nemanja rancic

We aimed to investigating the sex-specific and age-specific melanoma mortality trends observed on the territory of Serbia between 2000 and 2021.

This population-based study used data from the Statistical Office of the Republic of Serbia database during the period 2000–2021. The calculation of the gender and age-standardized rates (ASR) was performed. We used a regression analysis complete with linear trend model.

The mean ASR was 1.77 per 100,000 people, meaning that male mortality rates (2.24 per 100,000) was higher than female mortality rates (1.34 per 100,000). During the observation period, a rising trend in mortality from melanoma skin cancer was reported. Observed by gender, the change of melanoma mortality trend was significant in men (P=0.021), but not in women (P=0.747). The annual growth rate of ASRs values was 1.43%. A increase in the melanoma mortality rate was observed since 2000 by 2.44% annually in males and by 2.79% annually in females. Mortality rates were increasing in both sexes as they aged, and the greatest number of deaths was recorded in the group of those aged 80 yr or above (16.25 per 100,000 for men; 10.45 per 100,000 for women).

Our study findings underline the importance of launching more effective public health awareness campaigns to educate people about the dangers of melanoma and its symptoms’ detection along with establishing a diagnosis at an early stage of the disease, especially among male patients and those at an advanced age.

Health indicators are often used for a variety of purposes, including program management, re-source allocation, monitoring of country progress, performance-based payment, and global reporting.Real pro-gress in health towards the United Nations Millennium Development Goals and other national health priorities is vitally dependent on stronger health systems. We aimed to analyse the progress of “birth related indicators” of selected countries of Balkan and Eastern Europe and to forecast their values in the future.

This research report article represents a descriptive data analysis of selected health indicators, ex-tracted from European Health for All database (HFA-DB) and EuroStat. Indicators of interest were analysed for 17 countries in observational period from 1990 to 2019. The data were analysed usinga linear trend estimate and median operation and interquartile range 25th–75th percentile were used for better comparison of each country. Forecasting analysis to year 2025 was performed by combining Excel analysis and SPSS program.

Number of all live births to mothers aged under 20 is decreasing in almost all examined countries,while live births to mother over 35 is mostly increasing. Total fertility rate is also mainly decreasing in almost all countries of interest for our investigation, as well as the crude birth rate.Estimated infant mortality per 1000 live births is decreasing in all observed countries.

Population aging is becoming more pronounced, while current birth-related indicators have nega-tive tendencies; this problem will obviously continue over time.