Objectives: The main purpose of the study is to determine frequency stroke in patients who applied disability board. secondary aim factors affecting rates board due stroke. Methods: Patients over age 18 physical nedicine and rehabilitation outpatient clinic for assessment were included study. Disability files all scanned retrospectively information obtained was recorded. Results: It found that ...

AIM To estimate the burden of death, disease, and disability attributable to alcohol consumption in New Zealand. METHODS We applied the World Health Organization's comparative risk assessment methodology at country level; separately for Maori and non-Maori where possible. We combined the best estimates of alcohol consumption in the populations, with best estimates of alcohol-disease relations...

INTRODUCTION The Singapore Burden of Disease (SBoD) Study 2004 provides a comprehensive and detailed assessment of the size and distribution of health problems in Singapore. It is the first local study to use disability-adjusted life years (DALYs) to quantify the total disease burden. METHODS The SBoD study applied the methods developed for the original Global Burden of Disease study to data ...

Arthritis is Australia’s major cause of disability and chronic pain. In Australian women, osteoarthritis is the third leading cause of years lost due to disability. Osteoporosis affects nearly two million Australians. The Federal government acknowledged the importance of musculoskeletal diseases by designating arthritis and musculoskeletal diseases as the seventh National Health Priority. This ...

OBJECTIVES To project the number of people aged 45-64 years with lost productive life years (PLYs) due to diabetes and related costs (lost income, extra welfare payments, lost taxation revenue); and lost gross domestic product (GDP) attributable to diabetes in Australia from 2015 to 2030. DESIGN A simulation study of how the number of people aged 45-64 years with diabetes increases over time ...