Population Health Metrics

Advancing innovation in health measurement

Population Health Metrics is an open access, peer-reviewed, online journal featuring innovative research that addresses all aspects of the measurement of population health, including concepts, methods, ethics, and results.

Editors-in-Chief

Christopher J.L. Murray, Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, University of Washington
Alan D. Lopez, University of Queensland School of Population Health

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Age of onset in chronic diseases: new method and application to dementia in Germany

Brinks R, Landwehr S and Waldeyer R Population Health Metrics 2013, 11:6 (2 May 2013)
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Mortality following the Haitian earthquake of 2010: a stratified cluster survey

Doocy S, Cherewick M and Kirsch T Population Health Metrics 2013, 11:5 (25 April 2013)
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Association of blood lipids, creatinine, albumin, and CRP with socioeconomic status in Malawi

Kohler IV, Soldo BJ, Anglewicz P, Chilima B and Kohler HP Population Health Metrics 2013, 11:4 (28 February 2013)
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Mortality and excess risk in US adults with pre-diabetes and diabetes: a comparison of two nationally representative cohorts, 1988–2006

Stokes A and Mehta NK Population Health Metrics 2013, 11:3 (28 February 2013)
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Mortality in an Aboriginal Medical Service (Redfern) cohort

Morrell S, Phillips B, Taylor R, Daniels J, Burgess K and Mayers N Population Health Metrics 2013, 11:2 (7 February 2013)
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Decomposing Indigenous life expectancy gap by risk factors: a life table analysis

Zhao Y, Wright J, Begg S and Guthridge S Population Health Metrics 2013, 11:1 (29 January 2013)
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Household food access and child malnutrition: results from the eight-country MAL-ED study

Psaki S, Bhutta ZA, Ahmed T, Ahmed S, Bessong P, Islam M, John S, Kosek M et al. Population Health Metrics 2012, 10:24 (13 December 2012)
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Looking at the smoking epidemic through the lens of population pyramids: sociodemographic patterns of smoking in Italy, 1983 to 2005

Federico B, Capelli G, Costa G, Mackenbach JP and Kunst AE Population Health Metrics 2012, 10:23 (28 November 2012)
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how much variance explainable by IQ?

Comment on: Kulkarni et al. Population Health Metrics 2011, 9:16
Social autopsy

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Exploring the details of these findings

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"Falling behind: life expectancy in US counties from 2000 to 2007 in an international context" published in Population Health Metrics in June 2011, has been one of the most highly-accessed articles across BioMed Central's journals, with over 31,000 page views in 10 weeks.

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Featured research

Age of onset in chronic diseases: new method and application to dementia in Germany

Brinks R, Landwehr S and Waldeyer R

Population Health Metrics 2013, 11:6

Quotes

"As the importance of health in the global agenda grows, so does the responsibility to measure accurately its complex dimensions and to assess the effects of increasing investments on population health. The present burst of political and financial will to improve global health has to be matched by an adequate response from the community of experts in constructing a firm foundation of metrics and evaluation."

Dr Christopher J. L. Murray
Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation