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4 Ideas for Improving Data Sources, Methodology, and Research
Pages 47-50

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... future research needed to further understanding on these topics. PRINCIPLES FOR FUTURE WORK During his presentation, Michael McGinnis suggested a list of principles that, in his view, could guide future policy and research on premature mortality and risk: • Clarify the analytic agenda -- the present workshop is a beginning.
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... Murray noted Norway is beginning to create a national dataset incorporating educational attainment among other social factors, but that country is an exception. Samuel Preston also indicated social and economic factors are important to study, but noted an interstate factor analysis of causes of death points to the importance of behavior more than poverty or medical care factors.
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... Majid Ezzati raised a second methodological issue that he and his colleagues will be addressing in the future. He stated that over the coming year, they will examine issues around ranges of key values of risk factors related to premature mortality, including obesity, as well as changes in effect sizes and mediation using a worldwide cohort of over 10 million participants.1 He noted biases will continue to exist at some level because the data are observational.
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... ; • quantification of distal socioeconomic determinants of specific diseases related to premature mortality and addressing the prob lems of limited generalizability for all-cause mortality findings (Murray) ; • research on causes of early mortality that include lack of vaccina tion, lack of access to care, and other factors related to medical care (Theo Vos)
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