Timothy Adair

Who dies where? Estimating the percentage of deaths that occur at home.

Tim Adair

Journal article  |  2021  |  BMJ Glob Health

INTRODUCTION: The majority of low-income and middle-income countries (LMICs) have incomplete death registration systems and so the..

Have inequalities in completeness of death registration between states in India narrowed during two decades of civil registration system strengthening?

Jayanta Kumar Basu, Tim Adair

Journal article  |  2021  |  INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL FOR EQUITY IN HEALTH

BACKGROUND: In India the number of registered deaths increased substantially in recent years, improving the potential of the civil..

How reliable are self-reported estimates of birth registration completeness? Comparison with vital statistics systems

Tim Adair, Alan D Lopez

Journal article  |  2021  |  PLOS ONE

BACKGROUND: The widely-used estimates of completeness of birth registration collected by Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS) and ..

Generating age-specific mortality statistics from incomplete death registration data: two applications of the empirical completeness method

Tim Adair, Alan D Lopez

Journal article  |  2021  |  POPULATION HEALTH METRICS

BACKGROUND: The study aims to assess two approaches that apply the empirical completeness method to generate age-specific mortalit..

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

Tim Adair, Alan D Lopez

Journal article  |  2021  |  INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF EPIDEMIOLOGY

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

Diversity of epidemiological transition in the Pacific: Findings from the application of verbal autopsy in Papua New Guinea and the Solomon Islands

John D Hart, Pkb Mahesh, Viola Kwa, Matthew Reeve, Hafizur Rahman Chowdhury, Gregory Jilini, Rooney Jagilly, Baakai Kamoriki, Rodley Ruskin, Paison Dakulala, Paulus Ripa, Dale Frank, Theresa Lei, Tim Adair, Deirdre McLaughlin, Ian D Riley, Alan D Lopez

Journal article  |  2021  |  LANCET REGIONAL HEALTH-WESTERN PACIFIC

Background: Cause of death data are essential for rational health planning yet are not routinely available in Papua New Guinea (PN..

Estimating causes of out-of-hospital deaths in China: application of SmartVA methods

Jinlei Qi, Tim Adair, Hafizur R Chowdhury, Hang Li, Deirdre McLaughlin, Yunning Liu, Jiangmei Liu, Xinying Zeng, Jinling You, Sonja Firth, Renee Sorchik, Peng Yin, Lijun Wang, Maigeng Zhou, Alan D Lopez

Journal article  |  2021  |  POPULATION HEALTH METRICS

BACKGROUND: Most deaths in China occur at home, making it difficult to collect reliable cause of death (CoD) information. Verbal a..

How advanced is the epidemiological transition in Papua New Guinea? New evidence from verbal autopsy.

John D Hart, Viola Kwa, Paison Dakulala, Paulus Ripa, Dale Frank, Victor Golpak, Timothy Adair, Deirdre Mclaughlin, Ian D Riley, Alan D Lopez

Journal article  |  2021  |  Int J Epidemiol

BACKGROUND: Reliable cause of death (COD) data are not available for the majority of deaths in Papua New Guinea (PNG), despite the..

Monitoring progress with national and subnational health goals by integrating verbal autopsy and medically certified cause of death data.

Tim Adair, Sonja Firth, Tint Pa Pa Phyo, Khin Sandar Bo, Alan D Lopez

Journal article  |  2021  |  BMJ Glob Health

INTRODUCTION: The measurement of progress towards many Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) and other health goals requires accurat..

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..