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ArticleAmerican journal of public health2015

Indigenous mortality (revealed): the invisible illuminated.

Jane Freemantle, Ian Ring, Teshia G Arambula Solomon, Francine C Gachupin, Janet Smylie, Tessa Louise Cutler, John A Waldon

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Article in American journal of public health, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 18 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
18citing papers in PubMed, 2 pooled it
4.8field-weighted citation impact, top 5% of its field
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

18 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 69 citations in OpenAlex.

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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

7 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Jane FreemantleJane Freemantle and Tessa Louise Cutler are with the Centre for Health Equity, University of Melbourne, Carlton, Victoria, Australia. Ian Ring is with the Australian Health Services Research Institute, University of Wollongong, Wollongong, Australia. Teshia G. Arambula Solomon and Francine C. Gachupin are with the Native American Research and Training Center, Department of Family and Community Medicine, College of Medicine, University of Arizona, Tucson. Janet Smylie is with the Centre for Research on Inner City Health, Keenan Research Centre in the Li Ka Shing Knowledge Institute, Saint Michael's Hospital and Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto, ON, Canada. John A. Waldon is with the Muru Marri Indigenous Health Unit, School of Public Health & Community Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of New South Wales, Australia.
Ian Ring
Teshia G Arambula Solomon
Francine C Gachupin
Janet Smylie
Tessa Louise Cutler
John A Waldon
University of Wollongong · AU

Funding

Canadian Institutes of Health Research
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Inaccuracies in the identification of Indigenous status and the collection of and access to vital statistics data impede the strategic implementation of evidence-based public health initiatives to reduce avoidable deaths. The impact of colonization and subsequent government initiatives has been commonly observed among the Indigenous peoples of Australia, Canada, New Zealand, and the United States. The quality of Indigenous data that informs mortality statistics are similarly connected to these distal processes, which began with colonization. We discuss the methodological and technical challenges in measuring mortality for Indigenous populations within a historical and political context, and identify strategies for the accurate ascertainment and inclusion of Indigenous people in mortality statistics.

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AustraliaCanadaData CollectionHumansIndians, North AmericanMortalityNew ZealandPoliticsUnited StatesVital Statistics

Identifiers

PMID25211754
PMCPMC4358192
OpenAlexW2127897361

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