-
Recent Posts
- Switzerland: COVID-19 situation and vaccine rollout April 14, 2021
- What are the risks of the AstraZeneca vaccine? April 11, 2021
- Global deaths attributable to drugs, alcohol and tobacco February 20, 2021
- A Covid Performance Index for countries January 29, 2021
- Fundamentalist values, culture and religion October 18, 2020
Recent Comments
Archives
- April 2021 (2)
- February 2021 (1)
- January 2021 (1)
- October 2020 (1)
- September 2020 (3)
- August 2020 (6)
- July 2020 (3)
- June 2020 (2)
- May 2020 (4)
- April 2020 (4)
- March 2020 (4)
- October 2019 (1)
- August 2019 (1)
- June 2019 (1)
- May 2019 (2)
- January 2019 (1)
- December 2018 (2)
- November 2018 (1)
- September 2018 (1)
- July 2018 (1)
- June 2018 (1)
- December 2017 (2)
- October 2017 (2)
- September 2017 (1)
- August 2017 (1)
- May 2017 (2)
- February 2017 (1)
- November 2016 (3)
- May 2016 (2)
- November 2015 (1)
- October 2015 (1)
- September 2015 (1)
- August 2015 (2)
- May 2015 (2)
- April 2015 (1)
- March 2015 (2)
- January 2015 (1)
- November 2014 (1)
- October 2014 (1)
- September 2014 (4)
- August 2014 (2)
- July 2014 (1)
- June 2014 (4)
- May 2014 (8)
- January 2014 (5)
Categories
- Global health trends (72)
- Projections (17)
- Publications (5)
- Uncategorized (19)
- World Health Organization (41)
Tags
- atheism
- Australia
- blood pressure
- cancer
- causes of death
- child mortality
- children
- citation indices
- climate change
- comparative risk assessment
- confirmed case rates
- conflict deaths
- coronavirus
- country comparisons
- COVID-19
- culture map
- Dean Jamison
- Disease Control Priorities
- drug overdose
- drug use disorders
- Einstein number
- emancipative values
- Erdos number
- European Values Survey
- gender
- gender inequality
- Global Burden of Disease
- global health estimates
- global health statistics
- global warming
- H-index
- homicide
- hypertension
- IHME
- India
- Inglehart
- irreligion
- Keeling Curve
- life expectancy
- lifetable indicators
- longevity
- malaria
- maternal mortality
- Millenium Development Goals
- Million Death Study
- NCD
- Noncommunicable diseases
- obesity
- opioid overdose deaths
- overweight
- pandemic
- Prabhat Jha
- preventable deaths
- Projections
- religiosity
- road injury
- science denial
- sex
- suicide
- sustainable development goals
- Switzerland
- telomeres
- tobacco smoking
- traditional secular values
- Tropical countries
- Tropics
- underweight
- Universal health coverage
- USA
- values
- violence
- war
- Welzel
- World Health Organization
- World Values Survey
Tag Archives: global health statistics
A Covid Performance Index for countries
An Australian think-tank, the Lowy Institute has produced a Covid Performance Index and used it to examine the impact of geography, political systems, economic development and population size on the Covid-19 outcomes around the world. The COVID Performance Index compiled … Continue reading
Are the Lancet authorship criteria adequate?
In May, the Lancet published a peer-reviewed study claiming to analyse data from nearly 15,000 patients who had received the drug hydroxychloroquine for treatment of Covid-19. The study concluded that patients who received the drug were dying at a higher … Continue reading
WHO and global health statistics
My paper “History of global burden of disease assessment at the World Health Organization” has just been published in Archives of Public Health. It reviews WHO work on Global Burden of Disease over the last 20 years and the challenges … Continue reading
How does population age structure affect overall case fatality ratios for COVID-19?
The first graph shows coronavirus deaths in Italy up to 26 March 2020 by sex and age. The overall case fatality rate for lab confirmed cases is 11.1% and 70% of deaths are male (closer to 80% below age 80, … Continue reading
COVID-19 growth rates by country
Nice new site http://91-divoc.com/pages/covid-visualization/ that plots time trends in cases and deaths, total numbers and rates per million population. The time axis is days since 100+ cases/deaths or days since 1 case/death per million population. I’ve attached screenshots of cases/million … Continue reading
Covid-19 update
worldometers.info now also reports coronavirus cases and deaths as rates per million population. I’ve done some updated plots for confirmed case rates, reported death rates, and apparent case fatality rates (CFR). The latter are calculated simply as reported deaths per … Continue reading
Looking at the COVID-19 statistics on day 3
I live just a couple of kilometres from the border of Switzerland with France, and last Monday evening the border was closed except for frontaliers (who live across the border from work) and those with urgent reasons. We are now … Continue reading
Gun ownership and gun deaths
Given recent events, I took a look at the data relating to gun deaths overall and the extraordinarily high rates of mass shootings in the USA compared to the rest of the world. Despite President Trump blaming video games and … Continue reading
Posted in Global health trends
Tagged global health statistics, gun ownership, homicide, mass shooting, small arms survey, violence
1 Comment
State-level trends and levels of child mortality in India 2000-2015
I’ve been involved for nearly 20 years in the estimation of global, regional and national causes of child death under the age of 5, in collaboration with academic researchers and a number of WHO technical departments (new-estimates-of-the-causes-of-child-death-under-age-5). This collaboration has … Continue reading
WHO and the Global Burden of Disease
As a former WHO staff member, who played a key role in the production and clearance of WHO health statistics over the last 15 years, and a long-time collaborator with the Global Burden of Disease (GBD) enterprise and with the … Continue reading
