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Vital Statistics (5):
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Vital Statistics
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This report presents information on the state of the U.S. health system in 2010. It includes data on the uninsured and underinsured and their access to health care, on socioeconomic inequality in health care, and on the rising costs of the U.S. health system. It also presents information on the role...
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PMID: 21842579
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Data on temporal changes in alcoholic liver disease (ALD)-related mortality in the United States are lacking. This longitudinal assessment is important, given the divergent data on trends in worldwide ALD-related mortality, concerns for underestimation of mortality attributed to ALD in previous inves...
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PMID: 20179691
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The Lancet (375)9730 2010
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Of the estimated 8.795 million deaths in children younger than 5 years worldwide in 2008, infectious diseases caused 68% (5.970 million), with the largest percentages due to pneumonia (18%, 1.575 million, uncertainty range [UR] 1.046 million-1.874 million), diarrhoea (15%, 1.336 million, 0.822 milli...
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PMID: 20466419
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Following a long period of fairly steady increase, the U.S. preterm birth rate declined for the second straight year in 2008 to 12.3 percent, from 12.8 percent in 2006. This marks the first 2-year decline in the preterm birth rate in nearly three decades. Preterm birth rates declined from 2006 to 20...
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PMID: 20604990
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A total of 1 865 445 cancer deaths were collected in 1973-1975, the standardized death rate was 99.61/100 000, and 193 839 cancer deaths were collected in 2004-2005, the standardized death rate was 123.72/100 000, with growth of 24.20%. District mortality analysis showed that the provincial standard...
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PMID: 20654141
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Our results suggest that the use of paroxetine in early pregnancy is associated with an increased risk of atrium septum defects. The results stress the importance of studying possible teratogenic effects of a drug, preferably in regard to well-specified malformations....
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PMID: 19937603
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The trends of decreasing mortality rates from ischaemic heart disease and stroke have continued into the 21(st) century, however both causes continue to be the biggest killers in England. They are projected to remain so, and consequently, to contribute significantly to the burden of disease in the p...
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PMID: 20383167
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Nigerian journal of medicine : journal of the National Association of Resident Doctors of Nigeria (19)3 2010
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BACKGROUND: Medical Scientists are beginning to understand better some of the trends in the changing disease and mortality patterns but policymakers need to know how to use this information to make decisions about the priorities for the health sector. This Paper is aimed at x-raying this shift in mo...
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PMID: 20845625
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Population Trends ()139 2010
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The 2008-based national population projections, produced by the Office for National Statistics in consultation with the devolved administrations, show the population of the UK rising from 61.4 million in 2008 to 65.6 million in 2018 and 71.6 million by 2033. In the longer-term, the projections sugge...
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PMID: 20379280
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The household registration (hukou) system in China, classifying each person as a rural or an urban resident, is a major means of controlling population mobility and determining eligibility for state-provided services and welfare. Established in the late 1950s, it was initially used to bar rural-to-u...
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PMID: 20734556
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Public Health Reports (125)4 2010
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Missouri medicine (107)2 2010
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The medical autopsy is the most reliable and thorough means after the death of a patient that a physician has to evaluate the validity of his/her clinical diagnosis on which care was delivered. There is virtually no dispute in the literature of its value in the assessment of the quality of care. Tod...
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PMID: 20446515
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Our hypothesis is that this social group carefully selected for marriage those individuals who were apparently healthier and therefore more likely to guarantee good health status and better life conditions to offspring. In evolutionary terms, the mate choice component of sexual selection suggests th...
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PMID: 19902452
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Minnesota medicine (92)11 2009
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Prompt, accurate cause-of-death information is valuable to family members, public health officials, researchers, and statisticians. This article discusses how such information is used to track health trends in Minnesota and determine public health and research priorities. It also describes how to el...
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PMID: 20070000
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NCHS data brief ()18 2009
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Childbearing among unmarried women has been the subject of intense public policy and public health concern for decades, much of it reflecting concerns about the impact on family structure and the economic security of children. Nonmarital births are at higher risk of having adverse birth outcomes suc...
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PMID: 19450389
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Southern Medical Journal (102)5 2009
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ATV deaths increased 155% from 11% during 1985-1998 to 28% during 1999-2007. Injuries to the upper and lower trunk (62%) were the most common injuries, followed by head and neck injuries (28%). Fatality rates increased substantially from 0.37 deaths per 100,000 in 1990 to 2.14 in 2007, with a twofol...
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PMID: 19373159
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We review the data and methods used to measure and estimate TB mortality in adults, assess the strengths and weaknesses of each and suggest ways to improve current mortality statistics. In principle, deaths attributable to TB can be obtained directly from national vital registration (VR) systems. Ho...
