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Showing 1 to 16 of 16 for “"excess mortality"”.
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Excess mortality in the Glasgow conurbation: exploring the existence of a Glasgow effect
… There exists a ‘Scottish effect’, a residue of excess mortality that remains for Scotland relative to England and Wales after standardising for age, sex and local area deprivation status. This residue is largest for the most deprived segments of the Scottish population. Most Scottish areas that …
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Medical Underservice and Cancer Mortality Among Farmers in Illinois
… impact by comparing standardized cancer mortality ratios (SMRs) among rural populations in a metropolitan county in Illinois with health care readily available within its boundaries to rural populations in two nonmetropolitan, medically underserved counties in the state. Four rural …
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Childhood epidemics and the demographic landscape of the Aland Archipelago
… that can last for weeks or even months. Higher mortality during measles epidemics has typically been associated with completely susceptible populations; however, in Aland, Finland--a population that experienced regular epidemics of both childhood diseases--mortality from all causes during the …
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Characterising recent mortality trends in people with bipolar disorder and schizophrenia in England using linked hospital and mortality data
Background and objectives Mortality is higher in people with severe mental illness than others. An important policy goal is to reduce this ’mortality gap’. The objectives of this thesis were to investigate whether the gap has reduced in recent years in people with bipolar disorder or schizophrenia, …
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Health of Indiana Firefighters
… aero-digestive and genitourinary cancers are in excess among firefighters compared to the general population. Studies examining excess cardiovascular mortality are inconsistent. Limited data exist on chronic disease mortality, risk factor profiles, and barriers to a healthy lifestyle among …
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Death among a cohort of prisoners in New South Wales Australia — a data linkage study
This thesis examines mortality rates among adults who experienced full-time imprisonment in New South Wales between January 1988 and December 2002, by record linkage to the Australian National Death Index. The cohort included 76383 men and 8820 women. Over a mean follow-up of 7.7 years, 5137 deaths …
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Modelling longitudinal data on respiratory infections to inform health policy
… the leading cause of respiratory morbidity and mortality globally, especially in young children and in the elderly. To improve the understanding of factors triggering disease progression, we firstly analyse individual-level information about pneumococcal carriage and lower respiratory tract …
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Hip fracture - Mortality and residual lifetime risk of fractures
… associated with multi-cause morbidity and high mortality. Improved knowledge of long-term outcome is essential in order to improve future care and prevention of both fracture and its complications. In this thesis, all hip fracture patients during 1984-1985 in Malmö, Sweden (766 women, 263 men) …
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Investigating the Mental-Physical Health Interface Using National Register-based Data
… conditions, I have demonstrated higher risks of mortality and larger losses of life-years in both people with substance use disorders and severe mental illnesses following the onset of a wide range of physical health conditions compared with counterparts who only had the respective physical …
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Development of a Risk Prediction Tool for Emergency Laparotomy
… The same cohort was reviewed for long-term mortality with an in-depth analysis of causes of death. A model for ethics application on acutely unwell delirious patients was developed to allow for the inclusion of a representative cohort. A five-hospital multicentre study using the obtained …
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Airflow in Interior Spaces: Implications on Comfort and Health
… are necessary to reduce productivity losses and excess mortality. This work presents the results of long-term temperature monitoring within four occupied homes, builds a model for understanding the influence of material choice, and evaluates that model on the basis of a reduction in peak indoor …
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Evaluating the impact of the urban heat island on public health: Spatial and social determinants of heat-related mortality in New York City
Increased rates of mortality and morbidity due to summertime heat are a significant problem in New York City (NYC) and for many cities around the world, and are expected to increase with a warming climate. An ecologic design was used to evaluate the association between neighborhood scale …
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Evaluating the Effects of Pharmaceutical Interventions, Social Policies, and Exogeneous Shocks on People's Health and Behavior
… time series modeling to estimate pandemic-period excess mortality associated with overdoses in the US, by substance and geography. We find ∼25,650 excess deaths nationally (March 2020-August 2021), disproportionately affecting Southern and Western regions of the country and attributable mainly to …
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Surface Ozone and Population Health
… interval (CI) ranging 1.009–1.019 for all-cause mortality; 1.025 (95% CI: 1.010–1.040) for respiratory mortality; and 1.019 (95% CI: 1.004–1.035) for cardiovascular mortality. Adjustment for exposure metrics lays a more solid foundation for multi-study meta-analysis. To fill in the research gap, …
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The management of antipsychotic-induced weight gain
… adversely affected. Approximately 40-50% of this excess mortality has been estimated as attributable to death secondary to premature cardiovascular disease (CVD). High rates of obesity are a recognised significant contributor to the burden of CVD among SMI cohorts. Whilst antipsychotic medications …