BACKGROUND South Africa is experiencing epidemiological transition, with the burden of chronic diseases increasing. Stroke is currently the second leading cause of death in South Africa; however, limited data are available on incidence, prevalence and resulting disability. Quantifying the epidemiological parameters and disease burden is important in the planning of health services. AIMS To sy...

Substance use disorder is a major contributor to disability adjusted life year. Globally and especially in Africa there high treatment gap for substance disorders (SUDs) lack of training addiction psychiatry. This commentary discusses challenges SUD offers suggestions advance the field. Sociopolitical health system factors limit availability healthcare providers Africa. It essential that govern...

INTRODUCTION Reducing sugar-sweetened beverage consumption through taxation is a promising public health response to the obesity epidemic in the U.S. This study quantifies the expected health and economic benefits of a national sugar-sweetened beverage excise tax of $0.01/ounce over 10 years. METHODS A cohort model was used to simulate the impact of the tax on BMI. Assuming ongoing implementa...

We estimated the burden of diseases in Korea especially caused by major cancers using DALY (disability adjusted life year) measurement. Firstly, the burden of disease due to premature death was estimated by using YLLs (years life lost due to premature death) measurement developed by the global burden of disease study group. Secondly, for the calculation of the YLD (years lived with disability),...

• 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 AND PURPOSE Despite the disproportionate burden of cardiovascular disease among indigenous Australians, information on stroke is sparse. This article documents the incidence and burden of stroke (in disability-adjusted life years) in indigenous and non-indigenous people in Western Australia (1997-2002), a state resident to 15% of indigenous Australians comprising 3.4% of the populati...

BACKGROUND Health adjusted life years (HALYs) are used for estimating burden of disease and as outcomes in cost-effectiveness analyses of medical care and public health interventions. OBJECTIVES The impact of use of health-related quality of life (HRQL) scores associated with the disability-adjusted life year (DALY), the quality-adjusted life year (QALY), and the years of healthy life (YHL) m...