Background & Aims: The burden of premature mortality is used to prioritize health problems. The purpose of this study was to estimate the burden of premature mortality due to colorectal cancer in Golestan from 2011 – 2015. Materials & Methods: In this sequential cross-sectional study, based on the province mortality registration data and standard expected years of life lost (SEYLL), the burden...

OBJECTIVE A recent study (Lemaire) estimated the life expectancy loss attributable to gun deaths at 103.6 days for the overall U.S. population: 150.7 days for white males and 361.5 days for black males. This study estimates the life expectancy loss attributable to the premature death of individuals who initially survived gun-related traumatic brain injury (TBI) and spinal cord injury (SCI) in t...

OBJECTIVES We estimated the burden of disease in the United States attributable to obesity by gender, with life expectancy, quality-adjusted life expectancy, years of life lost annually, and quality-adjusted life years lost annually as outcome measures. METHODS We obtained burden of disease estimates for adults falling into the following body-mass index categories: normal weight (23 to <25), ...

Global importance of the health condition today: Hiv/AiDS is one of the greatest threats to human health worldwide, with an estimated 38.6 million people infected with the virus in 2005. the vast majority of people with Hiv are in sub-Saharan Africa, where life expectancy today is just 47 years; without AiDS, it is estimated that life expectancy would be 5 years longer. the number of children w...

We propose a series of methods and models in order to explore the Global Burden of Disease Study and the provided healthy life expectancy (HALE) estimates from the World Health Organization (WHO) based on the mortality μx of a population provided in a classical life table and a mortality diagram. Our estimates are compared with the HALE estimates for the World territories and the WHO regions al...

INTRODUCTION We estimate life expectancy and average years of life lost (AYLL) after an HIV diagnosis using population-based surveillance data from 25 states that have had name-based HIV surveillance since 1996. METHODS We used US national HIV surveillance data (cases > or = 13 years old) to model life expectancy after an HIV diagnosis using the life table approach. We then compared life expe...

STUDY OBJECTIVE This study aimed to describe the relationship between health and socioeconomic indicators in the 38 neighbourhoods of the city of Barcelona, Spain. DESIGN Mortality data for 1983-89 and socioeconomic data for each of the 38 neighbourhoods of Barcelona were used. Mortality indicators used were the comparative mortality figure, the ratio of potential years of life lost, and life...

OBJECTIVES To explore various methods to quantify the burden of mortality, with a special interest for the more recent method at the core of calculations of disability adjusted life years (DALY). DESIGN Various methods calculating the age schedule at death are applied to two historical life table populations. One method calculates the "years of life lost", by multiplying the numbers of deaths...