OBJECTIVE To estimate the extent of early retirement and to examine risk factors for voluntary early retirement and disability pension in a cohort of nurses' aides. DESIGN Register study including baseline questionnaire and register data covering all transfer incomes from 1991 to 2008 in a cohort of nurses' aides established in 1993 with a follow-up period of 15 years. SETTING Nurses' aides...

Type II diabetes mellitus accounts for 90% of all cases of diabetes, and its inclusion in health evaluation has shown that its complications have a considerable impact on the population's quality of life. The current article presents the results of the Global Burden of Disease Study in Brazil for the year 1998, with an emphasis on diabetes mellitus and its complications. The indicator used was ...

BACKGROUND The epidemic of HIV/AIDS and treatments that have emerged to alleviate, have brought about a shift in the burden of disease from death to quality of life/disability. The aim was to determine which factors are associated with improvements in the level of health of male and female patients with HIV/AIDS in Andalusia, in terms of disability-adjusted life years. METHODS Descriptive stu...

OBJECTIVE To measure the economic burden of diabetes in Argentina by age, gender and region for the year 2005, in disability-adjusted life years (DALYs). METHODS DALYs were estimated by the sum of years of life lost due to premature death (YLL) and years of life lived with disability (YLD). RESULTS In the population studied (20 to 85 years), the burden of diabetes without complications was ...

Tobacco use is a well-established risk factor for many types of cancers. Recent data on selected cancer incidence and mortality related to smoking in the Indonesian population are provided in this study. Morbidity and mortality data were derived from GLOBOCAN 2012 and the population attributable fraction (PAF) was estimated using the standard methodology developed by the World Health Organizati...

OBJECTIVE Deaths by external causes represent one of the most important challenges for public health and are the second cause of death in Brazil. The aim of this study was to analyze differentials in mortality by external causes according to race/skin color. METHODS A descriptive study was carried out in Salvador, Northeastern Brazil, using 9,626 cases of deaths by external causes between 199...

Background: Remarkably, one of the main causes in different societies affecting increases in years of life lost due to premature death (YLL) is death due to road traffic injuries (RTIs), which usually occurs at an earlier age in life. Objectives: This study aimed to determine the trends of YLL due to road traffic injuries in Kermanshah Province during the years 2009 2014. Methods: This study re...