A5012257691- Health disparities and outcomes
- Global Health Care Issues
- Employment and Welfare Studies
- Health Systems, Economic Evaluations, Quality of Life
- Chronic Disease Management Strategies
- Global Public Health Policies and Epidemiology
- COVID-19 and healthcare impacts
- Climate Change and Health Impacts
- Long-Term Effects of COVID-19
- Frailty in Older Adults
- Insurance, Mortality, Demography, Risk Management
- Musculoskeletal pain and rehabilitation
- Global Maternal and Child Health
- Health Promotion and Cardiovascular Prevention
- Global Cancer Incidence and Screening
- Trauma and Emergency Care Studies
- Healthcare Systems and Public Health
- COVID-19 Clinical Research Studies
- Healthcare Systems and Challenges
- Substance Abuse Treatment and Outcomes
- Fibromyalgia and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Research
- Healthcare Systems and Reforms
- Healthcare Policy and Management
- Injury Epidemiology and Prevention
- Multiple and Secondary Primary Cancers
Public Health Scotland
2017-2025
University of Glasgow
2022-2025
Sciensano (Belgium)
2023
Flemish Government
2023
Statistics Belgium
2023
European Social Observatory
2023
Action Network
2022
National Health Service Scotland
2012-2018
Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation
2018
University of Washington
2018
Since May 1, 2018, every alcoholic drink sold in Scotland has had minimum unit pricing (MUP) of £0·50 per unit. Previous studies have indicated that the introduction this policy reduced alcohol sales by 3%. We aimed to assess whether led reductions alcohol-attributable deaths and hospitalisations.Study outcomes, wholly attributable consumption, were defined using routinely collected data on hospitalisations. Controlled interrupted time series regression was used legislation's impact...
Abstract Background Disability-Adjusted Life Years (DALYs) are an established method for quantifying population health needs and guiding prioritisation decisions. Global Burden of Disease (GBD) estimates aim to ensure comparability between countries over time by using age-standardised rates (ASR) account differences in the age structure different populations. Different standard populations used this purpose but it is not widely appreciated that choice may affect only resulting also rankings...
Grant M. A. Wyper1*Ricardo Assunção2Edoardo Colzani3Ian Grant4Juanita Haagsma5Giske Lagerweij6Elena Von der Lippe7Scott McDonald6Sara Pires8Michael Porst7Niko Speybroeck9Brecht Devleesschauwer10,11
Disability-adjusted life years (DALYs) combine the impact of morbidity and mortality can enable comprehensive, comparable, assessments direct indirect health harms due to COVID-19. Our aim was estimate DALYs directly COVID-19 in Scotland, during 2020; contextualise its population relative other causes disease injury.
Background Studies on avoidable mortality in adults with intellectual disabilities are limited, as studies causes of death. Objectives We aimed to quantify rates, and causes, identify factors (i.e., age, sex, Scottish Index Multiple Deprivation (SIMD)) related disabilities. Design A record linkage national cohort study. Setting or without co-occurring autism, aged 25+ years a randomly selected comparison group autism identified from Scotland’s Census, 2011. Census records were linked the...
Gains in life expectancy have faltered several high-income countries recent years. Scotland has consistently had a lower than many other over the past 70 We aim to compare trends those seen internationally and assess timing importance of any changes mortality for Scotland.Austria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, England Wales, Estonia, France, Germany, Hungary, Iceland, Israel, Japan, Korea, Latvia, Lithuania, Netherlands, Northern Ireland, Poland, Scotland, Slovakia, Spain, Sweden,...
Abstract Background Evidence has emerged showing that elderly people and those with pre-existing chronic health conditions may be at higher risk of developing severe consequences from COVID-19. In Europe, this is particular relevance ageing populations living non-communicable diseases, multi-morbidity frailty. Published estimates Years Lived Disability (YLD) the Global Burden Disease (GBD) study help to characterise extent these effects. Our aim was identify countries across Europe have...
