Why choice of metric matters in public health analyses: A case study of the attribution of credit for the decline in coronary heart disease mortality in the US and other populations

BMC Public Health

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Gouda, Hebe N ^a,b   Critchley, Julia ^c,d   Powles, John ^a   Capewell, Simon ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^c NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^d ST GEORGE'S UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Comparative Effectiveness Research; Coronary Heart Disease; Determinants of Mortality; Epidemiologic Methods; Policy analysis

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; EPIDEMIOLOGY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; PUBLIC HEALTH; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS; UNITED STATES;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BIAS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); CORONARY DISEASE; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PUBLIC HEALTH; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84856156637     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712458     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2458-12-88     Document Type: Article

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