BACKGROUND Multiple sclerosis (MS) is a rare chronically debilitating disease. There are few reports on the burden of disease of MS and prevalence in China. The authors intended to estimate disease burden and prevalence of MS in Shandong Province using available epidemiologic data. METHODS Prevalence was calculated using DISMOD II software based on incidence extrapolated from hospitalization ...

background: water, sanitation and hygiene have a very important role in public health. poor sanitation is the cause of water contamination, which causes many types of diseases. the aim of this paper was to present the attributable death and disability adjusted life year (dalys) of untreated water and insanitary environments from 1990 to 2010 in iran.   methods: in the global burden of disease 2...

BACKGROUND Snakebite envenoming is a major public health problem throughout the rural tropics. Antivenom is effective in reducing mortality and remains the mainstay of therapy. This study aimed to determine the cost-effectiveness of using effective antivenoms for Snakebite envenoming in Nigeria. METHODOLOGY Economic analysis was conducted from a public healthcare system perspective. Estimates...

Diets consisting of high amounts animal-based protein have been associated with adverse public health effects and are often deemed environmentally unsustainable. Therefore, replacing red meat by pulses has proposed to reduce the impact on human environment. However, unprocessed is an important source nutrients, such as vitamin B12, iron, zinc selenium, substitution may negative nutrient adequac...

Rabies is a fatal, preventable zoonosis, but it is not effectively controlled throughout much of the developing world. The impetus for control is hampered by a lack of awareness of its true impact. We estimate a disability-adjusted life year (DALY) score for rabies to quantify the disease impact relative to other diseases to set priorities for public health interventions.

Abstract Background Cardiovascular diseases (CVDs) are the number one cause of global mortality representing about third all deaths across world. The objective present study was to model trend in disability-adjusted life years (DALY) and its components due CVD over past three decades. We also aimed evaluate longitudinal relationship between DALY Human Development Index (HDI) this period time. M...

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 Disability-Adjusted Life Year (DALY) was designed by the World Health Organization (WHO) to measure, compare, and analyze the burden of various diseases. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first study on the assessment of burden of traumatic spinal fracture (TSF) in an Iranian community. We estimated burden of TSF includes both isolated (iTSF) and associated injuries relat...