نتایج جستجو برای: disability adjusted life years dalys

تعداد نتایج: 1695456  

2015
Nisarat Songprasert Thitiporn Sukaew Khanitta Kusreesakul Witaya Swaddiwudhipong Chantana Padungtod Kanitta Bundhamcharoen Paul B. Tchounwou

The cadmium (Cd) contaminated rice fields in Mae Sot District, Tak Province, Thailand has been one of the major environmental problems in Thailand for the last 10 years. We used disability adjusted life years (DALYs) to estimate the burden of disease attributable to Cd in terms of additional DALYs of Mae Sot residents. Cd exposure data included Cd and β2-microglobulin (β2-MG) in urine (as an in...

Journal: :Bulletin of the World Health Organization 1999
C D Mathers E T Vos C E Stevenson S J Begg

An overview of the results of the Australian Burden of Disease (ABD) study is presented. The ABD study was the first to use methodology developed for the Global Burden of Disease study to measure the burden of disease and injury in a developed country. In 1996, mental disorders were the main causes of disability burden, responsible for nearly 30% of total years of life lost to disability (YLD),...

2014
Séverine Henrard Brecht Devleesschauwer Philippe Beutels Michael Callens Frank De Smet Cedric Hermans Niko Speybroeck

BACKGROUND Haemophilia is a rare hereditary haemorrhagic disease that requires regular intravenous injections of clotting factor (CF) concentrates. This study sought to estimate the health and economic burden of haemophilia in Belgium. This is the first study of its type to be conducted, and reflects the Belgian authorities' growing interest for haemophilia as part of their priority planning fo...

Journal: :Archives of Iranian medicine 2017
Chante Karimkhani Robert P Dellavalle Seyed M Karimi Vafa Rahimi-Movaghar Farshad Pourmalek Aliasghar A Kiadaliri Mohammad Ali Sahraian Gholamreza Roshandel Seyed Mohammad Fereshtehnejad Mostafa Qorbani Amir Radfar Maryam S Farvid Hamid Asayesh Sadaf G Sepanlou Shirin Djalalinia Amir Kasaeian Jagdish Khubchandani Reza Malekzadeh Maziar Moradi-Lakeh Kristopher J Krohn Ali H Mokdad Theo Vos Mohsen Naghavi

BACKGROUND Iran and its neighboring countries represent four world regions with unique cultures and geography. Skin diseases span a wide diversity of etiologies including infectious, inflammatory, autoimmune, vascular, neurogenic, and oncologic. The Global Burden of Disease Study (GBD) 2015 measures the burden from skin diseases in 195 countries. METHODS Epidemiologic data were collected from...

Journal: :South African medical journal = Suid-Afrikaanse tydskrif vir geneeskunde 2007
Michelle Schneider Rosana Norman Neila Steyn Debbie Bradshaw

OBJECTIVES To estimate the burden of disease attributed to low fruit and vegetable intake by sex and age group in South Africa for the year 2000. DESIGN The analysis follows the World Health Organization comparative risk assessment (CRA) methodology. Population-attributable fractions were calculated from South African prevalence data from dietary surveys and applied to the revised South Afric...

Journal: :international journal of preventive medicine 0
maziar moradi-lakeh sareh shakerian abdoulreza esteghamati

in children. although its burden is considerably preventable by vaccine, routine vaccination against hib has not been defined in the national immunization program of iran. this study was performed to assess the cost-benefit and cost‑utility of running an hib vaccination program in iran. methods: based on a previous systematic review and meta‑analysis for vaccine efficacy, we estimated the avert...

2008
Robert E Black Lindsay H Allen Zulfiqar A Bhutta Laura E Caulfield Mercedes de Onis Majid Ezzati Colin Mathers Juan Rivera

Maternal and child undernutrition is highly prevalent in low-income and middle-income countries, resulting in substantial increases in mortality and overall disease burden. In this paper, we present new analyses to estimate the effects of the risks related to measures of undernutrition, as well as to suboptimum breastfeeding practices on mortality and disease. We estimated that stunting, severe...

2014
Anderson Rocha-Buelvas Elizabeth Trujillo-Montalvo Carlos Hidalgo-Patiño Angela Hidalgo-Eraso

OBJECTIVE This study sought to measure burden of disease and identifies health priorities from the Disability Adjusted Life Years (DALYs) indicator. METHODS This is the first study on burden of disease for a department in Colombia by using a standardized methodology. By using the. DALYs indicator, burden of disease was identified in the department of Nariño according to the guidelines establi...

2010
Suzanne Polinder Juanita A Haagsma Hidde Toet Marco JP Brugmans Ed F van Beeck

BACKGROUND Injury is the major cause of death and suffering among children and adolescents, but awareness of the problem and political commitment for preventive actions remain unacceptably low. We have assessed variation in the burden of injuries in childhood and adolescence in eight European countries. METHODS Hospital, emergency department, and mortality databases of injury patients aged 0-...

Journal: :Clinics (Sao Paulo, Brazil) 2008
Andreia Ferreira Oliveira Joaquim Gonçalves Valente Iuri Costa Leite

INTRODUCTION Smoking is one of the main risk factors for morbidity and mortality. An estimated 59 million (4.4%) disability-adjusted life years were lost due to smoking throughout the world in 2000. OBJECTIVE To estimate the disease burden attributable to smoking in the State of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, for the year 2000. METHODS Based on estimates of smoking prevalence and relative death ri...

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