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PMID: 19275787
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This paper analyzes the demographic profile of the Boróro Indians from Mato Grosso State, Brazil, from 1993 to 1996. Data came from annual collection and registration of vital statistics conducted by the health service in three villages (Garças, Meruri, and Morada dos Boróro). The average a...
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PMID: 19219240
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Cancer is one of the major targets of disease control programs in Japan. A Joinpoint regression model was used to analyze the long-term trends of mortality related to overall cancer and the 15 most common cancers based on published data from the National Vital Statistics of Japan between 1958 and 20...
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PMID: 18844218
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Despite frequent media accounts of drownings in the United Arab Emirates, little was known about the epidemiology and prevention of such incidents. The research objective was to assess newspapers as a national source on incidence, activities, and risk factors for drowning in this high-income media-r...
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PMID: 18243050
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Epidemiology (20)1 2009
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All particle fractions including Aitken, accumulation, and coarse mode had especially adverse respiratory health effects among the elderly. Overall associations were stronger for respiratory than for cardiovascular outcomes....
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PMID: 19234403
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Medical Care (47)1 2009
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This study highlights that although the VA and SSA administrative databases have less complete ascertainment for younger decedents, combined these electronic databases provide nearly complete ascertainment for women veterans. Challenges related to large female-specific cross-linkage studies are expl...
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PMID: 19106741
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Public Health Reports (124)4 2009
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Almost all bed-sharing deaths occurred in association with other risk factors despite the finding that most women reporting frequent bed sharing had no risk factors; this suggests that bed sharing alone does not increase the risk of infant death....
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PMID: 19618789
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This study highlights the importance of political stability and support in achieving public health improvements and the pervasive influence of socio-demographic factors on several key health indicators in Baltic countries. It points to the need to introduce evidence-based public health interventions...
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PMID: 18948367
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A total of 192,083 household screening interviews were completed from April 2005 to February 2007. This resulted in 40,840 completed special-needs interviews and 6,113 completed interviews for children in the comparison (referent) sample. The weighted overall response rates were 56.1% for special-ne...
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PMID: 19284158
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Patterns of mortality have not changed substantially since 1990. Although positive associations with several cancers were observed, and are consistent with the published literature, interpretation is limited due to the small numbers of events for specific exposures....
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PMID: 19001957
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The percentages of respondents who were assigned countywide air pollution values ranges from a low of 43 percent in the case of NO2 data to a high of 68 percent in the case of PM10 data. Among the pollutants considered, PM10 data provides the best coverage. Of all the metrics created, the highest co...
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PMID: 19280992
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Overall mortality was highly concentrated in the middle part of the upper north, as well as mortality of the working age. Clustering of cause-specific SMR in a single region was found for liver cancer (in the upper northeast region) and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (in the upper north regio...
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PMID: 18843878
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National vital statistics reports : from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Center for Health Statistics, National Vital Statistics System (57)4 2008
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OBJECTIVES: This report describes the methodology used in the preparation of the 1999-2001 decennial life tables for the United States. METHODS: Data used to prepare these life tables include population data by age on the census date April 1, 2000; deaths occurring in the 3-year period 1999-2001 cla...
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PMID: 18783078
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The great French scientist Emile Roux is widely believed to have been a confirmed bachelor, who on occasion expressed his antipathy towards marriage. However, UK records show that in August 1878 he married Rose Anna Shedlock in London. Her subsequent fate is unknown. While Roux became famous, his ma...
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PMID: 18653841
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The study of marriage seasonality of populations with different socioeconomic backgrounds may contribute to the better understanding their reproductive behaviours. This study analyses the monthly distribution of marriages in the 19th century in four agricultural villages and four pastoral villages o...
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PMID: 18198006
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A method for decomposing partner availability into its demographic components (preferences, previous birth trends, migration and mortality, and structure by marital status) is presented and applied to marriage market estimates for selected census years 1911-91 in England and Wales. Preferences are a...
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PMID: 18241522
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We computed the Spearman rank correlations between number of prescriptions dispensed and serious events (asthma-related hospitalization rate, number of hospitalizations, asthma-related mortality rate, and number of asthma deaths).
During more than 14 years, while number of prescriptions dispensed of...
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PMID: 18592819
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Demography (45)2 2008
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Recent research has shown that after long-term declining trends are excluded, mortality rates in industrial countries tend to rise in economic expansions and fall in economic recessions. In the present work, co-movements between economic fluctuations and mortality changes in postwar Japan are invest...
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PMID: 18613484
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Suicide deaths are highest among males, unpartnered individuals, and individuals with psychiatric disorders....
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PMID: 18478828
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The Lancet (371)9619 2008
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We explore in depth topics with major scientific challenges and institutional and cultural barriers that are slowing the development of the field. Cutting across the various topical areas and disciplinary approaches to these problems are some common scientific issues, including limited comparability...
