This paper is freely available online under the BMJ Journals unlocked scheme, see http:// jech.bmj.com/info/unlocked.dtl ABSTRACT Objective: To evaluate the impact of avoidable mortality on the changes in life expectancy at birth in Spain. Methods: Standard life table techniques and the Arriaga method were used to calculate and to decompose life expectancy (LE) changes by age, effects and group...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the impact of avoidable mortality on the changes in life expectancy at birth in Spain. METHODS Standard life table techniques and the Arriaga method were used to calculate and to decompose life expectancy (LE) changes by age, effects and groups of causes of avoidable mortality among three periods (1987-91, 1992-6 and 1997-2001). A list of causes of avoidable mortality re...

BACKGROUND Avoidable mortality is a measure of deaths that potentially could have been averted through effective prevention practices, public health policies, and/or provision of timely and adequate health care. This longitudinal analysis compares avoidable mortality among First Nations and non-Aboriginal adults. DATA AND METHODS Data are from the 1991-to-2006 Canadian Census Mortality and Ca...

STUDY OBJECTIVE The objective of this study was to evaluate the magnitude and contributory factors of socioeconomic differentials in mortality in a cohort of Korean male civil servants. DESIGN A prospective observational study of male civil servants followed up for five years after baseline measurement. SETTING All civil service offices in Korea. PARTICIPANTS AND MEASUREMENTS The study wa...

Twenty per cent of Accident and Emergency department attendance by the elderly in a regional hospital in Hong Kong were deemed 'avoidable' by the attending doctors. The 'avoidable' attendants were younger and physically more independent than the appropriate attendants, and more of them were illiterate. Half of them attended the Accident and Emergency department for somatic complaints. Strategie...

We characterize the formulas that are avoided by every $\alpha$-free word for some $\alpha>1$. show avoidable whose fragments of form $XY$ or $XYX$ $4$-avoidable. The largest avoidability index an palindrome pattern is known to be at least $4$ and most $16$. make progress toward conjecture

Background: The health insurance and family physician reform in Iran were implemented in 2005. This study was conducted to assess the effect of these reforms on avoidable hospitalizations among the rural population of Eslam-shahr County, Iran.    Methods: We conducted a before-after study in Eslam-shahr County’s single existing hospital. This county is a part of the Tehran Prov...

conclusions relative high number of avoidable deaths indicates that performance of health system was not desirable in kerman during the studied years. examining trend of avoidable deaths showed that these mortalities are increasing although it is not significant nowadays. however, if this trend continues, it will be very alarming for health care authorities in this region. results two thousand ...