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Potential gains in life expectancy or years of potential life lost: impact of competing risks of death [PDF]

International Journal of Epidemiology, 1999
Measuring the impact of competing risks of death on society is important for setting public health policy and allocating resources. However, various indicators may result in inconsistent conclusions. The potential gains in life expectancy (PGLE) by elimination of deaths from HIV/AIDS, diseases of the heart and malignant neoplasms were compared to the ...
D, Lai, R J, Hardy
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Beyond death counts: how COVID-19 affected excess mortality and productive life-years lost across 28 European states, 2020–2023

Frontiers in Public Health
IntroductionExcess 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, Jakub Wojtasik, Błażej Łyszczarz   +2 more
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Mortality and potential years of life lost attributable to alcohol consumption in Canada in 2005

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, Taylor Benjamin, Kehoe Tara, Patra Jayadeep, Rehm Jürgen   +4 more
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The influence of education on health: an empirical assessment of OECD countries for the period 1995–2015

Archives of Public Health, 2020
Background A clear understanding of the macro-level contexts in which education impacts health is integral to improving national health administration and policy.
Viju Raghupathi, Wullianallur Raghupathi
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Assessment of premature mortality for noncommunicable diseases [PDF]

Revista Brasileira de Enfermagem, 2020
Objectives: to analyze premature mortality and Potential Years of Life Lost by noncommunicable diseases in a city in the countryside of São Paulo from 2010 to 2014. Methods: ecological study of temporal tendency, using secondary source.
Plinio Tadeu Istilli, Carla Regina de Souza Teixeira, Maria Lúcia Zanetti, Rafael Aparecido Dias Lima, Marta Cristiane Alves Pereira, Waleska Zafred Ricci   +5 more
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Years of potential life lost due to motorcycle accidents

International Archives of Medicine, 2017
Introduction: Traffic accidents represent a serious public health problem, because they kill approximately 1.24 million persons annually, and leave another 20 to 50 million with non-fatal lesions and traumatisms worldwide. In Brazil, in the year 2011, motorcyclists alone were responsible for one third of these deaths.
Tatiane Almeida de Menezes, Arnaldo De França Caldas Júnior, Rodrigo Gomes de Arruda, Joebson Maurílio Alves dos Santos, Saulo Bezerra Xavier, Roseane Da Silva Lemos, Rosana Alves de Melo, Flávia Emília Cavalcante Valença Fernandes   +7 more
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Death Rate as a Demo-economic Factor of the Country's Labour Potential Reduction [PDF]

, 2016
The article deals with the impact of mortality rate on the reduction of labour potential. The authors determine the index of years of potential life lost, analyze the primary causes of deaths as well as provide some prognostic estimates concerning the ...
Kobelia, Z. (Zoryana), Ksyondz, S. (Sergey), Vodianka, L. (Liubov)   +2 more
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Preferences of Pediatric Patients and Their Caregivers for Chemotherapy‐Induced Nausea and Vomiting Control Endpoints: A Mixed Methods Study

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Purpose Although not always achieved, complete chemotherapy‐induced nausea and vomiting (CINV) control is the conventional goal of CINV prophylaxis. In this two‐center, mixed‐methods study, we sought to understand the preferences of adolescent patients and family caregivers for CINV control endpoints.
Haley Newman, Tadi Hondonga, Alison Berry, Caitlin Elgarten, Jason Freedman, Katelyn Oranges, Sara McDonough, Caroline Diorio, L. Lee Dupuis   +8 more
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Outcomes of Live Virus Vaccination in Patients With Vascular Anomalies Being Treated With Sirolimus

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background Live vaccination in patients with vascular anomalies (VA) receiving sirolimus remains controversial due to immunosuppressive effects and theoretical risks. Procedure This single‐center retrospective study included patients with VA less than 4 years old at the start of sirolimus therapy who were incompletely vaccinated.
Svatava Merkle, Kiersten Ricci, Kelly Blache, Rebecca A. Marsh, Adrienne M. Hammill, Elissa Engel   +5 more
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Prevalence and Trajectory of Household Material Hardship Among Children With Advanced Cancer

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background/Objectives Families of children with advanced cancer living in poverty experience inferior outcomes including poor parent mental health and worse child quality of life. Household material hardship (HMH: food, housing, transportation, and/or utility insecurity) is a modifiable poverty exposure—and potential intervention target—that ...
Sarah Wright, Morgan A. Paul, Selena Murcia Mendez, Emily Jones, Lucille Lokko, Chelsea Heneghan, Nicholas Purol, Morgan Arnold, Rahela Aziz‐Bose, Colleen A. Kelly, Sandi L. Pruitt, Joanne Wolfe, Kira Bona, Puja J. Umaretiya   +13 more
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