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Schizophrenia in Thailand: prevalence and burden of disease
Pudtan Phanthunane , Theo Vos , Harvey Whiteford, Melanie Bertram, Pichet Udomratn
Population Health Metrics 2010, 8:24 (17 August 2010)
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A comparison of physicians and medical assistants in interpreting verbal autopsy interviews for allocating cause of neonatal death in Matlab, Bangladesh: can medical assistants be considered an alternative to physicians?
Hafizur R Chowdhury, Sandra C Thompson, Mohammed Ali, Nurul Alam , Mohammed Yunus , Peter K Streatfield
Population Health Metrics 2010, 8:23 (17 August 2010)
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The effect of participant nonresponse on HIV prevalence estimates in a population-based survey in two informal settlements in Nairobi city
Abdhalah K Ziraba, Nyovani J Madise, Mwau Matilu, Eliya Zulu, John Kebaso, Samoel Khamadi, Vincent Okoth, Alex C Ezeh
Population Health Metrics 2010, 8:22 (22 July 2010)
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Verbal autopsy interpretation: a comparative analysis of the InterVA model versus physician review in determining causes of death in the Nairobi DSS
Samuel O Oti, Catherine Kyobutungi
Population Health Metrics 2010, 8:21 (29 June 2010)
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Consistency and precision of cancer reporting in a multiwave national panel survey
Anna Zajacova, Jennifer Beam Dowd, Robert F Schoeni, Robert B Wallace
Population Health Metrics 2010, 8:20 (25 June 2010)
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Designing verbal autopsy studies
Gary King, Ying Lu, Kenji Shibuya
Population Health Metrics 2010, 8:19 (23 June 2010)
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A set of indicators for decomposing the secular increase of life expectancy
Valentin Rousson, Fred Paccaud
Population Health Metrics 2010, 8:18 (9 June 2010)
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Thermal discomfort with cold extremities in relation to age, gender, and body mass index in a random sample of a Swiss urban population
Maneli Mozaffarieh, Paola Fontana Gasio, Andreas Schötzau, Selim Orgül, Josef Flammer, Kurt Kräuchi
Population Health Metrics 2010, 8:17 (4 June 2010)
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Estimating prevalence of overweight and obesity at the neighborhood level: the value of maternal height and weight data available on birth certificate records
David A Webb, Jessica M Robbins, Joan R Bloch, Jennifer F Culhane
Population Health Metrics 2010, 8:16 (25 May 2010)
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Early mortality experience in a large military cohort and a comparison of mortality data sources
Tomoko I Hooper, Gary D Gackstetter, Cynthia A LeardMann, Edward J Boyko, Lisa A Pearse, Besa Smith, Paul J Amoroso, Tyler C Smith, the Millennium Cohort Study Team
Population Health Metrics 2010, 8:15 (24 May 2010)
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Estimated causes of death in Thailand, 2005: implications for health policy
Yawarat Porapakkham, Chalapati Rao, Junya Pattaraarchachai, Warangkana Polprasert, Theo Vos, Timothy Adair, Alan D Lopez
Population Health Metrics 2010, 8:14 (18 May 2010)
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Cause-of-death ascertainment for deaths that occur outside hospitals in Thailand: application of verbal autopsy methods
Warangkana Polprasert, Chalapati Rao, Timothy Adair, Junya Pattaraarchachai, Yawarat Porapakkham, Alan D Lopez
Population Health Metrics 2010, 8:13 (18 May 2010)
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Cause-specific mortality patterns among hospital deaths in Thailand: validating routine death certification
Junya Pattaraarchachai, Chalapati Rao, Warangkana Polprasert, Yawarat Porapakkham, Wansa Pao-in, Noppcha Singwerathum, Alan D Lopez
Population Health Metrics 2010, 8:12 (18 May 2010)
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Verifying causes of death in Thailand: rationale and methods for empirical investigation
Chalapati Rao, Yawarat Porapakkham, Junya Pattaraarchachai, Warangkana Polprasert, Narumol Swampunyalert, Alan D Lopez
Population Health Metrics 2010, 8:11 (18 May 2010)
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Algorithms for enhancing public health utility of national causes-of-death data
Mohsen Naghavi, Susanna Makela, Kyle Foreman, Janaki O'Brien, Farshad Pourmalek, Rafael Lozano
Population Health Metrics 2010, 8:9 (10 May 2010)
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Comparing population health in the United States and Canada
David Feeny, Mark S Kaplan, Nathalie Huguet, Bentson H McFarland
Population Health Metrics 2010, 8:8 (29 April 2010)
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Analysis of five-year trends in self-reported language preference and issues of item non-response among Hispanic persons in a large cross-sectional health survey: implications for the measurement of an ethnic minority population
William S Pearson, William S Garvin, Earl S Ford, Lina S Balluz
Population Health Metrics 2010, 8:7 (22 April 2010)
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Deaths from heart failure: using coarsened exact matching to correct cause-of-death statistics
Gretchen A Stevens, Gary King, Kenji Shibuya
Population Health Metrics 2010, 8:6 (13 April 2010)
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The burden of injuries in Iranian children in 2005
Mohsen Naghavi, Farshad Pourmalek, Saeid Shahraz, Nahid Jafari, Bahram Delavar, Mohammad Esmail Motlagh
Population Health Metrics 2010, 8:5 (31 March 2010)
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Statistical modeling of volume of alcohol exposure for epidemiological studies of population health: the US example
Jürgen Rehm, Tara Kehoe, Gerrit Gmel, Fred Stinson, Bridget Grant, Gerhard Gmel
Population Health Metrics 2010, 8:3 (4 March 2010)
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