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WEBDisability-free life expectancy (DFLE) has been used to gain a better understanding of the population’s quality of life. Khandaker Tanveer Ahmed, Aziza Afrin, …

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Population health metrics: crucial inputs to the …

WEBMeasurement of population health, its causes, and its distribution is fundamental to the development of evidence for health policies [], and for the evaluation …

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Population Health Metrics : the next phase

WEBPopulation Health Metrics covers a broad range of topics encompassing health state measurement and valuation, summary measures of population health, …

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The County Health Rankings: rationale and methods

WEBThe following includes a sample of 2014 Rankings findings to highlight several key points. Figure 2 shows the top five and bottom five counties within each …

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The contributions of public health policies and healthcare …

WEBLife expectancy (LE) has increased worldwide and steadily in developed countries, such as the UK [].This improvement draws special attention to their high …

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Prevalence of unmet health care need in older adults in …

WEBThe 1978 Alma Ata Declaration [] identified health as a human right and ensuring access to health care as a primary responsibility of governments.These …

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Assessment of the health of Americans: the average …

WEBThe assessment of population health has traditionally relied on the population's average health measured by mortality related indicators. Researchers have …

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Summarizing health-related quality of life (HRQOL): …

WEBHealth-related quality of life (HRQOL) is a multi-dimensional concept commonly used to examine the impact of health status on quality of life. HRQOL is often …

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Comparing population health in the United States and Canada

WEBHealth in the US and Canada are compared in three different ways. First, we compare mean HRQL scores by age. It is well-known that health is affected by more …

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Health, well-being, and measuring the burden of disease

WEBThis essay asks whether the global burden of diseases, injuries, and risk factors (GBD) should be measured in terms of their consequences for health, as …

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An objective metric of individual health and aging for population

WEBValidation of our standard DM versions was performed with the Women’s Health and Aging Study (WHAS). WHAS is a population-based prospective study of …

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Choosing an epidemiological model structure for the economic …

WEBAuthors have previously developed taxonomies to help modelers to decide on the most appropriate health economic model structure, however, these are primarily …

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Monitoring the progress of health-related sustainable …

WEBMonitoring inequalities has emerged as a priority for health post-2015. As the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) have focused mainly on fighting poverty, promoting development, and reducing inequalities between countries, the post-2015 sustainable development goals (SDG) stress “leaving no one behind”—with goal 10 …

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Comparative quantification of health risks: Conceptual framework …

WEBReliable and comparable analysis of risks to health is key for preventing disease and injury. Causal attribution of morbidity and mortality to risk factors has …

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The Population Health Model (POHEM): an overview of rationale, …

WEBThe POpulation HEalth Model (POHEM) is a health microsimulation model that was developed at Statistics Canada in the early 1990s. POHEM draws together rich …

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Comparing life expectancy and health-adjusted life expectancy by …

WEBWhile many studies have examined differences between body mass index (BMI) categories in terms of mortality risk and health-related quality of life (HRQL), little …

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Family structure and multiple domains of child well-being in the …

WEBBarriers to health care and health care utilization. Table 2 presents results for the association between family structure and health care outcomes. Panel A shows …

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Estimating distributions of health state severity for the global …

WEBBackground Many major causes of disability in the Global Burden of Disease (GBD) study present with a range of severity, and for most causes finding population …

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Assessing community variation and randomness in public health

WEBBackground Evidence-based health indicators are vital to needs-based programming and epidemiological planning. Agencies frequently make programming …

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Comparing health gains, costs and cost-effectiveness of 100s of

WEBThis study compares the health gains, costs, and cost-effectiveness of hundreds of Australian and New Zealand (NZ) health interventions conducted with …

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