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Use of Statistical and Epidemiological Data towards Better, More Sustainable Health Management

A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Health, Well-Being and Sustainability".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (15 September 2023) | Viewed by 5711

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Prof. Dr. Daniel Diaz

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Centro de Ciencias de la Complejidad, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, México City 04510, Mexico
Interests: epidemiology; global health; public health; statistics; infectious diseases; global burden of disease

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

It is with great pleasure that we invite you to submit a paper to the Special Issue “Use of Statistical and Epidemiological Data towards Better, More Sustainable Health Management” in the journal Sustainability.

Reducing health inequalities and increasing the access to and quality of healthcare requires the development of sustainable health management. To account for this, the use of statistical and epidemiological data represents an invaluable tool for estimating the magnitude of the diseases that cause the greatest burden for healthcare services. Such tools can also be used to identify the population groups which are most affected by such diseases and thus are at higher risk. In this regard, statistical and epidemiological data might be used as a first step toward an understanding of the complex geographical patterns of disease, while unveiling differences in the causes, as mediated by age or sex, and their temporal trends. Therefore, knowing the epidemiological landscape of any disease will serve as a guide to help us prioritize the allocation of resources, define health policies, and develop population-specific control and prevention strategies in geographical settings where diseases cause the highest burden. These tools must aim to develop and improve sustainable health management that reduces the disparities between population groups from low-, middle, and high-income settings. Moreover, achieving sustainable health management will require the integration of different actors involved in health research. In this call for papers, Sustainability welcomes studies exploring the following themes:       

  • Research exploring the burden of disease at the global, regional, and national levels.
  • Studies assessing the Sustainable Development Goals, as related to health, education, nutrition, and inequality.
  • Research covering “Health in All” and “One health” concepts using statistical and epidemiological data.
  • Studies developing methodological concepts and analytical frameworks to assess the management of health.
  • Investigation focused on measuring and comparing healthcare access and quality among locations or populations.
  • Studies comparing the temporal trends of diseases and identifying patterns by sex, age, and location which cause disparities in the burden of disease.

Prof. Dr. Daniel Diaz
Guest Editor

Manuscript Submission Information

Manuscripts should be submitted online at www.mdpi.com by registering and logging in to this website. Once you are registered, click here to go to the submission form. Manuscripts can be submitted until the deadline. All submissions that pass pre-check are peer-reviewed. Accepted papers will be published continuously in the journal (as soon as accepted) and will be listed together on the special issue website. Research articles, review articles as well as short communications are invited. For planned papers, a title and short abstract (about 100 words) can be sent to the Editorial Office for announcement on this website.

Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Sustainability is an international peer-reviewed open access semimonthly journal published by MDPI.

Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a manuscript. The Article Processing Charge (APC) for publication in this open access journal is 2400 CHF (Swiss Francs). Submitted papers should be well formatted and use good English. Authors may use MDPI's English editing service prior to publication or during author revisions.

Keywords

  • sustainable health
  • global burden of disease
  • healthcare access
  • universal health coverage
  • Sustainable Development Goals
  • global health
  • prevention strategies
  • health promotion
  • public health

