background and objectives: YPLL index is important in prioritizing health interventions. This index gives more weight to death of the younger people. Using this index one can calculate major causes of premature death and compare them with other societies.
Salman Khazaei +4 more
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Tropical Medicine and Infectious Disease, 2022 Pediatric tuberculosis is a serious infectious disease and a hidden global epidemic. The objective of this study was to describe the epidemiological situation of tuberculosis mortality in children under 15 years of age in Colombia in the period 2010–2018.
Laura Plata-Casas +2 more
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Revista Brasileira de Epidemiologia, 2022 : Objective: To estimate the mortality trend and to analyze the potential years of life lost (PYLL) due to leukemias and lymphomas in Brazil and Mato Grosso, from 2001 to 2019. Methods: Time-series study on deaths from leukemias and lymphomas with data
Mariana Rosa Soares +9 more
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Iatreia, 2022 Background: Identifying the patterns, distribution, and characteristics of suicide in a region is possible with epidemiological surveillance which may lay the foundations for suicide prevention. Objective: To describe the situation of suicide
Zapata-Ospina, Juan Pablo +3 more
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