Health system financing fragmentation and maternal mortality transition in Mexico, 2000–2022 by Edson Serván-Mori, Carlos Pineda-Antúnez, Diego Cerecero-García, Laura Flamand, Alejandro Mohar-Betancourt, Christopher Millett, Thomas Hone, Rodrigo Moreno-Serra, Octavio Gómez-Dantés

“…Findings MMR in Mexico decreased from 59.3 maternal deaths per hundred thousand live births in 2000 to 47.3 in 2018. …”
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Italijansko nasilje na območju Bloške planote, 1941–1943 by Mirjam Dujo Jurjevčič

“…In April 1941, the Bloke Plateau was occupied by Italian forces, who caused the highest number of deaths during the Second World War in the area in question, i.e. 23% of all casualties, most of which were civilians. …”
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Changing dynamics of bloodstream infections due to methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus and vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus faecium in Germany, 2017–2023: a continued burd... by Simon Brinkwirth, Marcel Feig, Ines Noll, Tim Eckmanns, Achim Dörre, Sebastian Haller, Niklas Willrich

“…We estimated incidences as a first step to further use these rates to calculate DALYs and attributable deaths using the Burden of Communicable Disease in Europe toolkit. …”
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Outcomes of COVID-19 in the Omicron-predominant wave: large-scale real-world data analysis with a comparison to influenza by Koichi Miyashita, Hironao Hozumi, Kazuki Furuhashi, Eiji Nakatani, Yusuke Inoue, Hideki Yasui, Yuzo Suzuki, Masato Karayama, Noriyuki Enomoto, Tomoyuki Fujisawa, Naoki Inui, Toshiyuki Ojima, Takafumi Suda

“…However, the number of deaths increased substantially in the Omicron-predominant wave, especially among the elderly (e.g., in the Delta- and Omicron-predominant waves, the average numbers of deaths/cases per week were < 1/5527 (< 0.01%) and 4/105,763 (< 0.01%) respectively, in patients aged 0–19, versus 101/925 (10.9%) and 1212/20,771 (5.8%), respectively, in patients aged ≥ 80). …”
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Cost savings of reducing opioid prescribing for the treatment of people with low back pain in general practice: a modelling studyResearch in context by Anagha Killedar, Romi Haas, Alexandra Gorelik, Sean Docking, Rachelle Buchbinder, Chris G. Maher, Chung-Wei Christine Lin, Alison Hayes

“…Healthcare costs and change in overdose deaths associated with strategies delivering 0–100% relative reduction in opioid prescribing for LBP in primary care were estimated with a one-year time horizon. …”
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Evaluation of rabies control measure effectiveness in the Russian Federation by S. V. Shcherbinin, T. V. Vadopalas, F. I. Korennoy, K. A. Blokhina, A. K. Karaulov

“…Rabies is a zooanthroponotic disease, causing significant economic damage, resulting from losses due to livestock deaths, costs of preventive measures and diagnostic tests. …”
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Smart In-Cabin Air Monitoring System using IoT Technologies by Falah Y H Ahmed, Jabar H. Yousif, Marwan Alshar’e, Maram El Sheikh, Ehsan Al-Ajmi, Mahmood Al-Bahri

“…While car crashes are looked at as the source of deaths related to vehicles, lack of oxygen and cabin overheating-related deaths have been rising. …”
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Quantitative Analysis of COVID-19 Pandemic Responses Based on an Improved SEIR-SD Model by Yang Liu, Bingrui Liu, Yi Deng, Jia Liu

“…In late 2019, the COVID-19 pandemic began to spread over the world, causing millions of deaths. In the first few months of the pandemic, several countries (such as China) prevented the spread of the pandemic successfully. …”
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A Review of Healthcare Challenges in the UK and the US: Medical Errors, Aging, Private Healthcare and Governance by John S. Bolwell

“…Deaths and serious injuries caused by medical errors continue to beset the healthcare systems of all developed countries. …”
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Greenness and averted mortality in 390 cities in China (2000–2020)Research in context by John S. Ji, Zheng Tao, Hui Miao, Tom Cole-Hunter, Xuecao Li, David Rojas-Rueda, Wenjia Cai

