Browsing by Author "Vollmer, Sebastian"
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Association between economic growth and early childhood nutrition – Authors' reply
Vollmer, Sebastian; Harttgen, Kenneth; Subramanyam, Malavika A; Finlay, Jocelyn E.; Klasen, Stephan; Subramanian, S.V. Venkata (Elsevier BV, 2015)Anna Bershteyn and colleagues provide a useful comparison of estimates of the association between economic growth and early childhood undernutrition in our study1 with those of previous studies. Their comparative exercise ... -
Association between economic growth and early childhood undernutrition: evidence from 121 Demographic and Health Surveys from 36 low-income and middle-income countries
Vollmer, Sebastian; Harttgen, Kenneth; Subramanyam, Malavika A; Finlay, Jocelyn E.; Klasen, Stephan; Subramanian, S.V. Venkata (Elsevier BV, 2014)BACKGROUND: Economic growth is widely regarded as a necessary, and often sufficient, condition for the improvement of population health. We aimed to assess whether macroeconomic growth was associated with reductions in ... -
The Emergence of Three Human Development Clubs
Vollmer, Sebastian; Holzmann, Hajo; Ketterer, Florian; Klasen, Stephan; Canning, David J. (Public Library of Science, 2013)We examine the joint distribution of levels of income per capita, life expectancy, and years of schooling across countries in 1960 and in 2000. In 1960 countries were clustered in two groups; a rich, highly educated, high ... -
Geographic and sociodemographic variation of cardiovascular disease risk in India: A cross-sectional study of 797,540 adults
Geldsetzer, Pascal; Manne-Goehler, Jennifer Michele; Theilmann, Michaela; Davies, Justine I.; Awasthi, Ashish; Danaei, Goodarz; Gaziano, Thomas Andrew; Vollmer, Sebastian; Jaacks, Lindsay; Barnighausen, Till; Atun, Rifat (Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2018)Background Cardiovascular disease (CVD) is the leading cause of mortality in India. Yet, evidence on the CVD risk of India’s population is limited. To inform health system planning and effective targeting of interventions, ... -
Patterns of Frailty in Older Adults: Comparing Results from Higher and Lower Income Countries Using the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE) and the Study on Global AGEing and Adult Health (SAGE)
Harttgen, Kenneth; Kowal, Paul; Strulik, Holger; Chatterji, Somnath; Vollmer, Sebastian (Public Library of Science, 2013)We use the method of deficit accumulation to describe prevalent and incident levels of frailty in community-dwelling older persons and compare prevalence rates in higher income countries in Europe, to prevalence rates in ...