More striking than the demographic and morbidity trends, Howe and Strauss say, is the change in attitude.
The target projections themselves were generated from a retrospective consideration of the relevant morbidity trends (from 1989/92 to 2005) at national level [18].
More generally, Big Data can reveal changing mortality and morbidity trends and patterns that could lead to preventive measures being taken rather than more costly curative ones.
The stressful environment in which child and mother live explains the major underlying and basic causes of deteriorating mortality and morbidity trends, as well as reasons for low access to basic social needs.
The national malaria morbidity trends of 2006 showed no increase in malaria cases reported by the health system throughout the crisis.
These broad mortality and morbidity trends suggest that India represents a major contrast in the process of epidemiological transition particularly in light of conclusions based on studies of developed nations.
Population-based linked health administrative data provide a cost-effective means to examine long-term morbidity trends expressed in the number of hospital admissions and length of stay for specific disease classifications.
This is a programme providing information on national morbidity trends and primary care activity, and the surgeries involved are considered to be reasonably representative of the Scottish population as a whole [ 11].
Our aim was to describe and contrast severe morbidity trends and determinants among HIV-infected individuals followed in two geographically contrasting settings (France and Brazil) with universal access to treatment and care.
In the absence of a nationwide system that routinely records malaria morbidity, trends are estimated by collecting data from a few selected public health facilities or sentinel sites located in, or adjacent to, urban areas such as the hospitals in Libreville, Port-Gentil, Lambaréné, and Franceville [ 9].
There was a significant reduction in surgical resection with increasing age at diagnosis (trend p<0.01), but not in relation to co-morbidity (trend p=0.21), once other variables were adjusted for.
