"Population Health Metrics" (PHM) is a BioMed Central "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." PHM is one of the few journals that focuses on population health and all of its sub-disciplines. The journal is edited by co-editors-in-chief, Christopher J.L. Murray and Alan D. Lopez and is further supported by a 25-person expert Editorial Board. The journal "is tracked by Thomson Reuters (ISI) and has a 2014 Impact Factor of 3.347.
Sample Chapter(s)
Preface (58 KB)
Components of the Book:
- Chapter 1
Hospital utilization rates for influenza and RSV: a novel approach and critical assessment
- Chapter 2
The relative importance and stability of disease burden causes over time: summarizing regional trends on disease burden for 290 causes over 28 years
- Chapter 3
Generating age-specific mortality statistics from incomplete death registration data: two applications of the empirical completeness method
- Chapter 4
Determining the sex-specific distributions of average daily alcohol consumption using cluster analysis: is there a separate distribution for people with alcohol dependence?
- Chapter 5
Comparative analysis of completeness of death registration, adult mortality and life expectancy at birth in Brazil at the subnational level
- Chapter 6
The cross-sectional average length of healthy life (HCAL): a measure that summarizes the history of cohort health and mortality
- Chapter 7
Estimating the number and length of episodes in disability using a Markov chain approach
- Chapter 8
Comparison of three small-area mortality metrics according to urbanity in Korea: the standardized mortality ratio, comparative mortality figure, and life expectancy
- Chapter 9
Accounting for biases in survey-based estimates of population attributable fractions
- Chapter 10
A comparative analysis of disability measures in Cameroonian surveys
- Chapter 11
Examining trends in cardiovascular disease mortality across Europe: how does the introduction of a new European Standard Population affect the description of the relative burden of cardiovascular disease?
- Chapter 12
Cause of death coding in Switzerland: evaluation based on a nationwide individual linkage of mortality and hospital in-patient records
- Chapter 13
How useful are registered birth statistics for health and social policy? A global systematic assessment of the availability and quality of birth registration data
- Chapter 14
Estimating program coverage in the treatment of severe acute malnutrition: a comparative analysis of the validity and operational feasibility of two methods
- Chapter 15
The relevance of spatial aggregation level and of applied methods in the analysis of geographical distribution of cancer mortality in mainland Portugal (2009–2013)
Readership:
Students, academics, teachers and other people attending or interested in Population Health Metrics.
Emily K. Johnson
Institute of Health Metrics and Evaluation, University of Washington, Seattle, USA
Henry Dyson
Erasmus University Rotterdam, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Tim Adair
Melbourne School of Population and Global Health, The University of Melbourne, Level 5, Building 379, 207 Bouverie Street, Carlton, Victoria, 3010, Australia
Alexander Tran
Institute for Mental Health Policy Research, Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH), 33 Ursula Franklin Street, Toronto, Ontario, M5S 2S1, Canada
Bernardo L Queiroz
Graduate Program in Demography, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Av. Antonio Carlos, Belo Horizonte, 6627, Brazil
Markus Sauerberg
Vienna Institute of Demography, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna, Austria
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