background: this study uses data of the global burden of diseases (gbd) study 2010 to report death, disability-adjusted life year (dalys), years of life lived with disability (ylds) and years of life lost due to premature mortality (ylls), attributed to suboptimal breastfeeding by age and gender during 1990 to 2010 in iran. materials and methods:the gbd assessments were used, together with esti...

INTRODUCTION The disability-adjusted life year (DALY) is widely used to assess the burden of different health problems and risk factors. The disability weight, a value anchored between 0 (perfect health) and 1 (equivalent to death), is necessary to estimate the disability component (years lived with disability, YLDs) of the DALY. After publication of the ground-breaking Global Burden of Disease...

Introduction: Piped water systems are considered to be the gold standard for drinking water according to the Joint Water Monitoring Study. However, poor maintenance of distribution pipes, intermittency of water supply, and sewage water intrusion have contributed to a number of water-borne disease episodes in developed and developing countries. Methods: This study investigated the risk burden r...