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Risk Perception and Sense of Public Health Safety: The Mediating Role of Emotional Perception
by Ruyi Shi, Qiqi Liu and Guangzhu Wu
Sustainability 2023, 15(21), 15632; https://doi.org/10.3390/su152115632 - 5 Nov 2023
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The COVID-19 pandemic has not only caused significant economic, social, and cultural impacts, but it has also significantly influenced the public’s sense of psychological health and safety. Therefore, this study aimed to explain the theoretical logic of risk perception and the sense of [...] Read more.
The COVID-19 pandemic has not only caused significant economic, social, and cultural impacts, but it has also significantly influenced the public’s sense of psychological health and safety. Therefore, this study aimed to explain the theoretical logic of risk perception and the sense of public health safety. A conceptual framework of risk perception consisting of four dimensions—emotional perception, information perception, trust perception, and efficacy perception—was constructed. Additionally, the impact of risk perception on the sense of public health safety was empirically explored. By conducting an analysis of a survey of 292 residents in China, we found that risk perception had different impacts on residents’ sense of public health safety. Emotional perception and information perception had significantly negative effects on the sense of public health safety, while the effects of trust perception and efficacy perception were significantly positive. Notably, emotional perception played a partial mediating role in the impact of information perception, trust perception, and efficacy perception on sense of public health safety, respectively. The findings of this study showed that emotional perception is a critical mechanism for improving residents’ sense of public health safety. Some certain guidance measures are provided to reduce public anxiety and fear during pandemics. Full article
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Sex, Age, and Regional Disparities in the Burden of Asthma in Mexico from 1990 to 2019: A Secondary Analysis of the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019
by Ana Lopez-Bago, Ricardo Lascurain, Pavel E. Hernandez-Carreño, Francisco Gallardo-Vera, Jesus Argueta-Donohue, Francisco Jimenez-Trejo, David A. Fuentes-Zavaleta, Saul A. Beltran-Ontiveros, Delia M. Becerril-Camacho, Victor A. Contreras-Rodriguez and Daniel Diaz
Sustainability 2023, 15(16), 12599; https://doi.org/10.3390/su151612599 - 20 Aug 2023
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Asthma is the most prevalent cause of chronic respiratory diseases. Herein, we evaluate the asthma burden in Mexico based on results from the Global Burden of Disease (GBD 2019) study 2019. Using data from the GBD 2019, we estimated asthma prevalence, incidence, mortality, [...] Read more.
Asthma is the most prevalent cause of chronic respiratory diseases. Herein, we evaluate the asthma burden in Mexico based on results from the Global Burden of Disease (GBD 2019) study 2019. Using data from the GBD 2019, we estimated asthma prevalence, incidence, mortality, and disability-adjusted lived years (DALYs) counts and crude and age-standardized rates per 100,000 people with a 95% uncertainty interval (UI) by sex and age at the national and subnational levels in Mexico from 1990 to 2019. At the national level, asthma affected 3.35 million (95% UI, 2.59–4.37) people, with 606.0 thousand (433.0–811.1) new incident cases and 1655 (3–1931) deaths during 2019. Asthma caused a slightly higher burden in females and affected mainly age groups between 1 and 14 years of age. The burden of asthma gradually decreased from 1990 to 2010. However, during the last decade (2010–2019), prevalence increased by 8.2%, as did incidence, by 11.3%, whereas mortality and DALYs decreased by 23.3 and 1.6%, respectively. Finally, the burden of asthma displayed a heterogeneous pattern of disease at the subnational level. In conclusion, asthma causes a significant health loss in Mexico that differentially affects the population distributed among the states of the country, thus causing health disparities that should be addressed to provide sustainable asthma diagnosis and control to reduce its burden, especially in the early stages of life. Full article
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The Impact of Higher Education on Health Literacy: A Comparative Study between Urban and Rural China
by Yanwen Long, Changli Jia, Xiaoxia Luo, Yufeng Sun, Wenjing Zuo, Yibo Wu, Yunchou Wu, Ayidana Kaierdebieke and Zhi Lin
Sustainability 2022, 14(19), 12142; https://doi.org/10.3390/su141912142 - 25 Sep 2022
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Health China 2030 calls for health equity. The strict household registration system, known as Hukou, results in an uneven distribution of social resources between urban and rural China. Higher education can promote social mobility and narrow health inequality. Health literacy is a [...] Read more.
Health China 2030 calls for health equity. The strict household registration system, known as Hukou, results in an uneven distribution of social resources between urban and rural China. Higher education can promote social mobility and narrow health inequality. Health literacy is a significant indicator to predict health status. Drawing on national representative data recently collected, this study examines the impact of higher education on health literacy in urban and rural China. Propensity score matching was used to address potential selection bias. Ordinary least squares regressions and Oaxaca–Blinder decomposition techniques were conducted to explore urban-rural disparities in health benefits from higher education. The findings indicate that there are existing gaps in health literacy, higher education attainment, household income, and healthcare coverage between urban and rural China. Higher education attainment can significantly promote health literacy both in urban and rural China, after controlling for a series of demographic, socio-economic, and individual characteristics. Moreover, this study highlights a negative heterogenous treatment effect pattern: those who are less likely to attend college can obtain more health benefits from higher education than those who are more likely to be admitted into college. Public education and health programs, policies, and goals should be further optimized to promote integrated development in urban and rural China. Full article
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