Hill, K, Lopez, AD, Shibuya, K, Jha, P
Most developing countries do not have fully effective civil registration systems to provide necessary information about population health. Interim approaches-both innovative strategies for collection...
Statistical modeling and projections of lung cancer mortality in 4 industrialized countries (2005)
Shibuya, K, Inoue, M, Lopez, AD.
The purpose of this work was to model lung cancer mortality as a function of past exposure to tobacco and to forecast age-sex-specific lung cancer mortality rates. A 3-factor age-period-cohort (APC)...
Role of smoking in global and regional cancer epidemiology: current patterns and data needs (2005)
Ezzati, M, Henley, SJ, Lopez, AD, Thun, MJ.
Although smoking is widely recognized as a major cause of cancer, there is little information on how it contributes to the global and regional burden of cancers in combination with other risk factors...
Role of smoking in global and regional cardiovascular mortality (2005)
Ezzati, M, Henley, SJ, Thun, MJ, Lopez, AD.
Background - Smoking is a major cause of cardiovascular disease mortality. There is little information on how it contributes to global and regional cause-specific mortality from cardiovascular...
Regional, disease specific patterns of smoking-attributable mortality in 2000 (2004)
Background: Smoking has been causally associated with increased mortality from several diseases, and has increased considerably in many developing countries in the past few decades. Mortality...