OBJECTIVE The Global Burden of Disease Study 2010 (GBD 2010) is the first to include conduct disorder (CD) and attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) for burden quantification. METHOD A previous systematic review pooled the available epidemiological data for CD and ADHD, and predicted prevalence by country, region, age and sex for each disorder. Prevalence was then multiplied by a di...

Disability-adjusted life years (DALYs) were developed as a health gap measure to quantify the burden of disease and injury on human populations for the Global Burden of Disease Study (Murray 1996). Murray and Acharya (1997) have reviewed the specific formulation of DALYs and the arguments underpinning the social values explicitly incorporated into DALYs. This paper summarizes the arguments supp...

Disability-adjusted life years (DALYs)—a frequent indicator for assessment of the relative eff ects of public-health interventions—explicitly incorporate disability. This Viewpoint will argue, however, that the notion of disability embodied in DALYs does not accord with that in WHO’s International Classifi cation of Functioning, Disability, and Health (ICF). Underlying this inconsistency is the...

Background: Iran is located in Asian esophageal cancer belt, with age-standardized incidence rate (ASR) of approximately 7 per 100,000 for both men and women. To provide potential solution recommendations for achieving accurate estimations regarding the burden of the disease in Iran, we designed a study to assess the burden of esophageal cancer in Iran during 1995-2015 by collecting data from t...

BACKGROUND Snakebite envenoming (SBE) is a major problem in rural areas of West Africa (WA). Compared to other Neglected Tropical Diseases (NTD), the public health burden of SBE has not been well characterized. We estimated the impact of snakebite mortality and morbidity using the Disability Adjusted Life Years (DALYs) metrics for 16 countries in WA. METHODS We used the reported annual number...

BACKGROUND The health impacts of pulmonary impairment after tuberculosis (TB) treatment have not been included in assessments of TB burden. Therefore, previous global and national TB burden estimates do not reflect the full consequences of surviving TB. We assessed the burden of TB including pulmonary impairment after tuberculosis in Tarrant County, Texas using Disability-adjusted Life Years (D...

BACKGROUND Country comparisons that consider the effect of fatal and non-fatal disease outcomes are needed for health-care planning. We calculated disability-adjusted life-years (DALYs) to estimate the global burden of cancer in 2008. METHODS We used population-based data, mostly from cancer registries, for incidence, mortality, life expectancy, disease duration, and age at onset and death, a...

Disability-adjusted life year (DALY) is a metric that combines both fatal and non-fatal health problems into a single number. It is the primary metric used by the World Health Organization to assess the global burden of disease, and the metrics for cancer were published in GLOBOCAN2008, which is a project to estimate the incidence, mortality, prevalence and DALY for major types of cancers, at n...

BACKGROUND Although diet is related to chronic disease risk and mortality, its association with total disease burden is not clear. OBJECTIVE We investigated the minimum impact of different dietary patterns on disability-adjusted life years (DALYs) by using individual longitudinal data. DESIGN A prospective cohort study was conducted in 33,066 healthy men and women aged 20-70 y recruited int...