BACKGROUND Current methods of measuring the population burden of injuries rely on many assumptions and limited data available to the global burden of diseases (GBD) studies. The aim of this study was to compare the population burden of injuries using different approaches from the UK Burden of Injury (UKBOI) and GBD studies. METHODS AND FINDINGS The UKBOI was a prospective cohort of 1,517 inju...

The aims of this study were to describe fatal and non-fatal self-harm burdens, as well as burdens from the main preventable risk factors, and to investigate the different suicide methods in Hubei province in central China utilizing data from both Global Burden of Disease Study 2015 and Hubei Disease Surveillance Points system. All self-harm burdens including mortality, years of life lost (YLLs)...

COPD is responsible of morbidity, mortality and health costs. Projection in 2020 is State of COPD as the 3rd cause of global mortality (6th in 1990); 5th issue of years lost early death or disability (disability-adjusted life years, DALYs) [12th in 1990].Active smoking remains the main risk factor, but other factors are better known as professional factors, infections, the role of air pollution...

BACKGROUND Over the past decade, cardiovascular diseases (CVDs) have been the leading cause of death in the world. Ischemic heart diseases (IHDs) are the main form of CVDs and are the most important single cause of death around the world. This study aimed to estimate the burden of IHDs in the city of Isfahan by calculating disability-adjusted life years (DALYs). METHODS This population-based ...

BACKGROUND Neglected Tropical Diseases (NTDs) afflict around one billion individuals in the poorest parts of the world with many more at risk. Lymphatic filariasis is one of the most prevalent of the infections and causes significant morbidity in those who suffer the clinical conditions, particularly lymphedema and hydrocele. Depressive illness has been recognised as a prevalent disability in t...

objective: to determine the patterns,complications and casualties of road traffic accidents in north west of iran during 2013 new year holidays. m e t h od s : one hundred and eighty one patients with trauma-related vehicle crashes were investigated in a cross sectional-descriptive study. we only included those road traffic accidents which were recorded during the 2013 iranian new year holidays...

Psychiatric disorder is now recognised as Psychiatric disorder is now recognised as one of the greatest causes of human one of the greatest causes of human suffering. The burden to society of various suffering. The burden to society of various diseases has been quantified recently using diseases has been quantified recently using disability-adjusted life years (DALYs), a disability-adjusted lif...

Abstract COVID-19 has had a powerful impact on society with high rates of morbidity and mortality. The use an epidemiological indicator that estimates the burden disease by aggregating early mortality non-fatal cases in single measure potential to assist planning more appropriate actions at different levels health care. scope this article is estimate due Florianópolis/SC from April 2020 through...

AIM Cancer burden measured in disability adjusted life years (DALYs) captures survival and disability impacts of incident cancers. In this paper, we estimate the prospective burden of disease arising from 27 cancer sites diagnosed in 2006, by sex and ethnicity; and determine how its distribution differs from that for incidence rates alone. METHODS Using a prospective approach, Markov and canc...