Abstract Nicole Hassoun’s book Global Health Impact: Extending Access to Essential Medicines has three parts. Part 1 is about the right health, 2 offers a concrete proposal for how promote ability of people in developing world live minimally good lives and 3 concerned with consumer responsibility as it relates global health. I argue that there philosophical tension between respective projects P...

BACKGROUND In young Chinese men of the highland immigrant population, chronic mountain sickness (CMS) is a major public health problem. The aim of this study was to measure the disease burden of CMS in this population. METHODS We used disability-adjusted life years (DALYs) to estimate the disease burden of CMS. Disability weights were derived using the person trade-off methodology. CMS diagno...

BACKGROUND Although diet is related to chronic disease risk and mortality, its association with total disease burden is not clear. OBJECTIVE We investigated the minimum impact of different dietary patterns on disability-adjusted life years (DALYs) by using individual longitudinal data. DESIGN A prospective cohort study was conducted in 33,066 healthy men and women aged 20-70 y recruited int...

OBJECTIVE To calculate the effect of using two different sets of disability weights for estimates of disability-adjusted life-years (DALYs) averted by interventions delivered in one hospital in India. METHODS DALYs averted by surgical and non-surgical interventions were estimated for 3445 patients who were admitted to a 106-bed private hospital in a semi-urban area of northern India in 2012-2...

Schistosoma parasites are disease-producing trematodes, or ‘‘blood flukes’’, that infect an estimated 207 million people worldwide [1]. Although schistosomes are common in the developing world, their role in human disease and disability is not widely appreciated, even by tropical medicine and health policy specialists [2]. A disability analysis reported by Finkelstein and colleagues in this edi...

This study assesses the burden of dengue hemorrhagic fever (DHF) and effectiveness of an intervention package in Myanmar. Disability adjusted life years (DALYs) lost for fatal and non-fatal DHF cases and DALYs averted due to intervention for DHF from 1970-1997 were estimated. The data are based on reported cases and deaths from DHF extracted from annual reports of the Myanmar vector borne disea...

BACKGROUND Tick-borne encephalitis (TBE) presents an increasing burden in many parts of Europe, Asian Russia, Siberia, Asian former USSR and Far East. Incidence can be considered as one way to express the burden. A more comprehensive measure concerns disability-adjusted life years (DALYs), better characterizing the full burden of TBE. TBE burden in DALYs has not yet been estimated, nor has it b...

Following the 1990 Global Burden of Disease (GBD) study, Disability-Adjusted Life Years (DALYs) have been used widely to quantify the population health burden of diseases and to prioritise and evaluate the impact of specific public health interventions. In the context of the recent release of the 2010 GBD study, we explore the novel use of DALYS to determine health-based targets (HBTs). As with...

Cancer causes a significant deterioration in health and premature death and is a national socioeconomic burden. This study aimed to measure the burden of cancer using the disability-adjusted life year (DALY) metric based on the newly adopted methodology from the Global Burden of Disease Study in 2010. This study was conducted based on data from the Korean National Cancer Registry. The DALYs wer...