List of works by Debbie Bradshaw

A comparative risk assessment for South Africa in 2000: towards promoting health and preventing disease

scientific article published on August 2007

Achieving the health Millennium Development Goals for South Africa: challenges and priorities

scientific article published on 24 August 2009

Acknowledging uncertainty about maternal mortality estimates.

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Alcohol as a risk factor for unintentional rail injury fatalities during daylight hours

scientific article published in June 2006

Alcohol use in South Africa: findings from the first Demographic and Health Survey (1998).

scientific article published on January 2005

Assessing the quality of routine data for the prevention of mother-to-child transmission of HIV: An analytical observational study in two health districts with high HIV prevalence in South Africa

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Availability and quality of routine morbidity data: review of studies in South Africa

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Can non-fatal burden estimates from the Global Burden of Disease study be used locally? An investigation using models of stroke and diabetes for South Africa

scientific article published on 01 January 2021

Cancer incidence in a rural population of South Africa, 1998-2002.

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Certification of diabetes-related mortality: the need for an international guideline.

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Characteristics, availability and uses of vital registration and other mortality data sources in post-democracy South Africa

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Chronic noncommunicable diseases and HIV-AIDS on a collision course: relevance for health care delivery, particularly in low-resource settings--insights from South Africa

scientific article published on 16 November 2011

Deaths caused by HIV disease under-reported in South Africa

scientific article published in July 2009

Determinants and treatment of hypertension in South Africans: the first Demographic and Health Survey.

scientific article published in May 2008

Development of a Data Collection Tool for MbHIS-QUAL: Evaluation of the Quality of Morbidity Data in Routine Health Information Systems (RHISs) in Hospitals

scientific article published in January 2017

Diarrhoea in children under five years of age in South Africa (1997-2014)

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Differences among the coloured, white, black, and other South African populations in smoking-attributed mortality at ages 35-74 years: a case-control study of 481,640 deaths

scientific article published in August 2013

Disability weights from a household survey in a low socio-economic setting: how does it compare to the global burden of disease 2010 study?

scientific article published on 17 August 2016

Emerging trends in non-communicable disease mortality in South Africa, 1997 - 2010.

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Epidemiology of lower respiratory infection and pneumonia in South Africa (1997-2015): a systematic review protocol

scientific article published on 15 September 2016

Epidemiology of major depressive disorder in South Africa (1997-2015): a systematic review protocol

scientific article published on 04 July 2016

Estimating the Burden of Disease Attributable to Four Selected Environmental Risk Factors in South Africa

scientific article published on January 1, 2010

Estimating the burden of disease attributable to alcohol use in South Africa in 2000.

scientific article published on August 2007

Estimating the burden of disease attributable to childhood and maternal undernutrition in South Africa in 2000.

scientific article published in August 2007

Estimating the burden of disease attributable to diabetes in South Africa in 2000.

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Estimating the burden of disease attributable to high blood pressure in South Africa in 2000.

scientific article published in August 2007

Estimating the burden of disease attributable to high cholesterol in South Africa in 2000.

scientific article published in August 2007

Estimating the burden of disease attributable to indoor air pollution from household use of solid fuels in South Africa in 2000.

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Estimating the burden of disease attributable to interpersonal violence in South Africa in 2000.

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Estimating the burden of disease attributable to iron deficiency anaemia in South Africa in 2000.

scientific article published in August 2007

Estimating the burden of disease attributable to lead exposure in South Africa in 2000.

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Estimating the burden of disease attributable to physical inactivity in South Africa in 2000.

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Estimating the burden of disease attributable to smoking in South Africa in 2000.

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Estimating the burden of disease attributable to unsafe water and lack of sanitation and hygiene in South Africa in 2000.

scientific article published on August 2007

Estimating the burden of disease attributable to urban outdoor air pollution in South Africa in 2000.

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Estimating the burden of disease attributable to vitamin A deficiency in South Africa in 2000.

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Evaluating the quality of national mortality statistics from civil registration in South Africa, 1997-2007

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Evaluation of record linkage of mortality data between a health and demographic surveillance system and national civil registration system in South Africa

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Every death counts: use of mortality audit data for decision making to save the lives of mothers, babies, and children in South Africa

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Fatal violence among children under 15 years in four cities of South Africa, 2001-2005.

