The Global Burden of Disease (GBD) 2010 Study produced comparable estimates of the burden of 291 diseases and injuries in 1990, 2005, and 2010. This article reports on the global burden of untreated caries, severe periodontitis, and severe tooth loss in 2010 and compares those figures with new estimates for 1990. We used disability-adjusted life-years (DALYs) and years lived with disability (YL...

OBJECTIVE To estimate the burden of disease due to tuberculosis in the state of Santa Catarina, Brazil, in 2009. METHODS This was an epidemiological study with an ecological design. Data on tuberculosis incidence and mortality were collected from specific Brazilian National Ministry of Health databases. The burden of disease due to tuberculosis was based on the calculation of disability-adjus...

BACKGROUND This paper is part of a project to identify the proportion of the burden of each mental disorder averted by current and optimal interventions, and the cost-effectiveness of both. AIMS To use epidemiological data on schizophrenia to model the cost-effectiveness of current and optimal treatment. METHOD Calculate the burden of schizophrenia in the years lived with disability (YLD) c...

b a c k g r o u n d  & aim: this study aimed  to estimate  and project  the current  and future disability burden of typhoid fever in iran associated with climate and population to provide best policies for climate change adaptation. methods & materials: years lost due to disabilities (ylds) were measured as burden estimation in this study. the temperature was selected as climate variable. futu...

Abstract: Historically, human migrations have determined the spread of many infectious diseases by promoting emergence temporal outbreaks between populations. We aimed to analyze health indicators, expenditure, and disability caused tuberculosis (TB) HIV/AIDS burden under Colombian-Venezuelan migration flow focusing on Northeastern border. A retrospective study was conducted using TB data since...

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...

BackgroundMental disorders account for a substantial proportion of the years lived with disability (YLDs) globally. These estimates have generally been calculated top down based on summary statistics. The aim this study was to calculate YLDs and novel related measure, Health Loss Proportion (HeLP), 18 mental substance use disorders, person-level register data (bottom up).MethodsA cohort 6 989 6...

According to the data published in The Lancet, in 2010 musculoskeletal disorders were the cause of nearly 166 million years lived with disability (YLDs), with neck and low back pain accounting for 69.9% of the total. In Poland, in 2014 low back pain was self-reported by 28.4% of women and 21.2% of men aged 15 years and over, neck pain by 21% of women and 13% of men, and middle back pain by 19% ...

PURPOSE To demonstrate the application of Disability Adjusted Life Year (DALY) as an aid in health outcome measures to evaluate the epilepsy disease burden in rural China and to provide Chinese data to achieve a better understanding of disease burden due to epilepsy. METHODS The DALY is the sum of the number of years of survival with disability (Years Lived with Disability, YLD) and the numbe...

BACKGROUND Vaccination has been one of the most successful and cost-effective public health interventions in the last century and has saved millions of lives. In 1984, the Expanded Program on Immunization (EPI) was launched in Iran as one of the main components of Primary Health Care (PHC).  OBJECTIVES We aimed to investigate the burden of four vaccine-preventable diseases from 1990 to 2010 i...