BACKGROUND Evidence on mortality in severe mental illness (SMI) comes primarily from clinical samples in high-income countries. AIMS To describe mortality in people with SMI among a population cohort from a low-income country. METHOD We followed-up 919 adults (from 68 378 screened) with SMI over 10 years. Standardised mortality ratios (SMR) and years of life lost (YLL) as a result of premat...

Background: Analysis of the causes premature mortality is an essential function public health surveillance. A variety methods have been used to accurately assess and report level trends mortality; however, many significant limitations, particularly in capturing actual early deaths. Years life lost (YLL) has recognized as a robust comprehensive measure mortality. 1 Systemic lupus erythematosus (...

N most of the existing theory of selection the genotypes present in a population I are assumed to have constant selective advantages or disadvantages in relation to each other. But a different case was considered by HALDANE (1 961 ) . He assumed that generations do not overlap and that in each generation a proportion C of the males and a proportion c of the females are removed from the populati...

A carga da hanseníase continua a crescer no Brasil, principalmente em áreas endêmicas, ocasionando um grande número de pacientes com incapacidades físicas. Dessa forma, objetivamos mensurar e caracterizar relacionada à analisar seus padrões temporais Alagoas, entre 2001 2019. Para isso nós mensuramos os anos vida perdidos (YLL), vividos incapacidade (YLD) ajustados por (DALY) para Alagoas As mé...

BACKGROUND Health impact assessments (HIA) use information on exposure, baseline mortality/morbidity and exposure-response functions from epidemiological studies in order to quantify the health impacts of existing situations and/or alternative scenarios. The aim of this study was to improve HIA methods for air pollution studies in situations where exposures can be estimated using GIS with high ...