Tim Adair

Routine mortality surveillance to identify the cause of death pattern for out-of-hospital adult (aged 12 years) deaths in Bangladesh: introduction of automated verbal autopsy

Md Toufiq Hassan Shawon, Shah Ali Akbar Ashrafi, Abul Kalam Azad, Sonja M Firth, Hafizur Chowdhury, Robert G Mswia, Tim Adair, Ian Riley, Carla Abouzahr, Alan D Lopez

Journal article  |  2021  |  BMC Public Health

BACKGROUND: In Bangladesh, a poorly functioning national system of registering deaths and determining their causes leaves the coun..

Decentralization of birth registration to Local Government in Tanzania: the association with completeness of birth registration and certification

Christopher Sanga, Gregory Kabadi, Emilian Karugendo, Don de Savigny, Daniel Cobos Munoz, Tim Adair

Journal article  |  2020  |  Global Health Action

Global Burden of Cardiovascular Diseases and Risk Factors, 1990-2019: Update From the GBD 2019 Study.

Gregory A Roth, George A Mensah, Catherine O Johnson, Giovanni Addolorato, Enrico Ammirati, Larry M Baddour, Noël C Barengo, Andrea Z Beaton, Emelia J Benjamin, Catherine P Benziger, Aimé Bonny, Michael Brauer, Marianne Brodmann, Thomas J Cahill, Jonathan Carapetis, Alberico L Catapano, Sumeet S Chugh, Leslie T Cooper, Josef Coresh, Michael Criqui, et al.

Journal article  |  2020  |  Journal of the American College of Cardiology

Cardiovascular diseases (CVDs), principally ischemic heart disease (IHD) and stroke, are the leading cause of global mortality and..

An egalitarian society? Widening inequalities in premature mortality from non-communicable diseases in Australia, 2006-16.

Tim Adair, Alan D Lopez

Journal article  |  2020  |  International Journal of Epidemiology

BACKGROUND: The recent slowdown in life expectancy increase in Australia has occurred concurrently with widening socioeconomic and..

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

Haidong Wang, Kaja M Abbas, Mitra Abbasifard, Mohsen Abbasi-Kangevari, Hedayat Abbastabar, Foad Abd-Allah, Ahmed Abdelalim, Hassan Abolhassani, Lucas Guimaraes Abreu, Michael RM Abrigo, Abdelrahman I Abushouk, Maryam Adabi, Tim Adair, Oladimeji M Adebayo, Isaac Akinkunmi Adedeji, Victor Adekanmbi, Abiodun Moshood Adeoye, Olatunji O Adetokunboh, Shailesh M Advani, Ashkan Afshin, et al.

Journal article  |  2020  |  The Lancet

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

Reflection on modern methods: 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..

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..