The Association Between Income and Life Expectancy in the United States, 2001-2014
http://jama.jamanetwork.com/article.aspx?articleid=2513561&utm_term=alsomay
Age-aggregation bias in mortality trends
http://www.pnas.org/content/113/7/E816.full
Monthly Archives: July 2016
To read: recent pubs on US county life expectancy
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NPR version of GBD Hepatitis Paper
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New paper: The potential to expand antiretroviral therapy by improving health facility efficiency
Our work on benchmarking efficiency is now out: http://bmcmedicine.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12916-016-0653-z
It uses some very cool econ and OR methods, and it even has a press release: http://www.healthdata.org/news-release/improving-health-facility-efficiency-could-markedly-expand-hiv-treatment :
“Improving efficiency can support major gains in expanding ART to people who need treatment, especially when funding is limited,” says IHME Assistant Professor Abraham Flaxman, senior author of the study. “Now we, as a global health community, need to figure out how.”
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Ways to have a good “classroom climate”
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Why do I call that variable `clf`?
From the sklearn docs: “We call our estimator instance `clf`, as it is a classifier.” http://scikit-learn.org/stable/tutorial/basic/tutorial.html#learning-and-predicting
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GBD results on Hepatitis
It took a while, but we finally managed to put together all the GBD results on hepatitis: http://thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(16)30579-7/abstract
It has had some traction with the press: http://www.bbc.com/news/health-36717828
http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2016/07/hepatitis-kills-aids-tb-160707040458197.html
http://www.20minutos.com.mx/noticia/109751/0/la-hepatitis-se-convierte-en-la-principal-causa-de-muerte-en-el-mundo/
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Healthy Algorithms 