The decline in Avoidable Mortality (AM) and increase in life expectancy in Shanghai is impressive. Gusmano and colleagues suggested that Shanghai's improved health system has contributed significantly to this decline in AM. However, when compared to other global cities, Shanghai's life expectancy at birth is improving as London and New York City, but has yet to surpass that of Hong Kong, Tokyo,...

A series of outcome indicators was proposed for assessing the curative aspects of health care using several diseases for which evidence suggested that death was largely avoidable provided that appropriate medical treatment could be given in time. International data were examined for those causes for which data were readily available. Time trends in mortality were compared for each of these cond...

OBJECTIVE To describe the incidence of avoidable mortality for causes amenable to medical care among occupation groups in Canada. METHOD A cohort study over an 11-year period among a representative 15% sample of the non-institutionalized population of Canada aged 30-69 at cohort inception. Age-standardized mortality rates for causes amenable to medical care and all other causes of death were ...

The Canadian Medical Association's More Doctors, More Care campaign seeks to align physician supply targets with policy decisions elsewhere in the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). Using OECD data for 19 countries to assess the relationship between physician supply and healthcare outcomes, we have determined that there is no association between avoidable mortality a...

Worldwide, more than 30 million people spend time in prison every year.1 The USA incarcerates 25% of these people and one in 31 Americans is currently under correctional control, either in jail, prison, or on probation or parole.2 Most prisoners will eventually be released, and the 2 weeks after release have been shown to be associated with a substantial increase in mortality, especially from o...

OBJECTIVE Estimate the Years of Life Lost (YLL) for overall and avoidable causes of death (CoD) in Colombia for the period 1998-2011. METHODS From the reported deaths to the Colombian mortality database during 1998-2011, we classified deaths from avoidable causes. With the reference life table of the Global Burden of Disease (GBD) 2010 study, we estimated the overall YLL and YLL due to avoida...

OBJECTIVE Determining the relationship between social exclusion and health inequity at state and municipal level in Mexico during recent years. METHODS Adjusted mortality rates were calculated for 2005 (related to transmissible illnesses in childhood, pregnancy, childbirth and being produced by causes considered potentially avoidable); rates were calculated by states, for states grouped in qu...

* 511(12 Reversal Mechanism of Multidrug Resistance by Verapamil: Di rect Binding of Verapamil to P-Glycoprotein on Specific:Sites and Transport of Verapamil Outward across the Plasma Membrane of K562/ADM Cells. Keisuke Yusa and Takashi Tsuruo. 5007 Lysis of Antigenically Unrelated Tumor Cells Mediated by Lyt 2* Splenic T-Cells from Melphalan-cured MOPC-315 Tumor Bear ers. Edward Barker,James A...

AIM To describe the avoidable factors associated with child deaths identified by a confidential enquiry. METHOD In the Centre for Maternal and Child Enquiries confidential enquiry, a sample (13%) of cases was subjected to case note review by multidisciplinary panels attempting to identify avoidable factors associated with the deaths. Cases were selected blindly but in equal numbers from prede...