OBJECTIVE To estimate the health care expenditure and productivity losses due to smoking. DESIGN A retrospective cohort study of a random population sample of 5,247 men aged 25-59 years from the provinces of Kuopio and North Karelia in eastern Finland. Subjects initially surveyed in 1972 were linked to a set of national registers through their social security identification numbers and follow...

background: â maintenance of health and its fair and just promotion in any society is the responsibility and duty of its respective government. appropriate financial allocations and prudent decisions in the health sector requires the definition of an index that would reveal the loss resulting from early deaths of any cause and originate from disabilities due to nonfatal outcomes. the disability...

OBJECTIVE To estimate the number of productive years of life lost to premature death due to coronary heart disease in Brazil and to report their trends over a 20-year period. METHODS The Brazilian Ministry of Health raw database on death due to coronary heart disease from 1979-1998 was used. The productive years of life lost to premature death were estimated using 20 and 59 years of age as th...

author(s): forouzanfar mh, (md, phd) mohammad k, (phd) majdzadeh r, (phd) malekzadeh r, (md) abolhasani f, (md) mohammadnejad m, (md) holakouie naeini k, (phd) hosseini m, (phd) naghavi m, (phd). introduction: hepatitis b is a common problem in many countries. due to high efficacy, safety and low cost of vaccine, mass immunization has become a favorite strategy to improve population health. in ...

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...

background: economic burden due to premature mortalities is significant both on health system and on the society as a whole. this study aimed to determine the productivity costs and years of potential life lost associated with five leading causes of death in iran from 2006 to 2010.   methods: data on mortality by sex and age-groups due to five main leading causes of death   (myocardial infarcti...