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...

Health reforms that emphasize public health and improvements in primary care can be cost-effective measures to achieve health improvements, especially in developing countries that face severe resource constraints. In their paper "Shanghai rising: health improvements as measured by avoidable mortality since 2000," Gusmano et al suggest that Shanghai's health policy-makers have been successful in...

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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Over the past two decades, Shanghai, the largest megacity in China, has been coping with unprecedented growth of its economy and population while overcoming previous underinvestment in the health system by the central and local governments. We study the evolution of Shanghai’s healthcare system by analyzing “Avoidable Mortality” (AM) – deaths amenable to public health and healthcare interventio...