“…Based on counterfactual scenarios, we calculated averted deaths attributed to NDVI changes from 2000 to 2020. …”
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Probability of Dying in Each of the Competing Risks under Bimorbid Condition by Kalpana Singh, Suddhendu Biswas

“…This is obtained by choice of a model which is bivariate negative binomial distribution for obtaining the number of deaths (assuming the deaths occur in the last trial). …”
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A cost/benefit analysis of clinical trial designs for COVID-19 vaccine candidates. by Donald A Berry, Scott Berry, Peter Hale, Leah Isakov, Andrew W Lo, Kien Wei Siah, Chi Heem Wong

“…We compare and contrast the expected duration and number of infections and deaths averted among several designs for clinical trials of COVID-19 vaccine candidates, including traditional and adaptive randomized clinical trials and human challenge trials. …”
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“Rodovírus” ou “Caronavírus”? Mapas da Distribuição do Covid-19 na Região Sul do Brasil: Indícios da contaminação por rodovias by Ricardo R. Monteiro, Rangel Angelotti, Luiz Fernando de Carli Lautert, Paulo Eduardo Angelin, João Portes

“…In this paper maps of the Southern region allow the visualization of COVID-19 cases by municipality, cumulative cases, cumulative deaths, incidence rate of cases per 100,000 inhabitants (relationship between cases and population of the municipality) and the case-fatality rate (relationship between the number of deaths and the number of people infected). …”
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The burden of prostate cancer in the North Africa and Middle East Region from 1990 to 2021 by Saeid Safiri, Ali Shamekh, Kamaleddin Hassanzadeh, Asra Fazlollahi, Mark J. M. Sullman, Mortaza Raeisi, Ali-Asghar Kolahi

“…This study sought to document the incidence, deaths and disability-adjusted life-years (DALYs) that were due to prostate cancer in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region, and its 21 countries, from 1990 to 2021. …”
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Data from Emergency Medical Service Activities: A Novel Approach to Monitoring COVID-19 and Other Infectious Diseases by Daniele del Re, Luigi Palla, Paolo Meridiani, Livia Soffi, Michele Tancredi Loiudice, Martina Antinozzi, Maria Sofia Cattaruzza

“…<b>Background</b>: Italy, particularly the northern region of Lombardy, has experienced very high rates of COVID-19 cases and deaths. Several indicators, i.e., the number of new positive cases, deaths and hospitalizations, have been used to monitor virus spread, but all suffer from biases. …”
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The burden of chronic kidney disease attributable to high sodium intake: a longitudinal study in 1990–2019 in China by Yongyao Shen, Liying Jiang, Liying Jiang, Jin Yu, Bo Chen, Aidong Liu, Yongjin Guo, Yongjin Guo

“…The age-specific numbers and rates of deaths, as well as DALYs increase with age are higher in males than in females. …”
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Action against birth defects: if not now, when? by Kathleen Strong, Judith Robb-McCord, Salimah Walani, Cecilia Mellado, Lorenzo D. Botto, Guillermo Lay-Son, Theresa Diaz, Tahmina Banu, Kokila Lakhoo, Anshu Banerjee

“…Action against birth defects now will prevent premature deaths and long-term disability, and lead to stronger, more resilient health systems.…”
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Impact of monthly air pollution and weather conditions on cardiorespiratory mortality in Portuguese Metropolitan Areas by Ediclê de Souza Fernandes Duarte, Paulo Sérgio Lucio, Lígia Henriques-Rodrigues, Maria João Costa

“…The results show that PMA had a higher average CARDIO rate (202.94 [Deaths per 100 000]) compared to LMA (169.70 [Deaths per 100 000]). …”
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Modeling vaccination prioritization strategies for post-pandemic COVID-19 in the Republic of Korea accounting for under-reporting and age-structure by Geunsoo Jang, Jihyeon Kim, Robin N. Thompson, Hyojung Lee

“…First, administering vaccines to older age groups reduces the number of deaths, while instead targeting younger individuals reduces the number of infections. …”
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Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease and Lung Cancer Mortality Attributed to Air Pollution in Türkiye in 2019 by Didem Han Yekdeş, Ali Cem Yekdeş, Ülfiye Çelikkalp, Pelin Sarı Serin, Miraç Çağlayan, Galip Ekuklu

“…Abstract Approximately seven million premature deaths occurred due to several health problems caused by air pollution. …”
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