The Gini coefficient of the life table is a concentration index that provides information on lifespan variation. Originally proposed by economists to measure income and wealth inequalities, it has been widely used in population studies to investigate variation in ages at death. We focus on a complementary indicator, Drewnowski's index, which is as ...
Background: Influenza mortality has dramatically decreased in France since the 1950s. Annual death rates peaked during two pandemics: the Asian flu (1956–1957) and the Hong Kong flu (1969–1970). Objective: This study’s objective is to evaluate whether the second pandemic created a structural change in the dynamics of influenza mortality in France. ...
La population mondiale franchit le seuil de 8 milliards en 2022 et devrait atteindre 9 milliards vers 2037. La croissance démographique décélère pourtant : ayant atteint un maximum de plus de 2 % par an il y a soixante ans, elle a diminué de moitié depuis (1 % en 2022) et devrait continuer de baisser jusqu’à la quasi-stabilisation de la population ...
Respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) and influenza viruses are important global causes of morbidity and mortality. We evaluated the diagnostic accuracy of the Luminex NxTAG respiratory pathogen panels (RPPs)™ (index) against other RPPs (comparator) for detection of RSV and influenza viruses. Studies comparing human clinical respiratory samples tested ...
Current climate change aggravates human health hazards posed by heat stress. Forests can locally mitigate this by acting as strong thermal buffers, yet potential mediation by forest ecological characteristics remains underexplored. We report over 14 months of hourly microclimate data from 131 forest plots across four European countries and compare ...
BACKGROUND: It remains controversial whether critical illness-related hyperglycemia should be treated or not, since randomized controlled trials (RCTs) have shown context-dependent outcome effects. Whereas pioneer RCTs found improved outcome by normalizing blood glucose in patients receiving early parenteral nutrition (PN), a multicenter RCT reveal...
BACKGROUND: Though Ethiopia has expanded Maternity Waiting Homes (MWHs) to reduce maternal and perinatal mortality, the utilization rate is low. To maximize the use of MWH, policymakers must be aware of the barriers and benefits of using MWH. This review aimed to describe the evidence on the barriers and benefits to access and use of MWHs in Ethiop...
Influenza mortality has dramatically decreased in France since the 1950s. Annual death rates peaked during two pandemics: the Asian flu (1956-57) and the Hong-Kong flu (1969-1970). This study’s objective is to evaluate whether the second pandemic created a structural change in the dynamics of influenza mortality in France. We employ a new database ...
En el intento de construir marcos teóricos que sinteticen las razones que se han dado para explicar los cambios en los perfiles epidemiológicos a lo largo de la historia, surge la teoría de la transición epidemiológica. Muchos han sido los cuestionamientos que se han hecho a esta teoría, entre ellos los realizados por Frenk et al. (1991a) quienes a...
In the pre-PSA-detection era, a large proportion of men were diagnosed with metastatic prostate cancer and died of the disease; after the introduction of the serum PSA test, randomized controlled prostate cancer screening trials in the USA and Europe were conducted to assess the effect of PSA screening on prostate cancer mortality. Contradictory ou...
