Diego E Zavala
Biographic Data
| ID | 8977375 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Diego E Zavala |
| GIVEN NAMES | Diego E |
| FAMILY NAME | Zavala |
| SIGNATURE | ZAVALA D E |
| AFFILIATIONS | Ponce Health Sciences University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 5 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Building capacity for cancer surveillance and public health research: The Cancer Task Force Project for Cooperation in the Caribbean and Aging Research
International audience
Global, regional, and national life expectancy, all-cause mortality, and cause-specific mortality for 249 causes of death, 1980–2015: A systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2015
BACKGROUND: Improving survival and extending the longevity of life for all populations requires timely, robust evidence on local mortality levels and trends. The Global Burden of Disease 2015 Study (GBD 2015) provides a comprehensive assessment of all-cause and cause-specific mortality for 249 causes in 195 countries and territories from 1980 to 2015. These results informed an in-depth investigation of observed and expected mortality patterns bas…
Implementing a hospital based injury surveillance system in Zambia: A preliminary report
The University Teaching Hospital in Lusaka, Zambia, is the nation's premier tertiary referral hospital and a teaching centre for the University of Zambia as well as a research centre of excellence. It was one of the five sites chosen as part of a multinational injury surveillance project conceived to provide preliminary data in response to observations made by public health agencies such as the World Health Organization, and the United States Cen…
Implementing a hospital based injury surveillance system in Africa: Lessons learned
A multinational injury surveillance pilot project was carried out in five African countries in the first half of 2007 (Democratic Republic of the Congo, Kenya, Nigeria, Uganda and Zambia). Hospitals were selected in each country and a uniform methodology was applied in all sites, including an injury surveillance questionnaire designed by a joint programme of the Pan American Health Organization and the United States Centres for Disease Control an…
Implementing a hospital based injury surveillance system: A case study in Nigeria
A pilot study of violent injury surveillance was implemented in two hospitals in Kano, Nigeria, in two phases: a formative evaluation including training and arranging the collection of hospital information, followed by a 6 month prospective data collection. Road traffic injuries constituted about 80 per cent of the cases, gunshot injuries were the commonest in victims of interpersonal violence (IPV). The causes and context of IPV, the relationshi…
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Implementing a hospital based injury surveillance system in Zambia: A preliminary report
The University Teaching Hospital in Lusaka, Zambia, is the nation's premier tertiary referral hospital and a teaching centre for the University of Zambia as well as a research centre of excellence. It was one of the five sites chosen as part of a multinational injury surveillance project conceived to provide preliminary data in response to observations made by public health agencies such as the World Health Organization, and the United States Cen…
Implementing a hospital based injury surveillance system in Africa: Lessons learned
A multinational injury surveillance pilot project was carried out in five African countries in the first half of 2007 (Democratic Republic of the Congo, Kenya, Nigeria, Uganda and Zambia). Hospitals were selected in each country and a uniform methodology was applied in all sites, including an injury surveillance questionnaire designed by a joint programme of the Pan American Health Organization and the United States Centres for Disease Control an…
Implementing a hospital based injury surveillance system: A case study in Nigeria
A pilot study of violent injury surveillance was implemented in two hospitals in Kano, Nigeria, in two phases: a formative evaluation including training and arranging the collection of hospital information, followed by a 6 month prospective data collection. Road traffic injuries constituted about 80 per cent of the cases, gunshot injuries were the commonest in victims of interpersonal violence (IPV). The causes and context of IPV, the relationshi…
Global, regional, and national life expectancy, all-cause mortality, and cause-specific mortality for 249 causes of death, 1980–2015: A systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2015
BACKGROUND: Improving survival and extending the longevity of life for all populations requires timely, robust evidence on local mortality levels and trends. The Global Burden of Disease 2015 Study (GBD 2015) provides a comprehensive assessment of all-cause and cause-specific mortality for 249 causes in 195 countries and territories from 1980 to 2015. These results informed an in-depth investigation of observed and expected mortality patterns bas…
Building capacity for cancer surveillance and public health research: The Cancer Task Force Project for Cooperation in the Caribbean and Aging Research
International audience
Medicine (5 works) · Environmental health (4 works) · Geography (3 works) · Injury Epidemiology and Prevention (3 works) · Nursing (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Public health (3 works) · Intimate Partner and Family Violence (2 works) · Medical emergency (2 works) · Multinational corporation (2 works)