Tim Adair

Global age-sex-specific fertility, mortality, healthy life expectancy (HALE), and population estimates in 204 countries and territories, 1950-2019: a comprehensive demographic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019.

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Journal article  |  2020  |  The Lancet

BACKGROUND: Accurate and up-to-date assessment of demographic metrics is crucial for understanding a wide range of social, economi..

Estimating completeness of national and subnational death reporting in Brazil: application of record linkage methods

Luiz Fernando Lima Costa, Marli de Mesquita Silva Montenegro, Dacio de Lyra Rabello Neto, Antonio Tadeu Ribeiro de Oliveira, Jose Eduardo de Oliveira Trindade, Tim Adair, Maria de Fatima Marinho

Journal article  |  2020  |  Population Health Metrics

BACKGROUND: In Brazil, both the Civil Registry (CR) and Ministry of Health (MoH) Mortality Information System (SIM) are sources of..

Are cause of death data fit for purpose? evidence from 20 countries at different levels of socio-economic development

Kim Moesgaard Iburg, Lene Mikkelsen, Tim Adair, Alan D Lopez

Journal article  |  2020  |  PLoS One

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE: Many countries have used the new ANACONDA (Analysis of Causes of National Death for Action) tool to asse..

The role of overweight and obesity in adverse cardiovascular disease mortality trends: an analysis of multiple cause of death data from Australia and the USA

Tim Adair, Alan D Lopez

Journal article  |  2020  |  BMC Medicine

BACKGROUND: In recent years, there have been adverse trends in premature cardiovascular disease (CVD) mortality rates (35-74 years..

Measuring the completeness of death registration in 2844 Chinese counties in 2018

Xinying Zeng, Tim Adair, Lijun Wang, Peng Yin, Jinlei Qi, Yunning Liu, Jiangmei Liu, Alan D Lopez, Maigeng Zhou

Journal article  |  2020  |  BMC Medicine

BACKGROUND: Death registration completeness has never been assessed at the county level in China. Such analyses would provide crit..

Where there is no hospital: improving the notification of community deaths.

Tim Adair, Megha Rajasekhar, Khin Sandar Bo, John Hart, Viola Kwa, Md Ashfaqul Amin Mukut, Matthew Reeve, Nicola Richards, Margarita Ronderos-Torres, Don de Savigny, Daniel Cobos Muñoz, Alan D Lopez

Journal article  |  2020  |  BMC Medicine

BACKGROUND: Globally, an estimated two-thirds of all deaths occur in the community, the majority of which are not attended by a ph..

Addressing critical knowledge and capacity gaps to sustain CRVS system development.

Tim Adair, Nicola Richards, Avita Streatfield, Megha Rajasekhar, Deirdre McLaughlin, Alan D Lopez

Journal article  |  2020  |  BMC Med

BACKGROUND: Improving civil registration and vital statistics (CRVS) systems requires strengthening the capacity of the CRVS workf..

Cause of death decomposition of cohort survival comparisons.

Vladimir Canudas-Romo, Tim Adair, Stefano Mazzuco

Journal article  |  2020  |  International Journal of Epidemiology

Life expectancy is most commonly measured for a period (corresponding to mortality within a given year) or for a specific birth co..

Assessing the quality of cause of death data in six high-income countries: Australia, Canada, Denmark, Germany, Japan and Switzerland

Lene Mikkelsen, Kim Moesgaard Iburg, Tim Adair, Thomas Furst, Michael Hegnauer, Elena von der Lippe, Lauren Moran, Shuhei Nomura, Haruka Sakamoto, Kenji Shibuya, Annelene Wengler, Stephanie Willbond, Patricia Wood, Alan D Lopez

Journal article  |  2020  |  International Journal of Public Health

OBJECTIVES: To assess the policy utility of national cause of death (COD) data of six high-income countries with highly developed ..

Is the long-term decline in cardiovascular-disease mortality in high-income countries over? Evidence from national vital statistics

Alan D Lopez, Tim Adair

Journal article  |  2019  |  International Journal of Epidemiology

BACKGROUND: The substantial decline in cardiovascular-disease (CVD) mortality in high-income countries has underpinned their incre..