In studies for the 1993 World development report: investing in health Murray et al. developed the disability-adjusted life year (DALY). This article examines one particular aspect of the DALY methodology: the weighting of life years by age. For the quantitative implementation of this notion Murray proposed a general equation to weight life years by age, which specifies that the years lived betw...

BACKGROUND The general pattern of epidemiologic transition from communicable to noncommunicable diseases is also observed for gastrointestinal and liver diseases (GILD), which constitute a heterogeneous array of causes of death and disability. We aimed to describe the trend of GILD in Iran based on the global burden of disease (GBD2010) study from 1990 to 2010. METHODS The trend of number of de...

Objectives: The objective of this study was to determine the 30 years (1990 2019) trends rheumatic heart diseases (RHD) in terms estimated prevalence, deaths, and disability-adjusted life (DALYs) for Pakistan. Methodology: This ecological consisted an analysis data extracted from Global Burden Disease Study, which (from 1990 trend RHD Pakistan DALYs, deaths number cased age-standardized rate (A...

• Both QALYs and DALYs are also usually discounted, meaning more weight can be given to immediate over distant outcomes, and both measures can account for disease severity. The two measures however are not interchangeable.1 For example, DALYs incorporate an age-weighting function, which assigns lower weights to the years of the young and elderly, and the origins of disability and quality of lif...

background: maintenace and promotion of health are the duties of governments. for suitable resource allocation decisions in health sector, we need measures that combine information on mortality and non-fatal health outcomes. disability adjusted life years (dalys) have above mentioned features.  breast cancer is the most prevalent cancer in women. it is the first cause of death in 40-44 years ol...

A quantitative microbial risk assessment was applied to evaluate the microbial risks of the Accra Urban Water System (AUWS). The exposure assessment was based on the count of indicator organisms in waste water from open roadside drains and in water and sand samples from the beach. The predicted total disease burden generated in a representative catchment of the AUWS (Odaw Catchment) was 36,329 ...

Violence is an important public health challenge with substantial economic consequences for the affected individuals, families, and communities. Using data from the World Health Organization (WHO) and the World Bank, the economic value of disability-adjusted life years (DALYs) lost due to violence in 2002 was estimated for WHO Member States and presented as a percentage of gross domestic produc...

Aim: Cancer is one of the leading causes premature death in world. However, economic burden cancer at country level unknown. This study aims to estimate loss disability-adjusted life years (DALYs) lost due between 1990-2019 Turkey. Methods: The value DALYs has been estimated using human capital approach. used and gross domestic product (GDP) per capita Results: Total 1990 was as $4,783,030,609 ...

BACKGROUND Numerous population-based studies have documented high prevalence of scabies in overcrowded settings, particularly among children and in tropical regions. We provide an estimate of the global burden of scabies using data from the Global Burden of Disease (GBD) Study 2015. METHODS We identified scabies epidemiological data sources from an extensive literature search and hospital ins...