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Oct 26, 2021 · “Premature mortality” is a highly popular metric of population health, widely used, e.g. for the purpose of international and country-level performance assessments interested in capturing some dimension of an “unnecessary” or “avoidable” burden of mortality.
Feb 18, 2024 · Premature mortality is an indicator of unmet life expectancy and reflects a country’s health achievements considering that many of the causes of premature mortality are preventable. Comprehensive, long-term population-based projections of premature mortality are essential to improve clinical practice and our understanding of health systems ...
This chapter reviews the burdenglobal burden of cancer and trends of premature mortalitypremature mortality (i.e. deaths at ages 30–69 years) from noncommunicable diseases (NCDs)noncommunicable diseases (NCDs), with a focus on cancer, based on the WHO Global Health Estimates that are available nationally by cause and year of death [1].
Jul 20, 2019 · By accounting for premature avertable mortality while avoiding arbitrary age cutoffs, premature avertable mortality from NCDs is a robust, comprehensive, and actionable indicator for quantifying and monitoring global and national progress towards NCD prevention and control.
Jul 18, 2023 · Our findings demonstrate the public health significance of various diseases and injuries in premature deaths. In 2018, we estimated Malaysia’s premature death rate to be 107.2 YLL per 1000 population.
Sep 20, 2021 · Potentially avoidable premature deaths: These are deaths of people under 75 years of age that should not occur if all levels of care by health systems function properly (primary, secondary, tertiary prevention, and health care at all levels). The group of avoidable deaths considers two subgroups: (i) the so-called potentially preventable causes ...
May 3, 2023 · This review will include the studies that reported premature CVD mortality based on standard premature mortality indicators, including years of life lost (YLL), age standardized mortality rate (ASMR) or standardised mortality ratio (SMR).
