Mortality data and cause of death analysis constitute essential components of epidemiological surveillance and public health policy. By examining the completeness and accuracy of death registration ...

In a recent study published in the journal PLOS ONE, researchers analyzed nine mortality indicators on a global scale, starting from 1990 and projecting to 2030, to understand concepts of convergence ...

Recent global crises have exposed the limits of a universal mortality threshold for declaring famine-an approach that can obscure how famine actually unfolds across different populations. In a paper ...

"Ninety-day mortality" after lung cancer treatment is a commonly used indicator of a radiotherapy facility quality, but without systematic study. This retrospective cohort study of 18,355 Dutch ...

When it comes to trends in mortality over the last thirty years, countries around the world can be grouped into five clusters, roughly representing the five continents, according to a new study ...

The COVID-19 pandemic that reached Europe in 2020 has often been compared to the Spanish flu pandemic of 1918. In this article, we compare the two pandemics in terms of their respective impacts on the ...

When it comes to trends in mortality over the last thirty years, countries around the world can be grouped into five clusters, roughly representing the five continents, according to a new study ...

Loma Linda University Health researchers say high consumption of ultra-processed foods and, separately, high consumption of red meat may be important mortality indicators. Their recently published ...

NEW DELHI: India has witnessed a significant improvement in key maternal and child health indicators between 2014 and 2021, according to a health ministry statement. The Maternal Mortality Ratio (MMR) ...