We used population data from the 10% sample of each relevant census. This sample is coded to the registrar general’s social classification. Only men aged 20-64 years were included because many men outside this age range could not be allocated to a social class. Deaths by age and social class for 1970-2, 1979-80 and 1982-3, and 1991-3 (used in decennial supplements to the census 1, 6, 15) come f...

The magnitude of the overall prevalence and racial disparity in induced abortion suggests that it is a major influence on the demographic and socioeconomic composition of the population of the United States (US). However, the years of potential lives averted by induced abortion have not been systematically studied. We applied race-specific intra-uterine death estimates to the induced abortions ...

OBJECTIVE Deaths by external causes represent one of the most important challenges for public health and are the second cause of death in Brazil. The aim of this study was to analyze differentials in mortality by external causes according to race/skin color. METHODS A descriptive study was carried out in Salvador, Northeastern Brazil, using 9,626 cases of deaths by external causes between 199...

PROBLEM/CONDITION Mortality and years of potential life lost attributable to cigarette smoking. REPORTING PERIOD COVERED 1990. DESCRIPTION OF SYSTEM Mortality and years of potential life lost were estimated for each state by using the Smoking-Attributable Mortality, Morbidity, and Economic Costs (SAMMEC) software. These estimates were based on attributable risk formulas for smoking-related ...

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. Accordingly, using new methodology we estimated 1) the number of deaths caused and prevented by alcohol consumption, and 2) the potential years of life lost (PYLLs) attribut...

OBJECTIVES To provide a more accurate estimate of early smoking-attributable mortality and potential years of life lost using data from a representative study of 103 study areas in China. METHODS Two datasets were employed as follows. Firstly, retrospective national mortality survey data, which included a population of 67 million in 103 study areas, and about 1 million adults who died in 1986...

OBJECTIVE To estimate the potential years of life lost by road traffic injuries three years after the beginning of the Decade of Action for Traffic Safety. METHODS We analyzed the data of the Sistema de Informações sobre Mortalidade (SIM - Mortality Information System) related to road traffic injuries, in 2013. We estimated the crude and standardized mortality rates for Brazil and geographic ...

OBJECTIVE To estimate costs of hospitalization and years of potential life lost associated with leptospirosis. METHODS Databases of the Brazilian Ministry of Health's information system were used to carry out probabilistic linkage of cases and hospitalizations leading to death by leptospirosis in 2007. Within the Information System for Notifiable Diseases, confirmed cases were subdivided into...

introduction: health care providers and health policy managers need updated and valid information regarding causes of death (cod) for development the health care facilities, directing primary prevention, assigning funds, and promoting public health. the major causes of death and its burden have not been yet appropriately identified in iran. although several studies had been carried out in this ...