Investigating the remuneration of health workers in the DR Congo: implications for the health workforce and the health system in a fragile setting
Maria Paola Bertone, Gregoire Lurton and Paulin Beya Mutombo
http://heapol.oxfordjournals.org/content/early/2016/01/11/heapol.czv131.abstract
Category Archives: global health
Paper with Cool Method
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Diabetes by County in USA
Diagnosed and Undiagnosed Diabetes Prevalence by County in the US, 1999–2012
Authors
Laura Dwyer-Lindgren, Johan P Mackenbach, Frank J van Lenthe, Abraham D Flaxman, Ali H Mokdad
Publication date
2016/9/1
Journal
Diabetes Care
Volume
39
http://care.diabetesjournals.org/content/39/9/1556.abstract
Cool maps:
http://vizhub.healthdata.org/us-health-map/
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DALYs averted by MSF facility
I helped with a calculation that is now published in this paper: Averted health burden over 4 years at Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) Trauma Centre in Kunduz, Afghanistan, prior to its closure in 2015
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0039606016301994
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I like AltMetrics now
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Using maximum weight to redefine body mass index categories in studies of the mortality risks of obesity
Left behind: widening disparities for males and females in US county life expectancy, 1985–2010
Projected growth of the adult congenital heart disease population in the United States to 2050: an integrative systems modeling approach
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To read: recent pubs on US county life expectancy
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
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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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Update on Polio
Nice update on polio eradication efforts from Heidi Larson’s Vaccine Confidence Report: http://www.vaccineconfidence.org/is-the-big-switch-the-final-piece-in-the-polio-jigsaw/
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For future journal clubs
Improving the measurement of maternal mortality in Thailand using multiple data sources
Chandoevwit W, Phatchana P, Sirigomon K, Ieawsuwan K, Thungthong J, Ruangdej S
Population Health Metrics 2016, 14 :16 (4 May 2016)
http://pophealthmetrics.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12963-016-0087-z
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Marie’s approach to BMI
Another one for the reading list:
Article alert
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The following new articles have just been published in Population Health Metrics
Research
A novel method for estimating distributions of body mass index
Ng M, Liu P, Thomson B, Murray C
Population Health Metrics 2016, 14 :6 (12 March 2016)
http://pophealthmetrics.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12963-016-0076-2
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Healthy Algorithms 