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Jan Hendrik Richardus

Researcher at Erasmus University Medical Center

Publications -  9
Citations -  2937

Jan Hendrik Richardus is an academic researcher from Erasmus University Medical Center. The author has contributed to research in topics: Years of potential life lost & Life expectancy. The author has an hindex of 8, co-authored 9 publications receiving 2556 citations. Previous affiliations of Jan Hendrik Richardus include Erasmus University Rotterdam.

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Global, regional, and national disability-adjusted life years (DALYs) for 306 diseases and injuries and healthy life expectancy (HALE) for 188 countries, 1990-2013 : quantifying the epidemiological transition

Christopher J L Murray, +611 more
- 28 Nov 2015 - 
TL;DR: Patterns of the epidemiological transition with a composite indicator of sociodemographic status, which was constructed from income per person, average years of schooling after age 15 years, and the total fertility rate and mean age of the population, were quantified.
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Systematic Review of Studies on Compliance with Hand Hygiene Guidelines in Hospital Care

TL;DR: Noncompliance with hand hygiene guidelines is a universal problem, which calls for standardized measures for research and monitoring andoretical models from the behavioral sciences should be used internationally and should be adapted to better explain the complexities of hand hygiene.
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Avian influenza risk perception, Europe and Asia.

TL;DR: Risk perceptions of avian influenza to be at an intermediate level and beliefs of efficacy to be slightly lower and risk perceptions were higher in Asia than Europe; efficacy beliefs were lower in Europe than Asia.

African Programme for Onchocerciasis Control 1995-2015: model-estimated health impact and cost - Supplement

TL;DR: In this article, the authors estimate the health impact of APOC and the associated costs from a program perspective up to 2010 and provide expected trends up to 2015, using the micro-simulation model ONCHOSIM, and estimated disability-adjusted life years (DALYs) lost due to onchocerciasis.

Global, regional, and national disability-adjusted life years (DALYs) for 306 diseases and injuries and healthy life expectancy (HALE) for 188 countries, 1990–2013: Quantifying the epidemiological transition

Christopher J L Murray, +611 more
TL;DR: The Global Burden of Disease Study 2013 (GBD 2013) aims to bring together all available epidemiological data using a coherent measurement framework, standardised estimation methods, and transparent data sources to enable comparisons of health loss over time and across causes, age-sex groups, and countries as discussed by the authors.