BACKGROUND Ideally, the distribution of research funding for different types of cancer should be equitable with respect to the societal burden each type of cancer imposes. These burdens can be estimated in a variety of ways; "Years of Life Lost" (YLL) measures the severity of death in regard to the age it occurs, "Disability-Adjusted Life-Years" (DALY) estimates the effects of non-lethal disabi...

BACKGROUND The Global Burden of Disease (GBD) study has provided a conceptual and methodological framework to quantify and compare the health of populations. AIM The objective of the study was to assess the national burden of disease in the population of Qatar using the disability-adjusted life year (DALYs) as a measure of disability. METHODS We adapted the methodology described by the Worl...

To estimate the burden of disease population between 10-24 years old enrolled in SER JOVEN program a Colombian insurance company using disability-adjusted life-years (DALYs). Incidences were estimated from administrative claims data Mutual EPS. The ICD-10 codes main diagnosis identified and regrouped according to categories diseases reported global (GBD) study. life lost (YLL), difference age d...

Objective: To estimate the economic impact of the introduction of heptavalent pneumococcal conjugate vaccine (PCV7) in high risk populations of Colombia. Methods: A full economic evaluation was done regarding potential introduction of PCV-7. A cost-effectiveness study from the perspective of the third payer was done using a Decision Model. The model considered two alternatives: with and without...

OBJECTIVE To provide a multidisciplinary and comprehensive analysis on the impact of tuberculosis (TB) in a high incidence country. METHODS Data from several large scale surveys, carried out between 1997 and 2001 in the Philippines, were used to: (1) perform a burden of disease (BoD) analysis, (2) model the economic costs to society due to lost wages, and (3) determine the clinical outcomes, ...

We address the problem of discovering trends in text databases. Trends can be used, for example, to discover that a company is shifting interests from one domain to another. We are given a database V of documents. Each document consists of one or more text fields and a timestamp. The unit of text is a word and a phrase is a list of words. (We defer the discussion of more complex structures till...

Objective: To verify the time trends of mortality rates, years of lost life (YLL), and years lived with disability (YLD) caused by cerebrovascular disease in Brazil between 1990 and 2015. Methods: The estimates from the Global Burden of Diseases 2015 were used to analyze the magnitude and trends of mortality rates and disability-adjusted life years (DALY) for cerebrovascular disease (ICD-10: ...

OBJECTIVE To assess the impact of major trauma on individual and population health. METHODS Data from a regional trauma registry were used, including all trauma fatalities and nonfatal severely injured patients (injury severity score >15) in 1999 and 2000. The impact of fatalities was expressed in terms of years of life lost (YLL). The impact of severe injury on survivors was expressed in ter...

BACKGROUND This study attempted to measure the environmental burden of disease by examining mortality and disability rates in South Korea, permitting international comparisons. METHODS Disability-adjusted life years (DALY) was used to analyze data from public records. Years of life lost (YLL) and years lost to disability (YLD) were measured in terms of incidence rate and number of deaths. Att...

BACKGROUND In the last decade of the 20th century, a considerable effort has been put into the development of summary measures of population health that combine information on mortality and non-fatal health outcomes. We used the DALYs (Disability adjusted life years) method to assess the burden of disease and injury in the population of Serbia. METHODS Our study, largely based on the methods ...