Mortality from avoidable circulatory system diseases causes one of the major losses in life expectancy, especially males and population working ages. The main contributors are deaths caused by ischaemic heart diseases, cerebrovascular hypertensive diseases. This article analyses trends mortality estimates possible increases expectancy due to elimination these death. In this regard, author uses ...

BACKGROUND Immigrants have been shown to possess a health advantage, yet are also more likely to reside in arduous economic conditions. Little is known about if and how the socioeconomic gradient for all-cause, premature and avoidable mortality differs according to immigration status. METHODS Using several linked population-based vital and demographic databases from Ontario, we examined a coh...

OBJECTIVE We propose a new method to measure health inequalities caused by conditions amenable to policy intervention and use this to identify health differences between sexes and age groups. METHODS The lowest observed mortality rates are used as a proxy of unavoidable mortality risks to develop a new measure of health outcome - realization of potential life years (RePLY). The RePLY distribu...

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Conclusions Optimal cooperation between our tertiary facilities and non-teaching hospitals and clinics as well as the prehospital transport systems allows significant limitations in avoidable obstetric maternal morbidity and mortality. Cerebral hemorrhage and amniotic fluid embolism carry the heaviest toll in non-avoidable deaths. Authors’ details Hôpitaux Universitaires de Strasbourg, Anesthés...

OBJECTIVES: To examine the frequency and reasons for potentially avoidable hospitalizations of nursing home (NH) residents. DESIGN: Medical records were reviewed as a component of a project designed to develop and pilot test clinical practice tools for reducing potentially avoidable hospitalization. SETTING: NHs in Georgia. PARTICIPANTS: In 10 NHs with high and 10 with low hospitalization rates...

OBJECTIVE To determine whether the health performance of Brazil, the Russian Federation, India, China and South Africa--the countries known as BRICS--has kept in step with their economic development. METHODS Reductions in age- and sex-specific mortality seen in each BRICS country between 1990 and 2011 were measured. These results were compared with those of the best-performing countries in th...