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PMID: 18395581
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Pediatrics (121)4 2008
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US births increased 3% between 2005 and 2006 to 4,265,996, the largest number since 1961. The crude birth rate rose 1%, to 14.2 per 1000 population, and the general fertility rate increased 3%, to 68.5 per 1000 women 15 to 44 years. Births and birth rates increased among all race and Hispanic-origin...
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PMID: 18381544
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Increased all-cause, liver, and cardiac mortality among hepatitis C virus-seropositive blood donors.
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Hospital-based studies suggest that hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection causes frequent cirrhosis, hepatocellular carcinoma, and mortality, but epidemiologic studies have shown less morbidity and mortality. The authors performed a retrospective cohort study of 10,259 recombinant immunoblot assay-confi...
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PMID: 18203734
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Health reports / Statistics Canada, Canadian Centre for Health Information = Rapports sur la sante / Statistique Canada, Centre canadien d'information sur la sante (19)1 2008
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In 1991, life expectancy at birth in the Inuit-inhabited areas was about 68 years, which was 10 years lower than for Canada overall. From 1991 to 2001, life expectancy in the Inuit-inhabited areas did not increase, although it rose by about two years for Canada as a whole. As a result, the gap widen...
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PMID: 18457208
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Public Health (122)2 2008
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Certain health promotion and environmental health actions should be undertaken urgently by the Palestinian health care services to cope with environmental and sanitary conditions, and to further improve health status regarding communicable and non-communicable diseases in Palestinians. Health resear...
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PMID: 17663010
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Demography (45)1 2008
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I also document qualitative differences in nonmarital fertility by race/ethnicity, with the percentage of nonmarital births following a divorce or marital separation for white women approximately twice that for black or Hispanic women. Finally, I introduce a new measure, the cohort nonmarital fertil...
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PMID: 18390299
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The Lancet (371)9607 2008
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This paper investigates the quality of information in the National Health Service (NHS) Numbers for Babies (NN4B) dataset and provides statistics on gestational age at birth in relation to live/stillbirth status, multiple birth status, age of mother, babies' sex, and birthweight. Gestational age inf...
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PMID: 18351024
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Circulation Journal (72)1 2008
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The mortality rate among males with cardiac sequelae because of KD was significantly higher in this cohort than in the general population. On the other hand, those for females with the sequelae and for both males and females without sequelae were not elevated....
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PMID: 18159114
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Population Trends ()131 2008
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The 2006-based national population projections, carried out by the Office for National Statistics in consultation with the devolved administrations, show the population of the UK rising from 60.6 million in 2006, passing 65 million in 2016 and 70 million in 2028, to reach 71.1 million by 2031. In th...
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PMID: 18453286
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Problemy sotsial'noi gigieny, zdravookhraneniia i istorii meditsiny / NII sotsial'noi gigieny, ekonomiki i upravleniia zdravookhraneniem im. N.A. Semashko RAMN ; AO "Assotsiatsiia 'Meditsinskaia literatura'." ()3 2008
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Little information is available on the 20th century mortality rates of rural black South African groups, such as the Venda. The purpose of this study was to apply abridged life tables in order to estimate life expectancy from both skeletal remains and death registry information of modern South Afric...
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PMID: 18555996
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The authors, Professors of different Universities, of this book are introduced in the Epidemiology principles and concepts and to fcilitate comprehension and retention new material with relevant to evidence based medicine and the affectivity relationship in the care of the patients. The aims provide...
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PMID: 18777842
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Modern Healthcare (Suppl) 2007
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While life expectancy has increased by about 2.2 years per decade the observed variations in the age- and disease-specific contributions over time have implications for future health care planning and prevention strategies....
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PMID: 17403787
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Human Reproduction (22)12 2007
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OBJECTIVES: This report presents health statistics from the 2006 National Health Interview Survey for the civilian noninstitutionalized adult population, classified by sex, age, race and ethnicity, education, family income, poverty status, health insurance coverage, marital status, and place and reg...
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PMID: 18361164
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National vital statistics reports : from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Center for Health Statistics, National Vital Statistics System (56)5 2007
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In 2004, the 10 leading causes of death were (in rank order) Diseases of heart; Malignant neoplasms; Cerebrovascular diseases; Chronic lower respiratory diseases; Accidents (unintentional injuries); Diabetes mellitus; Alzheimer's disease; Influenza and pneumonia; Nephritis, nephrotic syndrome and ne...
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PMID: 18092547
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The Lancet (370)9601 2007
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The Lancet (370)9601 2007
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We propose an approach that couples the application of methods to generate better vital statistics in the short term with capacity-building for comprehensive civil registration systems in the long run....
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PMID: 18029003
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