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HIV/AIDS data in South Africa

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HIV/AIDS in South Africa: how many people died from the disease between 1997 and 2010?

scientific article published on 27 October 2015

Health in South Africa: changes and challenges since 2009.

scientific article published on 30 November 2012

Human factors affecting the quality of routinely collected data in South Africa

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Identifying deaths from AIDS in South Africa

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Identifying deaths from AIDS in South Africa: an update

scientific article published in April 2005

Improving data to reduce the burden of disease--lessons from the Western Cape.

scientific article published in September 2009

Injury-related mortality in South Africa: a retrospective descriptive study of postmortem investigations

scientific article published on 13 March 2015

Interpersonal violence: an important risk factor for disease and injury in South Africa

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Levels and differentials in childhood mortality in South Africa, 1977-1998.

scientific article published on 16 November 2006

Linking mortuary data improves vital statistics on cause of death of children under five years in the Western Cape Province of South Africa

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Local-level mortality surveillance in resource-limited settings: a case study of Cape Town highlights disparities in health

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Making COD statistics useful for public health at local level in the city of Cape Town: utilidad para la salud pública a nivel local en Ciudad del Cabo

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Masking through averages--intraprovincial heterogeneity in HIV prevalence within the Western Cape

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Mental health is integral to public health: a call to scale up evidence-based services and develop mental health research.

scientific article published in June 2008

Monitoring of non-communicable diseases such as hypertension in South Africa: challenges for the post-2015 global development agenda

scientific article published on 13 August 2014

Mortality and socioeconomic status: the vicious cycle between poverty and ill health.

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Mortality trends and differentials in South Africa from 1997 to 2012: second National Burden of Disease Study

scientific article published on September 2016

Obesity in South Africa: the South African demographic and health survey

scientific article published on October 2002

Oesophageal and other cancer patterns in four selected districts of Transkei, Southern Africa: 1985-1990.

scientific article published in August 1995

Perceptions about data-informed decisions: an assessment of information-use in high HIV-prevalence settings in South Africa

scientific article published on 4 December 2017

Persistent burden from non-communicable diseases in South Africa needs strong action

scientific article published in April 2016

Poverty and non-communicable diseases in South Africa

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Progress towards Millennium Development Goal 4.

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Provincial mortality in South Africa, 2000--priority-setting for now and a benchmark for the future.

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Quality of cause of death certification at an academic hospital in Cape Town, South Africa.

scientific article published on September 2009

Rape of girls in South Africa

scientific article published in January 2002

Rates and causes of child mortality in an area of high HIV prevalence in rural South Africa

scientific article published in December 2006

Record-linkage comparison of verbal autopsy and routine civil registration death certification in rural north-east South Africa: 2006-09.

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Second National Burden of Disease Study South Africa: national and subnational mortality trends, 1997–2009

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Setting priorities in child health research investments for South Africa

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Sexual behaviour patterns in South Africa and their association with the spread of HIV: insights from a mathematical model

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South Africa's vital statistics are currently not suitable for monitoring progress towards injury and violence Sustainable Development Goals

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South African cause-of-death profile in transition--1996 and future trends

scientific article published on August 2002

South African child deaths 1990-2011: have HIV services reversed the trend enough to meet Millennium Development Goal 4?

scientific article published on October 2013

Strengthening local-level cause of death surveillance: a case study of Western Cape Province, South Africa

scientific article published in The Lancet

Strengthening public health in South Africa: building a stronger evidence base for improving the health of the nation.

scientific article published on August 2007

The burden of disease attributable to sexually transmitted infections in South Africa in 2000.

scientific article published on August 2007

The burden of non-communicable diseases in South Africa

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The disability adjusted life years due to stroke in South Africa in 2008.

scientific article published on 07 January 2013

The effect of educational attainment and other factors on HIV risk in South African women: results from antenatal surveillance, 2000-2005.

scientific article published in July 2009

The effect of syndromic management interventions on the prevalence of sexually transmitted infections in South Africa

scientific article published on 26 August 2010

The high burden of injuries in South Africa

scientific article published on September 2007

The importance of identified cause-of-death information being available for public health surveillance, actions and research.

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The role of sexually transmitted infections in the evolution of the South African HIV epidemic.

scientific article published on 31 October 2011

The use of prescribed drugs for common chronic conditions in South Africa in 1998.

scientific article published in February 2005

Tobacco use in South Africans during 1998: the first demographic and health survey.

scientific article published on June 2002

Transmissible cancer in Africa – Authors' reply

scientific article published in The Lancet

Trends in adult tobacco use from two South African Demographic and Health Surveys conducted in 1998 and 2003.

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Trends in cancer incidence in rural Eastern Cape Province; South Africa, 1998-2012.

scientific article published on 3 October 2014

Urban-rural and gender differences in tobacco and alcohol use, diet and physical activity among young black South Africans between 1998 and 2003

scientific article published on 29 January 2013

What is the scale of intimate partner homicide?

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Where do children die and what are the causes? Under-5 deaths in the Metro West geographical service area of the Western Cape, South Africa, 2011.

scientific article published on 6 March 2016

Where have all the gun deaths gone?

scientific article published on 19 May 2016