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Smoking Cessation and Short- and Longer-Term Mortality
In this pooled analysis of four national cohorts in the US, UK, Canada and Norway (total of…
Trends in female-selective abortion among Asian diasporas in the United States, United Kingdom, Canada and Australia
Preference for sons and smaller families and, in the case of China,…
Mortality Associated with Ambient PM2.5 Exposure in India: Results from the Million Death Study
Studies on the extent to which long-term exposure to ambient particulate matter (PM) with aerodynamic diameter ≤2.5μm (PM2.5) contributes to adult mortality in India are few, despite over 99% of Indians being exposed to levels that the World Health Organization (WHO) considers unsafe.
Omicron BA.1/1.1 SARS-CoV-2 Infection among Vaccinated Canadian Adults
The incidence of the omicron BA.1/1.1 variant of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), which rapidly…
Child, Maternal, and Adult Mortality in Sierra Leone: Nationally Representative Mortality Survey 2018-2020
Background Sierra Leone’s child and maternal mortality rates are among the highest…
Identifying the changing age distribution of opioid-related mortality with high-frequency data
|| Lauren A. Paul, Ye Li, Pamela Leece, Tara Gomes, Ahmed M….
Virus Death Toll 9 Million Higher: India Stalls W.H.O. Effort to Release New Tally
Virus Death Toll 9 Million Higher: India Stalls W.H.O. Effort to Release New Tally — By STEPHANIE…
COVID Mortality in India: National Survey Data and Health Facility Deaths
India’s national COVID death totals remain undetermined. Using an independent nationally representative survey of 0.14 million (M)…
Verbal autopsy: Critical eye on a valuable tool for mortality surveillance
by Hellen Gelband The Lancet Regional Health – Americas, 2021 In certain parts of the world, a…
Trends in maternal mortality in India over two decades in nationally-representative surveys
We analyzed trends in the maternal mortality ratio (MMR) from 1997 through…
Trends in missing females at birth in India from 1981 to 2016: analyses of 2·1 million birth histories in nationally representative surveys
Half of the world’s missing female births occur in India, due to…
Missing Girls in India (English)
Video news release for a recent study that found up to 13.5M missing girls in India over 3 decades as a result of selective abortion.