Tim Adair

Dados Biográficos

ID1780177
NOMETim Adair
PRENOMESTim
SOBRENOMEAdair
ASSINATURAADAIR T
AFILIAÇÕESThe University of Melbourne
ORCID0000-0002-1562-4452
VERIFICADOSim
TOTAL DE OBRAS30
TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES3
TOTAL COMO AUTOR30
TOTAL COMO EDITOR0
PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO2007
ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO2026
ÍNDICE H1

  • WHO launches global network of institutes to strengthen capacity for health inequality monitoring

    Open AccessA K Kavitha, Tim Adair et al.ARTICLEInternational Journal for Equity…2026

    This article introduces the global WHO-managed Health Inequality Monitoring Network, which is dedicated to strengthening and expanding health inequality monitoring practices at global, regional and country levels. Launched in 2025, the Health Inequality Monitoring Network consists of 12 inaugural institutional members, represented by over 140 affiliated individuals spanning all world regions. The Network aims to: strengthen capacities for health …

  • Estimating and projecting the population living with dementia at the local area scale in Australia

    Open AccessJ Temple, Irina Grossman et al.ARTICLEJournal of Population Research2025

    As Australia’s population ages, the number of people living with dementia will grow considerably. Understanding local changes in the number of people living with dementia will facilitate suitable planning, costing, and service delivery for health and aged care services. To inform this task, this study presents estimates and projections from 2021 to 2036 of Australians living with dementia at the state and territory level, and at the finer regiona…

  • Global age-sex-specific mortality, life expectancy, and population estimates in 204 countries and territories and 811 subnational locations, 1950–2021, and the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic

    Open AccessAustin E Schumacher, Hmwe Hmwe Kyu et al.ARTICLEThe Lancet2024

    BACKGROUND: Estimates of demographic metrics are crucial to assess levels and trends of population health outcomes. The profound impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on populations worldwide has underscored the need for timely estimates to understand this unprecedented event within the context of long-term population health trends. The Global Burden of Diseases, Injuries, and Risk Factors Study (GBD) 2021 provides new demographic estimates for 204 cou…

  • Differentials, barriers and enablers of death registration in Nepal

    Open AccessSurender Prasad Pandey, Hafizur Rahman Chowdhury et al.ARTICLEJournal of Population Research2024

    Death registration in Nepal is incomplete, which limits its utility as a routine source of mortality data to inform policy development. This study uses data from the Civil Registration and Vital Statistics (CRVS) Survey 2015/16 in Nepal conducted among households and CRVS service providers (local registrars) to assess the likelihood of death registration, using logistic regression with covariates of socio-economic, demographic and geographic char…

  • Estimating causes of community death of adults in Myanmar from a nationwide population sample

    Open AccessKhin Sandar Bo, Sonja Firth et al.ARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2023

    In Myanmar 84% of deaths occur in the community, of which half are unregistered and none have a reliable cause of death (COD) recorded. Since 2018, Myanmar has introduced improved registration practices and verbal autopsy (VA) to assess whether such methods can produce policy relevant information on community COD. Community health midwives and public health supervisors grade II collected VAs on over 80,000 deaths which occurred between January 20…

  • A global and regional assessment of the timing of birth registration using DHS and Mics survey data

    Open AccessTim Adair, Hang LiARTICLEJournal of Population Research2023Citada por: 1Referências: 2

    Registration of birth within the first year of life is important to ensure children receive its full benefits and that fertility statistics derived from these data are informative for policy. This study provides an up-to-date global and regional assessment of the timing of birth registration by using all available birth registration data of children aged less than five years reported in Demographic and Health Surveys and Multiple Indicator Cluste…

  • Improving the quality of external cause of death data in Brazil

    Open AccessAdauto Martins Soares Filho, Raquel Barbosa De Lima et al.ARTICLECadernos de Saude Publica2023Referências: 24

    Garbage codes, such as external causes with no specific information, indicate poor quality cause of death data. Investigation of garbage codes via an effective instrument is necessary to convert them into useful data for public health. This study analyzed the performance and suitability of the new investigation of deaths from external causes (IDEC) form to improve the quality of external cause of death data in Brazil. The performance of the IDEC …

  • Assessing the Diagnostic Accuracy of Physicians for Home Death Certification in Shanghai

