in India and leads annually to 1.1 million deaths (uncertainity index 0.9-1.3 million)1. It is estimated to account for 10.8 per cent of all deaths and 4.6 per cent of all disability adjusted life years (DALYs) in the country1. Globally also, hypertension is the most important risk factor for death and disease burden and is estimated to be responsible for 9.4 million deaths and 7.0 per cent DAL...

OBJECTIVE Traumatic brain injury (TBI) is a major cause of death and disability, leading to great personal suffering and huge costs to society. Integrated knowledge on epidemiology, economic consequences and disease burden of TBI is scarce but essential for optimizing healthcare policy and preventing TBI. This study aimed to estimate incidence, cost-of-illness and disability-adjusted life years...

Background COPD is a globally significant public health problem and is the second leading cause of mortality. This study presents the health burden of COPD in Nepal using the Global Burden of Disease (GBD) study 2016 dataset. Methods This study used the data from the GBD repository presenting morbidity and mortality attributed to COPD, by sex and age. In GBD 2016, due to a lack of the primary...

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...

AIMS Estimate the prevalence of cannabis dependence and its contribution to the global burden of disease. METHODS Systematic reviews of epidemiological data on cannabis dependence (1990-2008) were conducted in line with PRISMA and meta-analysis of Observational Studies in Epidemiology (MOOSE) guidelines. Culling and data extraction followed protocols, with cross-checking and consistency check...

 Introduction & Historical aspects: o Evolution of Summary Measure of Population health  Summary measure of Population health: o Why Important. o Different Measures: Sullivan‟s, Health Expectancy: HALE, QALE, DFLE o DALY  Global burden of Disease study.  Disability Adjusted Life Years: DALYs. o Measure, Calculations, Social and Cultural, Sensitivity analysis. o Why important o DALY and QALY...

OBJECTIVE To quantify the burden of maternal and neonatal conditions in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) that could be averted by full access to quality first-level obstetric surgical procedures. DESIGN Burden of disease and epidemiological modelling. SETTING LMICs from all global regions. POPULATION The entire population in 2010. METHODS We included five conditions in our analy...

Type II diabetes mellitus accounts for 90% of all cases of diabetes, and its inclusion in health evaluation has shown that its complications have a considerable impact on the population's quality of life. The current article presents the results of the Global Burden of Disease Study in Brazil for the year 1998, with an emphasis on diabetes mellitus and its complications. The indicator used was ...

BACKGROUND The epidemic of HIV/AIDS and treatments that have emerged to alleviate, have brought about a shift in the burden of disease from death to quality of life/disability. The aim was to determine which factors are associated with improvements in the level of health of male and female patients with HIV/AIDS in Andalusia, in terms of disability-adjusted life years. METHODS Descriptive stu...

In the Global Burden of Disease study, disease burden is measured as disability-adjusted life years (DALYs). The paramount assumption of the DALY is that it makes sense to aggregate years lived with disability (YLDs) and years of life lost (YLLs). However, this is not smooth sailing. Whereas morbidity (YLD) is something that happens to an individual, loss of life itself (YLL) occurs when that i...