Population Health Metrics
Overview
Population Health Metrics is a peer-reviewed journal that focuses on the measurement, analysis, and interpretation of health outcomes and their determinants at the population level. It publishes research articles, reviews, and commentaries that contribute to the understanding of population health, including the development and application of innovative methodologies and metrics. The journal aims to inform public health policies and interventions by providing evidence-based insights into the distribution and determinants of health and disease in populations.
Details
Details
Abbr.
Popul Health Metr
Publisher
Biomed Central
Start
2003
End
Continuing
e-ISSN
1478-7954
Country
United Kingdom
Language
English
Specialty
Public Health
Metrics
Metrics
h-index / Ranks: 5814
63
SJR / Ranks: 1666
1646
CiteScore / Ranks: 5372
4.80
Recent Articles
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Gebregziabher M, Asgedom A, Abraha H, Teka H, Etsedingl A, Berihu T, et al.
Popul Health Metr
. 2025 Mar;
23(1):10.
PMID: 40087697
Background: Civilians bear a significant burden of morbidity and mortality in modern armed conflicts, particularly when explosive weapons are used in densely populated areas. Many civilian facilities were attacked in...
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Sanmarchi F, Capodici A, Golinelli D, Lenzi J, Zamparini M, Toth F, et al.
Popul Health Metr
. 2025 Mar;
23(1):9.
PMID: 40055788
Background: Italy implemented various measures, including lockdowns and a mass vaccination campaign, to address the COVID-19 pandemic. This study aims to describe the temporal and regional differences in mortality trends...
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Benjamin-Samuel S, Bruno M, Zeina J
Popul Health Metr
. 2025 Mar;
23(1):8.
PMID: 40033376
Background: Following Hamas's 7 October attack, Israel launched extensive aerial bombardments in the Gaza Strip, followed by a large-scale ground invasion. During the first 3 months of the conflict, up...
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Gomez-Ugarte A, Basellini U, Camarda C, Janssen F, Zagheni E
Popul Health Metr
. 2025 Feb;
23(1):7.
PMID: 39987451
Commonly used measures of socioeconomic inequalities in mortality, such as the slope and the relative index of inequality, are based on summary measures of the group-specific age-at-death distributions (e.g. standardized...
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Mei L, Jiang Q
Popul Health Metr
. 2025 Feb;
23(1):6.
PMID: 39984920
Background: China now faces multiple challenging demographic and public policy problems that have emerged from four decades of sex-selective induced abortions. The sex-selective induced abortion of female fetuses has been...
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Mousavi A, Daroudi R, Alipour S, Akbari Sari A, Daastari F
Popul Health Metr
. 2025 Feb;
23(1):5.
PMID: 39948635
Background: Quality-Adjusted Life Expectancy (QALE) is a well-established approach for evaluating health expectancy, combining health-related quality of life (HRQoL) with life expectancy (LE) to produce a cohesive summary score. This...
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Nawsherwan , Mubarik S, Naeem S, Mubarak R, Yu C, Yan W, et al.
Popul Health Metr
. 2025 Feb;
23(1):4.
PMID: 39940004
Background: Yemen is the poorest and war-torn country in the North Africa and Middle East region and lacks a comprehensive assessment of temporal trends in the overall disease burden, injuries,...
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Junaid K, Kiran T, Gupta M, Kishore K, Siwatch S
Popul Health Metr
. 2025 Feb;
23(1):2.
PMID: 39893454
Background: The multiple imputation by chained equations (MICE) is a widely used approach for handling missing data. However, its robustness, especially for high missing proportions in health indicators, is under-researched....
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Stang A, Deckert M
Popul Health Metr
. 2025 Jan;
23(1):1.
PMID: 39871269
Background: The population figures in Germany are obtained by updating the results of the latest census with information from the statistics on birth, deaths and migration statistics. The Census 2011...