Abstract Background Disability-adjusted life years (DALYs) combine the impact of morbidity and mortality, allowing for comprehensive comparisons population. The aim was to estimate DALYs due Covid-19 in Malta (March 2020–21) investigate its relation other causes disease at a population level. Methods Mortality weekly hospital admission data were used calculate DALYs, based on European Burden Disease Network consensus model. infection duration 14 days considered. Sensitivity analyses...
Background Worrying changes in life expectancy trends have been observed recently the UK, largely attributed to austerity policies introduced over last decade. To incorporate quality, rather than just length of, life, our aim was describe healthy (HLE) for relevant period. Methods In absence of available long-term trends, we calculated new estimates HLE Scotland period 1995–2019, using standard methodologies based on mortality and national survey data, stratified by sex socioeconomic...
We present the light curves of 21 gravitational microlensing events from first six years MACHO Project survey that are likely examples lensing by binary systems. These were manually selected a total sample ~350 candidate either detected Alert System or discovered through retrospective analyses database. At least 14 these exhibit strong (caustic) features, and four well fit with large mass ratio (brown dwarf planetary) systems, although fits not necessarily unique. The event rate is roughly...
Information is increasingly digital, creating opportunities to respond pressing issues about human populations in near real time using linked datasets that are large, complex, and diverse. The potential social individual benefits can come from data-intensive science but raise challenges of balancing privacy the public good, building appropriate socio-technical systems support science, determining whether defining a new field inquiry might help move those collective interests activities...
Background Gains in life expectancies have stalled Scotland, as several other countries, since around 2012. The relationship between stalling mortality improvements and socioeconomic inequalities health is unclear. Methods We calculate the difference, percentage change, all-cause, all-age, age-standardised rates (ASMR) 2006 2011 (period 1) 2012 2017 2), for Scotland overall, by sex, Scottish Index of Multiple Deprivation (SIMD) quintile. Linear regression used to summarise SIMD quintile rate...
Abstract Background Summary measures of population health are increasingly used in different public reporting systems for setting priorities care and social service delivery planning. Disability-adjusted life years (DALYs) one the most commonly gap summary field have become key metric quantifying burden disease (BoD). BoD methodology is, however, complex highly data demanding, requiring a substantial capacity to apply, which has led major disparities across researchers nations their...
Health inequalities have been associated with shorter lifespans. We aimed to investigate subnational geographical in all-cause years of life lost (YLLs) and the association between YLLs socioeconomic factors, such as household income, risk poverty, educational attainment, countries within European Economic Area (EEA) before COVID-19 pandemic.
Abstract Introduction The prevalence of excess weight in Scotland is higher than other UK nations and amongst the highest when compared with European Union countries. aim our study was to use historic data identify integrate age-period-cohort (APC) effects into projected estimates Scotland. Methods Interviewer-validated height measurements were obtained for 72,542 adults between 2003 2019 from Scottish Health Survey calculate body mass index (BMI). Relevant socio-demographic also sourced...
This study aimed to estimate the magnitude of geographical variation in dementia rates and suggest explanations for this variation. Small-area studies are scarce, none has adequately investigated relative contribution genetic environmental factors distribution dementia.
Objectives: Burden of Disease frameworks facilitate estimation the health impact diseases to be translated into a single measure, such as Disability-Adjusted-Life-Year (DALY). Methods: DALYs were calculated sum Years Life Lost (YLL) and Lived with Disability (YLD) directly associated COVID-19 in Republic Ireland (RoI) from 01 March 2020, 28 February 2021. expectancy is based on Global (GBD) Study life tables for 2019. Results: There 220,273 confirmed cases total 4,500 deaths direct result...
The World Health Organization declared a pandemic of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome 2 (SARS-CoV-2), on March 11, 2020. standardized approach disability-adjusted life years (DALYs) allows for quantifying the combined impact morbidity and mortality diseases injuries. main objective this study was to estimate direct COVID-19 in France 2020, using DALYs combine population health infection fatalities, symptomatic infections their post-acute...