BACKGROUND Women's groups and health education by peer counsellors can improve the health of mothers and children. We assessed their effects on mortality and breastfeeding rates in rural Malawi. METHODS We did a 2×2 factorial, cluster-randomised trial in 185,888 people in Mchinji district. 48 equal-sized clusters were randomly allocated to four groups with a computer-generated number sequence...

Objective To estimate age-specific and sex-specific all-cause mortality among adults with and without type 2 diabetes (T2D) in Germany. Research design and methods The German National Health Interview and Examination Survey 1998 (GNHIES98) included a mortality follow-up (median follow-up time 12.0 years) of its nationwide sample representative of the population aged 18-79 years. After exclusi...

BACKGROUND The objective of this study was to estimate the burden of disease and injury in Iran for the year 2003, using Disability-Adjusted Life Years (DALYs) at the national level and for six selected provinces. METHODS Methods developed by the World Health Organization for National Burden of Disease (NBD) studies were applied to estimate disease and injury incidence for the calculation of ...

The publication of the paper from Lori Uscher-Pines is timely. She points to a knowledge gap in the humanitarian field: the indirect or delayed health cost of natural disasters. This is a serious shortcoming, considering as she correctly noted that humanitarian response is far more likely to reduce the delayed mortality than affect the number of deaths directly and immediately attributable to t...

Air pollution is the leading cause of global burden disease from environment, entailing substantial economic consequences. International shipping a significant source NOx, SO2, CO and PM, which can known negative health impacts. Thus, this study aimed to estimate impacts associated external costs ship-related air in Iberian Peninsula for 2015. Moreover, impact CAP2020 regulations on 2015 emissi...

Abstract COVID-19 has had a powerful impact on society with high rates of morbidity and mortality. The use an epidemiological indicator that estimates the burden disease by aggregating early mortality non-fatal cases in single measure potential to assist planning more appropriate actions at different levels health care. scope this article is estimate due Florianópolis/SC from April 2020 through...

Relevance . Assessment of the burden disease provides information on economic consequences disease, allows you to assess social significance, identify areas that require additional clinical and research, changes in methodological approaches organization measures for prevention, early detection treatment diseases. The aim socioeconomic global COVID-19 Russian Federation (RF). Materials methods I...

Ambient air pollution causes a considerable disease burden, particularly in South Asia. The objective of the study is to test the feasibility of applying the environmental burden of disease method at state level in India and to quantify a first set of disease burden estimates due to ambient air pollution in Kerala. Particulate Matter (PM) was used as an indicator for ambient air pollution. The ...

The 20th century saw life expectancy double and the world population quadruple because there was a global shift of morbidity and mortality from infectious to noninfectious causes. Cardiovascular diseases became the leading cause of death, of which 80% is borne by lowand middle-income countries. More specifically, thromboembolic conditions have been estimated to account for 1 in 4 deaths worldwi...