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...

Maternal and child undernutrition is highly prevalent in low-income and middle-income countries, resulting in substantial increases in mortality and overall disease burden. In this paper, we present new analyses to estimate the effects of the risks related to measures of undernutrition, as well as to suboptimum breastfeeding practices on mortality and disease. We estimated that stunting, severe...

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...

Exposure to chemical contaminants found in foods has been associated with diverse adverse health effects. The aim of this study was estimate the burden disease dietary exposure four chemicals Denmark 2019: lead (Pb), cadmium (Cd), methylmercury (MeHg), and inorganic arsenic (i-As). We collected national food consumption monitoring data from Danish databases, dose-response severity scientific li...

Abstract Aim Our aim was to estimate the overall, and inequalities in the, population health impact of COVID-19 Scotland, measured by disability-adjusted life years (DALYs) 2020. Methods National deaths daily case data were input into consensus model outlined European Burden Disease Network, DALYs. Total Years Life Lost (YLL) estimated, for each deprivation quintile Scottish population. Lived w...

background: the general pattern of epidemiologic transition from communicable to non-communicable diseases is also observed for gastrointestinal and liver diseases (gild), which constitute a heterogeneous array of causes of death and disability. we aimed to describe the trend of gild in iran based on the global burden of disease (gbd2010) study from 1990 to 2010. methods: the trend of number of...

BACKGROUND The Global Burden of Disease Study 2010 (GBD 2010), estimated that a substantial proportion of the world's disease burden came from mental, neurological and substance use disorders. In this paper, we used GBD 2010 data to investigate time, year, region and age specific trends in burden due to mental, neurological and substance use disorders. METHOD For each disorder, prevalence dat...

BACKGROUND Burden of disease is a joint measure of mortality and morbidity which makes it easier to compare health problems in which these two components enjoy different degrees of relative importance. The objective of this study is ascertaining the burden of disease due to cancer in Spain via the calculation of disability-adjusted life years (DALYs). METHODS DALYs are the sum of years of lif...

BACKGROUND The measurement of health benefits is a key issue in health economic evaluations. There is very scarce empirical literature exploring the differences of using quality-adjusted life years (QALYs) or disability-adjusted life years (DALYs) as benefit metrics and their potential impact in decision-making. METHODS Two previously published models delivering outputs in QALYs, were adapted...

In 2009 two notable outbreaks, Q fever and the novel influenza A(H1N1)pdm09, occurred in The Netherlands. Using a composite health measure, disability-adjusted life years (DALYs), the outbreaks were quantified and compared. DALYs were calculated using standardized methodology incorporating age- and sex-stratified data in a disease progression model; years lost due to disability and years of lif...