Measuring burden of disease in two inner London boroughs using Disability Adjusted Life Years
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Measuring burden of disease in two inner London boroughs using Disability Adjusted Life Years.
BACKGROUND This paper uses the Disability Adjusted Life Year (DALY) to estimate disease burden at a local level and relates this to programme budget (PB) data. METHODS We estimated DALY using the global burden of disease (GBD) template. For years of life lost, local mortality data were used and for years of life with disability, the GBD estimates from World Health Organization EURO A region (...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Public Health
سال: 2008
ISSN: 1741-3842,1741-3850
DOI: 10.1093/pubmed/fdn015