    Open AccessLei Chen, Tian Xia et al.ARTICLEFrontiers in Public Health2022

    Approximately 30% of deaths in Shanghai either occur at home or are not medically attended. The recorded cause of death (COD) in these cases may not be reliable. We applied the Smart Verbal Autopsy (VA) tool to assign the COD for a representative sample of home deaths certified by 16 community health centers (CHCs) from three districts in Shanghai, from December 2017 to June 2018. The results were compared with diagnoses from routine practice to …

  • Mortality surveillance in Brazil

    Open AccessAdauto Martins Soares Filho, Edilene Coelho Duarte et al.ARTICLECiência & Saúde Coletiva2022

    This article aims to analyze the association between characteristics of death - type of certifier and place of death - and the odds of an external cause death being certified as unspecified in Brazil. Cross-sectional study of deaths due to external causes from the Mortality Information System, 2017. Unspecified external cause (UEC) is the outcome variable in the models. Type of certifier physician, place of death and the interaction of these vari…

  • Estimation of national and subnational all-cause mortality indicators in Nepal, 2017

    Open AccessSurender Prasad Pandey, Tim AdairARTICLEBMC Public Health2022

    This is the first use of CRVS system data in Nepal to estimate national and subnational mortality levels and differentials. The national results are plausible when compared with Global Burden of Disease and United Nations World Population Prospects estimates. Understanding of the reasons for inequalities in mortality in Nepal should focus on improving cause of death data and further strengthening CRVS data

  • Assessment of the national and subnational completeness of death registration in Nepal

    Open AccessSurender Prasad Pandey, Tim AdairARTICLEBMC Public Health2022

    Improvement in the utility of the Nepalese death registration system for mortality statistics is dependent on continued roll-out of the online death registration system (which reports age at death and deaths by year of occurrence) throughout the country, focusing on areas with low registration, building a strong coordination mechanism among CRVS stakeholders and implementing public awareness programs about death registration

  • Are there sex differences in completeness of death registration and quality of cause of death statistics? Results from a global analysis

    Open AccessTim Adair, L Marambat et al.ARTICLEBMJ Global Health2021

    Although in most countries analysed there was no clear bias against females in death registration, there was clear evidence in a few countries of systematic undercounting of female deaths which substantially reduces the utility of mortality data. In countries with cause of death data, it was only of marginally poorer quality for females than males

  • Monitoring progress with national and subnational health goals by integrating verbal autopsy and medically certified cause of death data

    Open AccessTim Adair, Sonja Firth et al.ARTICLEBMJ Global Health2021

    INTRODUCTION: The measurement of progress towards many Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) and other health goals requires accurate and timely all-cause and cause of death (COD) data. However, existing guidance to countries to calculate these indicators is inadequate for populations with incomplete death registration and poor-quality COD data. We introduce a replicable method to estimate national and subnational cause-specific mortality rates (an…

  • Who dies where? Estimating the percentage of deaths that occur at home

    Open AccessTim AdairARTICLEBMJ Global Health2021

    INTRODUCTION: The majority of low-income and middle-income countries (LMICs) have incomplete death registration systems and so the proportion of deaths that occur at home (ie, home death percentage) is generally unknown. However, home death percentage is important to estimate population-level causes of death from integration of data of deaths at home (verbal autopsies) and in hospitals (medical certification), and to monitor completeness of death…

  • Have inequalities in completeness of death registration between states in India narrowed during two decades of civil registration system strengthening

    Open AccessJayanta Kumar Basu, Tim AdairARTICLEInternational Journal for Equity…2021

    The increase in completeness of death registration in India is a substantial achievement and increases the potential of the death registration system as a routine source of mortality data. Although narrowing of inequalities in completeness demonstrates that the benefits of higher levels of death registration have spread to relatively poorer states of India in recent years, the continued low completeness in some states and for females are concerni…

  • Routine mortality surveillance to identify the cause of death pattern for out-of-hospital adult (aged 12+ years) deaths in Bangladesh

    Open AccessMd Toufiq Hassan Shawon, Shah Ali Akbar Ashrafi et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2021

    Routine VA collection using automated methods is feasible, can produce plausible results and provides critical information on community COD in Bangladesh. Routine VA and VIPER have potential application to countries with weak death registration systems

