OpenLB
Open Library of Bioscience

Kiavash Hushmandi, Parviz Shahmirzalou, Yousef Ramazani, Rasoul Raesi, Mahdieh Ardaneh, Hedyeh Askarpour, Salman Daneshi

Popul Health Metr. Sep 15, 2025.23(1):52 Electronic doi: 10.1186/s12963-025-00416-7

PMID: 40954457

INTRODUCTION: Suicide is a significant global health issue, responsible for 759,028 deaths worldwide in 2019. In Iran, suicide rates have fluctuated significantly from 1980 to 2020, influenced by social, economic, and psychological factors. Adolescents and young adults, in particular, face high suic...

Audrey M Kalindi, Sumonkanti Das

Popul Health Metr. Aug 28, 2025.23(1):51 Electronic doi: 10.1186/s12963-025-00413-w

PMID: 40877857

BACKGROUND: High rates of child morbidity and developmental challenges among children under five remain critical challenges in sub-Saharan Africa. Despite Zambia's progress in reducing under-five morbidity, the rates remain high, with provincial-level disparities. These disparities are likely to be ...

Justin Guang Jie Lee, Qin Xiang Ng, Nan Luo, Gerald Choon Huat Koh, Ling Jie Cheng

Popul Health Metr. Aug 25, 2025.23(1):49 Electronic doi: 10.1186/s12963-025-00402-z

PMID: 40855315

BACKGROUND: Health activation is an individual's knowledge, skills, and confidence in managing personal health and healthcare. The Consumer Health Activation Index (CHAI) is a freely available, 10-item measure originally developed in the United States. This study aimed to validate CHAI among communi...

Siying Liu, Cihang Lu, Bingxin You, Qiqiang Guo, Tingting Liu, Yongze Li

Popul Health Metr. Aug 25, 2025.23(1):50 Electronic doi: 10.1186/s12963-025-00414-9

PMID: 40855303

INTRODUCTION: Social isolation is increasingly recognized as a significant public health concern associated with mortality risk. However, whether the impact of social isolation on mortality differs between individuals with and without metabolic syndrome (MetS) remains unclear. This study aimed to in...

Guanghui Shen, Xudong Yang, Jiahui Huang, Juan Fang, Shaochang Wu, Jiayi Tang, Liujun Wu, Wang Wei, Yawen Zhen, Li Chen

Popul Health Metr. Aug 13, 2025.23(1):47 Electronic doi: 10.1186/s12963-025-00411-y

PMID: 40804630

In China, older migrant workers represent an especially vulnerable group, facing challenges to their quality of life as they grow older and move away from their hometowns. This study aimed to investigate the relationship between social integration, subjective well-being, and subjective fairness over...

Somayeh Ghiasi Hafezi, Atena Ghasemabadi, Negar Soleimani, Maryam Allahyari, Mina Moradi, Amin Mansoori, Rana Kolahi Ahari, Mark Ghamsary, Gordon Ferns, Habibollah Esmaily, Majid Ghayour-Mobarhan

Popul Health Metr. Aug 19, 2025.23(1):48 Electronic doi: 10.1186/s12963-025-00410-z

PMID: 40830804

INTRODUCTION: Dyslipidemia as a modifiable risk factor for chronic non-communicable diseases has become a worldwide concern. We aim to explore different anthropometric measures as predictors of dyslipidemia using various machine learning methods.
METHOD: From the baseline of the Mashhad Stroke an...

Mathieu J P Poirier, Till Bärnighausen, Guy Harling, Ali Sié, Karen A Grépin

Popul Health Metr. 02 01, 2021.19(1):4 Electronic doi: 10.1186/s12963-021-00246-3

PMID: 33526039

BACKGROUND: Smartphones have rapidly become an important marker of wealth in low- and middle-income countries, but international household surveys do not regularly gather data on smartphone ownership and these data are rarely used to calculate wealth indices.
METHODS: We developed a cross-section...

Elizabet Ukolova

Popul Health Metr. Aug 07, 2025.23(1):46 Electronic doi: 10.1186/s12963-025-00394-w

PMID: 40775717

BACKGROUND: In the United States, over half of all deaths are attributed to five leading underlying causes of death (at the ICD-3 digit level). However, these underlying causes represent only 25% of the total medical information documented on death certificates. While previous studies have investiga...

Darcy J Coulter, Lindsay A Pearce, Matthew Legge, Jesse T Young, David B Preen, Ed Heffernan, Jocelyn Jones, Stuart A Kinner

Popul Health Metr. Aug 06, 2025.23(1):45 Electronic doi: 10.1186/s12963-025-00408-7

PMID: 40770341

BACKGROUND: The prevalence of mental illness, substance use disorders, and their dual diagnosis is disproportionately high among people in prisons compared to the community. Accurate prevalence estimates are required to inform resourcing of prison health services and reduce the risk of harm to peopl...

Sarah Habershon, Kolja Nenoff, Guido Kraemer, Lennart Schüler, Heinrich Zozmann, Justin M Calabrese, Sabine Attinger, Miguel D Mahecha

Popul Health Metr. Aug 05, 2025.23(1):44 Electronic doi: 10.1186/s12963-025-00405-w

PMID: 40764985

The COVID-19 pandemic affected Europe unevenly, with surges in infections and deaths fluctuating across different regions and time periods. Hyper-localised hotspots and staggered timelines created intense, asynchronous waves of infections and deaths that distort country-level and cumulative data, ob...