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ReviewInternational journal of health geographics2007

The shape of the global causes of death.

Anna Barford, Danny Dorling

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Review in International journal of health geographics, 2007. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
1citing papers in PubMed
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

1 citing paper in PubMed.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Anna BarfordSocial and Spatial Inequalities Group, Department of Geography, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK. Anna.Barford@sheffield.ac.uk
Danny Dorling

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

backgroundWorld maps can provide an instant visual overview of the distribution of diseases and deaths.

resultsThere is a particular geography to each type of death: in some places many thousands of deaths are caused by a particular condition, whilst other equally populous areas have few to no deaths from the same cause.

conclusionPhysicians and other health professionals often specialise in the specifics of causes, symptoms and effects. For some practitioners gaining a worldview of disease burden complements smaller scale medical knowledge of where and how people are affected by each condition. Maps can make health related information much more accessible to planners and the general public than can tables, text, or even graphs. Ten cartograms based on World Health Organisation Burden of Disease data are introduced here; alongside seven based on data from other sources. The Burden of Disease cartograms are the latest in a much larger collection of social, economic and health world maps.

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Cause of DeathCost of IllnessGlobal HealthAdultAgedAge DistributionChildData CollectionFemaleGeographyHistory, 20th CenturyHumansPregnancyRisk FactorsSocioeconomic Factors

Identifiers

PMID17956608
PMCPMC2164951

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