  • Global age-sex-specific fertility, mortality, healthy life expectancy (Hale), and population estimates in 204 countries and territories, 1950–2019

    Open AccessHaidong Wang, Kaja Abbas et al.ARTICLEThe Lancet2020

    BACKGROUND: Accurate and up-to-date assessment of demographic metrics is crucial for understanding a wide range of social, economic, and public health issues that affect populations worldwide. The Global Burden of Diseases, Injuries, and Risk Factors Study (GBD) 2019 produced updated and comprehensive demographic assessments of the key indicators of fertility, mortality, migration, and population for 204 countries and territories and selected sub…

  • Global Burden of Cardiovascular Diseases and Risk Factors, 1990–2019

    Open AccessGregory A Roth, George A Mensah et al.ARTICLEJournal of the American College…2020

    Cardiovascular diseases (CVDs), principally ischemic heart disease (IHD) and stroke, are the leading cause of global mortality and a major contributor to disability. This paper reviews the magnitude of total CVD burden, including 13 underlying causes of cardiovascular death and 9 related risk factors, using estimates from the Global Burden of Disease (GBD) Study 2019. GBD, an ongoing multinational collaboration to provide comparable and consisten…

  • Mortality surveillance and verbal autopsy strategies

    Open AccessJohn D Hart, Viola Kwa et al.ARTICLEBMJ Global Health2020

    Full notification of deaths and compilation of good quality cause of death data are core, sequential and essential components of a functional civil registration and vital statistics (CRVS) system. In collaboration with the Government of Papua New Guinea (PNG), trial mortality surveillance activities were established at sites in Alotau District in Milne Bay Province, Tambul-Nebilyer District in Western Highlands Province and Talasea District in We…

  • Decentralization of birth registration to Local Government in Tanzania

    Open AccessChristopher Sanga, Gregory Kabadi et al.ARTICLEGlobal Health Action2020

    BACKGROUND: In Tanzania only an estimated one-quarter of births are registered and certified. Birth registration uses a centralized system with geographic and cost barriers for families. A pilot decentralized birth registration system has been trialled in 11 of 26 regions, substantially increasing registration points, and enabling notification, registration and certification to occur in one step. OBJECTIVE: This study compares completeness of bir…

  • Estimating the pattern of causes of death in Papua New Guinea

    Open AccessUrarang Kitur, Tim Adair et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2019

    Infectious, maternal, neonatal and nutritional causes continue to be an important COD in PNG, and are likely to be higher than what is estimated by the GBD. Nonetheless, there is evidence of the emergence of NCDs in provinces with higher socioeconomic status. The introduction of routine VA for non-facility deaths should improve COD data quality to support health policy and planning to control both infectious and NCDs

  • Saving lives through certifying deaths

    Open AccessJanet Miki, Rasika Rampatige et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2018

    This study demonstrates how the two interventions introduced by the Ministry of Health in Perú improved the correctness of death certificates. The study also provides evidence on necessary changes to the training program to address the poor certification practices that have remained after implementation of the online system

  • The Impact of the Stopping Rule on Sex Ratio of Last Births in Vietnam

    Open AccessBang Nguyen Pham, Tim Adair et al.ARTICLEJournal of Biosocial Science2012

    This study examines the hypothesis that the stopping rule – a traditional postnatal sex selection method where couples decide to cease childbearing once they bear a son – plays a role in high sex ratio of last births (SRLB). The study develops a theoretical framework to demonstrate the operation of the stopping rule in a context of son preference. This framework was used to demonstrate the impact of the stopping rule on the SRLB in Vietnam, using…

  • Global and regional mortality from 235 causes of death for 20 age groups in 1990 and 2010

    Open AccessR Lozano, Mohsen Naghavi et al.ARTICLEThe Lancet2012

  • Maternal Socioeconomic and Demographic Factors Associated With the Sex Ratio at Birth in Vietnam

    Open AccessBang Nguyen Pham, Tim Adair et al.ARTICLEJournal of Biosocial Science2010

    In recent years Vietnam has experienced a high sex ratio at birth (SRB) amidst rapid socioeconomic and demographic changes. However, little is known about the differentials in SRB between maternal socioeconomic and demographic groups. The paper uses data from the annual Population Change Survey (PCS) in 2006 to examine the relationship of the sex ratio of the most recent birth with maternal socioeconomic and demographic characteristics and the nu…