Rural-urban differentials of premature mortality burden in south-west China

International Journal for Equity in Health

Volumn 5, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Cai, Le ^a   Chongsuvivatwong, Virasakdi ^b  

^a KUNMING MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b PRINCE OF SONGKLA UNIVERSITY   (Thailand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CHILD; CHINA; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; COMMUNICABLE DISEASE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEATH CERTIFICATE; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFANT; INFECTION; INJURY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; NEWBORN; PERINATAL MORBIDITY; RURAL AREA; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; STROKE; SUBURBAN AREA; URBAN AREA;

EID: 33750214385     PISSN: 14759276     EISSN: 14759276     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1475-9276-5-13     Document Type: Article

References (39)

1. World Development Report 1993: investing in health. New York: Oxford University Press; 1993.
2. Fan SG, Zhang LX, Zhang XB: Growth, Ineqyality, and Povety in Rural China: the Role of Public Investments. IFPRI Research Report 125 2002.
3. Yu DZ: Changes in Health Care Financing and Health Status: The Case of China in the 1980s. Economic Policy Series, No 34, International Child Development Centre, UNICEF; 1992.
4. Wu SL, Zhu AR: The direction and method to allocate health resources for Chinese government. Journal of Chinese Rural Health Management 1999, 19(7):33-34.
5. Yunnan Statistical Yearbook: 2004: Compiled by Yunnan Province Statistical Bureau Beijing: China Statistics Press; 2005.
6. Murray CJL, Lopez AD: The Global burden of Disease: A comprehensive assessment of mortality and disability from diseases, injuries, and risk factors in 1990 projected to 2020. Cambridge, Mass: Harvard School of Public Health; 1996.
7. Murray CJL, Lopez AD: Alternative projections of mortality and disability by cause 1990-2020: Global Burden of Disease study. Lancet 1997, 349(9064):1498-1504.
8. Murray CJL, Lopez AD: The global burden of disease. Cambridge (MA): Harvard school of Public Health on behalf of the World Health Organization and the World Bank; Global Burden of Disease and Injury Series 1996, 1:.
9. Murray CJL, Lopez A: The incremental effect of age-weighting on YLLs, YLDs, and DALYs: a response. Bulletin of the World Health Organization 1996, 74(4):445-46.
10. Barendregt JJ, Bonneux L, Van der Mass PJ: DALYs: the age-weights on balance. Bulletin of the World Health Organization 1996, 74(4):439-443.
11. Anand S, Hanson K: Disability adjusted life years: a critical review. Journal of Health Economics 1997, 16:685-702.
12. Coale A, Guo G: Revised regional model life tables at very low levels of mortality. Population Index 1989, 55(5):613-643.
13. Chiang CL: The life table and its construction. In From: Introduction to stochastic processes in Biostatistics Volume Chapter 9. New York: John Willey & Sons; 1968:189-241.
14. Xia Y, Gong YL, Gu XY, Shu BG: The burden of disease study in Shanghai city. Chinese Journal of Health Statistics 2000, 17(4):211-214.
15. Liu MN, Ji WY, Liu QM, Sui CL: Years of life lost due to premature death in Ha Erbing city. Chinese Journal of Health Statistics 2002, 19(4):225-227.
16. Hyder AA, Morrow RH: Applying burden of disease methods in developing countries: A case study from Pakistan. American Journal of Public Health 2000, 90(8):1235-1240.
17. Wurthwein R, Gbangou A, Sauerborn R, Schmidt CM: Measuring the local burden of disease. A study of years of life lost in sub-Saharan Africa. International Journal of Epidemiology 2001, 30(3):501-508.
18. Schopper D, Pereira J, Torres A, Cuende N, Alonso M, Baylin A, Ammon C, Rougemont A: Estimating the burden of disease in one Swiss canton: what do disability adjusted life years (DALY) tell us? International Journal of Epidemiology 2000, 29(5):871-877.
19. Kominski GF, Simon PA, Ho A, Luck J, Lim YW, Fielding JE: Assessing the burden of disease and injury in Los Angeles county using disability-adjusted life years. Public Health Reports 2002, 117(2):185-191.
20. Zhu WX: The one child family policy. Archives of Disease in Childhood 2003, 88:463-464.
21. Brand I: Medical services in China. Australian and New Zealand Journal of Medicine 2000, 30:272-274.
22. Mason W: Recent trends in infant mortality in China. Mathematical Social Sciences 1993, 25(3):310-312.
23. Reed DM: The paradox of high risk of stroke in populations with low risk of coronary heart disease. American Journal of Epidemiology 1990, 131(4):579-588.
24. Tunstall-Pedoe H, Kuulasmaa K, Amouyel P, Arveiler D, Rajakangas AM, Pajak A: Myocardial infarction and coronary deaths in the World Health Organization MONICA Project: registration procedures, event rates, and case-fatality rates in 38 populations from 21 countries in four continents. Circulation 1994, 90:583-612.
25. Zhang J, Kesteloot H: Differences in all-cause, cardiovascular and cancer mortality between HongKong and Singapore: Role of nutrition. European Journal of Epidemiology 2001, 17(5):469-477.
26. Liau CS: Cardiovascular disease in later life in Taiwan. Geriatrics and Gerontology International 2004, 4:S304-S306.
27. Yang G, Fan L, Tan J, Qi G, Zhang Y, Samet JM, Taylor CE, Becker K, Xu J: Smoking in China: Findings of the 1996 National Prevalence Survey. JAMA 1999, 282(3):1247-1253.
28. Yunnan statistical yearbook: 2002: Compiled by Yunnan Province Statistical Bureau Beijing: China Statistics Press; 2003.
29. Ezzati M, Lopez AD: Regional, disease specific patterns of smoking-attributable mortality in 2000. Tobacco Control 2004, 13:388-395.
30. Bruce N, Perez-Padilla R, Albalak R: The health effects of indoor air pollution exposure in developing countries Geneva: World Health Organization; 2002.
31. Desai MA, Mehta S, Smith KR: Indoor smoke from solid fuels: assessing the environmental burden of disease at national and local levels. In WHO environmental burden of disease series. No. 4 Geneva: World Health Organization; 2004.
32. Odero W, Garner P, Zwi A: Road traffic injuries in developing countries: a comprehensive review of epidemiological studies. Tropical Medicine & International Health 1997, 2(5):445-460.
33. Suriyawongpaisal P, Kanchanasut S: Road-traffic injuries in Thailand: trends, selected underlying determinants and status of intervention. International Journal of Injury Control and Safety Promotion 2003, 10:95-104.
34. Wang SY, Hu YL: Road injuries, epidemiological features and risk factors of traffic injury in China. Chinese Journal of Epidemiology 1997, 18:142-144.
35. Kpk LP, Wen-Shing T, (Eds): Suicidal Behavior in the Asia-Pacific Region Singapore: Singapore University Press; 1992.
36. Goldsmith SK, Pellmar TC, Kleinman AM, Bunney WE, (Eds): Reducing Suicide: A National Imperative Washington, DC: National Academies Press; 2002.
37. Rotheram-Borus MJ, Piacentini J, Cantwell C, Belin TR, Song J: The 18-month impact of an emergency room intervention for adolescent female suicide attempters. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology 2000, 68:1081-93.
38. Yang G, Hu J, Rao KQ, Ma J, Rao C, Lopez AD: Mortality registration and surveillance in China: History, current situation and challenges. Population Health Metrics 2005, 3:3.
39. Murray CJL, Lopez AD: Global mortality, disability and contribution of risk factors: Global Burden of Disease study. Lancet 1997, 349(9063):1436-1442.