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Variations in amenable mortality--trends in 16 high-income nations.

, 2011
BACKGROUND: There has been growing interest in the comparison of health system performance within and between countries, using a range of different indicators. This study examines trends in amenable mortality, as one measure of health system performance,
McKee, Martin, Nolte, Ellen
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Childhood intelligence predicts premature mortality : Results from a 40-year population-based longitudinal study [PDF]

, 2017
Acknowledgements This study was supported by a grant from the Luxembourg Fonds National de la Recherche (VIVRE FNR/06/09/18) and a PhD scholarship awarded to the first author by the Fonds National de la Recherche.Peer ...
Brunner, Martin, Keller, Ulrich, Martin, Romain, Stadler, Gertraud, Wrulich, Marius   +4 more
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The analysis of premature mortality in selected Central and East European countries

Acta Universitatis Carolinae Geographica
Despite mortality improvements across Europe, premature mortality notably persists in Central and East European countries. This study is aimed to assess premature mortality variations across Central and East European countries from 1970 to 2019 ...
Irina Pahomii
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Impact of socioeconomic deprivation on rate and cause of death in severe mental illness [PDF]

, 2014
Background: Socioeconomic status has important associations with disease-specific mortality in the general population. Although individuals with Severe Mental Illnesses (SMI) experience significant premature mortality, the relationship between ...
AC Phillips, AJ Kposowa, AP Weiss, B Schneider, C Crump, C-K Chang, CW Colton, D Lawrence, D Osborn, DA Regier, Daniel J Martin, Daniel J Smith, DJ Gunnell, DJ Smith, DJ Smith, DN Baxter, DP Osborn, E Scafato, E Tran, E Van Doorslaer, G McCartney, Gary McLean, GK Singh, I Stirbu, J Park, John Park, Julie Langan Martin, K Barnett, K Hawton, K Wahlbeck, M DE Hert, Moira Connolly, NE Morden, P Congdon, PG Surtees, R Taylor, RA Payne, S Aro, S Oksbjerg Dalton, S Strickland, SD Rosenberg, SM Frayne, Stewart W Mercer, TJ Lambert, TM Laursen, TM Laursen, U Hoang, VS Catts   +47 more
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Premature Mortality from Cardiovascular Disease in the Americas - Will the Goal of a Decline of "25% by 2025" be Met? [PDF]

PLoS ONE, 2015
Cardiovascular diseases (CVD) are the underlying cause 1.6 million deaths per year in the Americas, accounting for 30% of total mortality and 38% of by non-communicable deaths diseases (NCDs). A 25% reduction in premature mortality due four main NCDs was
Pedro Ordunez, Elisa Prieto-Lara, Vilma Pinheiro Gawryszewski, Anselm J M Hennis, Richard S Cooper   +4 more
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Alcohol-related mortality in deprived UK cities: worrying trends in young women challenge recent national downward trends [PDF]

, 2013
Background: Glasgow, the largest city in Scotland, has high levels of deprivation and a poor-health profile compared with other parts of Europe, which cannot be fully explained by the high levels of deprivation.
Shipton, Deborah, Walsh, David, Whyte, Bruce   +2 more
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Spatial epidemiology of premature mortality in Ontario, Canada

International Journal of Population Data Science, 2018
Introduction Geographic disparities in health indicators, such as premature mortality, may reveal area-level weaknesses in health system performance. Monitoring geographic trends can therefore have powerful implications for system evaluation and planning.
Emmalin Buajitti, Tristan Watson, Todd Norwood, Laura Rosella   +3 more
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Ectopy on a single 12‐lead ECG, incident cardiac myopathy, and death in the community [PDF]

, 2017
BackgroundAtrial fibrillation and heart failure are 2 of the most common diseases, yet ready means to identify individuals at risk are lacking. The 12-lead ECG is one of the most accessible tests in medicine.
Alonso, Alvaro, Chen, Lin Y, Dewland, Thomas A, Dukes, Jonathan W, Gottdiener, John S, Heckbert, Susan R, Marcus, Gregory M, Nguyen, Kaylin T, Psaty, Bruce M, Soliman, Elsayed Z, Stein, Phyllis K, Vittinghoff, Eric   +11 more
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Aboriginal premature mortality within South Australia 1999-2006: a cross-sectional analysis of small area results

BMC Public Health, 2011
Background This paper initially describes premature mortality by Aboriginality in South Australia during 1999 to 2006. It then examines how these outcomes vary across area level socio-economic disadvantage and geographic remoteness.
McDermott Robyn, Woollacott Tony, Jury Heather, Banham David, Baum Fran   +4 more
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Premature Mortality Due to PM2.5 Over India: Effect of Atmospheric Transport and Anthropogenic Emissions

GeoHealth, 2019
The annual premature mortality in India attributed to exposure to ambient particulate matter (PM2.5) exceeds 1 million (Cohen et al., 2017, https://doi.org/10.1016/S0140‐6736(17)30505‐6).
Liji M. David, A. R. Ravishankara, John K. Kodros, Jeffrey R. Pierce, Chandra Venkataraman, Pankaj Sadavarte   +5 more
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