Timothy Adair

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

Tim Adair, Alan D Lopez

Journal article  |  2021  |  Int J Epidemiol

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

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..

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

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..

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

BACKGROUND: In Tanzania only an estimated one-quarter of births are registered and certified. Birth registration uses a centralize..

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  |  J Am Coll Cardiol

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