Mortality

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Journal Article

Can Honorific Awards Give Us Clues About the Connection Between Socioeconomic Status and Mortality? — Jan 1, 2013

Social epidemiologists Marmot and Wilkinson argue that relative deprivation is the dominant mechanism through which socioeconomic status (SES) affects mortality.

Commentary

Americans Dying Twice as Fast as French from Treatable Conditions — Sep 30, 2012

Despite high per-capita expenditures in the U.S., Americans under the age of 65 are less likely than their peers in France, Germany, or the United Kingdom to receive timely and appropriate health care, writes Ellen Nolte.

Journal Article

United States Lags Behind France, Germany, and the United Kingdom in Preventable Deaths — Aug 30, 2012

Amenable mortality—deaths that should not occur in the presence of timely and effective health care—were higher in the U.S. compared to France, Germany, and the U.K. between 1999 and 2007. Deaths from circulatory conditions like cerebrovascular disease and hypertension are the main reason amenable death rates remained high in the U.S.

Journal Article

How Long After a Miscarriage Should Women Wait Before Becoming Pregnant Again? Multivariate Analysis of Cohort Data from Matlab, Bangladesh — Aug 20, 2012

The shorter the IPI following a miscarriage, the more likely the subsequent pregnancy is to result in a live birth.

Journal Article

Differences in Life Expectancy Due to Race and Educational Differences Are Widening, and Many May Not Catch Up — Aug 1, 2012

It has long been known that despite well-documented improvements in longevity for most Americans, alarming disparities persist among racial groups and between the well-educated and those with less education.

Report

Measuring Health System Progress in Reducing Mortality from Noncommunicable Diseases — May 29, 2012

Outlines a roadmap toward a comprehensive monitoring system that national and regional decisionmakers can use to track progress toward World Health Organization goals to reduce the global burden of noncommunicable diseases.

Report

Compensation for Combat Deaths: Policy Considerations — Mar 15, 2012

This briefing identifies policy questions related to compensating service members and their survivors for fatality risk. It compares combat fatality patterns with fatalities occurring in other contexts and discusses current compensation programs.

Journal Article

Development of a Prognostic Model for Six-Month Mortality in Older Adults with Declining Health — Mar 1, 2012

This study seeks to develop a new prognostic model, the Patient-Reported Outcome Mortality Prediction Tool (PROMPT), for six-month mortality in community-dwelling elderly patients.

Project

Does Disability Insurance Save Lives? — Feb 1, 2012

Previous research has shown that changes in income and health insurance are associated with changes in health and/or mortality. An examination of administrative data may show whether receipt of Social Security Disability Insurance and participation in related programs causally affect survival rates among applicants.

Journal Article

What Are the Effects of Different Models of Delivery for Improving Maternal and Infant Health Outcomes for Poor People in Urban Areas in Low Income and Lower Middle Income Countries? — Jan 1, 2012

The burden of maternal and infant deaths falls disproportionately on low income countries (LICs) and lower middle income countries (LMCs1) and among the poorest within these countries.

Journal Article

Today's 'Meaningful Use' Standard for Medication Orders by Hospitals May Save Few Lives; Later Stages May Do More — Oct 1, 2011

Current federal standards for hospital "meaningful use" of health information technology--which requires electronic medication orders for 30 percent of eligible patients--are probably too low to reduce deaths from heart failure and heart attack among hospitalized Medicare beneficiaries.

Journal Article

Increases in Mortality, Length of Stay, and Cost Associated with Hospital-Acquired Infections in Trauma Patients — Jul 1, 2011

Many hospital-acquired infections are preventable; reducing them would reduce in-hospital mortality, length of stay, and inpatient costs for trauma patients.

Journal Article

The Protective Effect of Marriage for Survival: A Review and Update — May 1, 2011

Findings include a consistent survival advantage for married over unmarried men and women, and an additional survival

Journal Article

Trends and Inequalities in Late-Life Health and Functioning in England — Jan 1, 2011

Recently, late-life disability rates have declined in several countries of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation, but no national-level trend analysis for England has been available.

Journal Article

Positive Income Shocks and Accidental Deaths Among Cherokee Indians: A Natural Experiment — Jan 1, 2011

This study of a Cherokee Indian population in North Carolina found that sudden increases in income were associated with short-term increases in risk-taking behavior and higher rates of accidental death.

News Release

Older Americans Less Healthy Than English Counterparts, But They Live as Long or Longer — Nov 4, 2010

While Americans aged 55 to 64 have higher rates of chronic diseases than their peers in England, they die at about the same rate. And Americans age 65 and older—while still sicker than their English peers—have a lower death rate than similar people in England.

Journal Article

The Impact of Universal National Health Insurance on Population Health: The Experience of Taiwan — Aug 4, 2010

NHI was associated in a reduction in deaths considered amenable to health care; particularly among those age groups least likely to have been insured previously.

Journal Article

Response: Comments on "The Condition of the Literature on Differences in Hospital Mortality" by Mary E. W. Goss — Jul 1, 2010

The authors respond to Mary E. W. Goss's comments on their article: The Condition of the Literature on Differences in Hospital Mortality.

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