AIM To estimate the change in years of life lost (YLL) due to gastric cancer mortality after correcting for misclassification in registering causes of death using the Bayesian method. BACKGROUND For evaluating the health status of a country and determining priority of risk factors, some epidemiologic indicators are needed. Due to premature death, YLL is one of the most widely used indicators....

MANY PUBLIC HEALTH OFFIcials and organizations have tried to warn the public about the dangers of obesity. One of the strongest warnings came from the US surgeon General who stated that a failure to address overweight and obesity “could wipe out some of the gains we’ve made in areas such as heart disease, several forms of cancer, and other chronic health problems.” For a health message to be ef...

the upper 95% confidence limits for the predicted average years of life lost (YLL) per capita were inadvertently changed to negative numbers. The corrected table is presented below. Table 3. Estimated impact, by region, of coal-fired power stations on PM emissions and YLL over the lifetime of a cohort of adults > 30 years of age: GAINS model versus AR model.

Introduction: The emerging and evolving situation of Coronavirus disaese-2019 (COVID-19) threatens the health all human beings. This study aims to measure mortality rate years life lost (YLL) due premature death caused by COVID-19 in Iran, Ahvaz Jundishapur University Medical Sciences. Materials Methods: In this study, definite deaths were used. First, descriptive analysis, including mean stand...

backgroundthe years of life lost (yll) due to cancer can be a more illustrative index. to promote preventive and therapeutic services, this study aimed to investigate the childhood cancer mortality and its trend over the past few years in yazd to provide planners with baseline data. material and method data obtained from death registration system of the healthcare center were used to calculate ...

BACKGROUND A core function of local health departments is to conduct health assessments. The analysis of death certificates provides information on diseases, conditions, and injuries that are likely to cause death - an important outcome indicator of population health. The expected years of life lost (YLL) measure is a valid, stand-alone measure for identifying and ranking the underlying causes ...

BACKGROUND Assessing the burden of disease contributes towards evidence-based allocation of limited health resources. However, such measures are not yet commonly available in Vietnam. Taking advantage of the FilaBavi Demographic Surveillance Site (FilaBavi DSS) in Vietnam, this study aimed to establish the feasibility of applying the Years of Life Lost (YLL) technique in the context of a define...

Limited evidence is available on the association between temperature and years of life lost (YLL). We applied distributed lag non-linear model to assess the nonlinear and delayed effects of temperature on YLL due to cause-/age-/education-specific mortality in Guangzhou, China. We found that hot effects appeared immediately, while cold effects were more delayed and lasted for 14 days. On average...

BACKGROUND Yunnan province is located in south western China and is one of the poorest provinces of the country. This study examines the premature mortality burden from common causes of deaths among an urban region, suburban region and rural region of Kunming, the capital of Yunnan. METHODS Years of life lost (YLL) rate per 1,000 and mortality rate per 100,000 were calculated from medical dea...

1 Acknowledgements The work in this thesis 1 is a part of the OtaOnline research project at the Helsinki University of Technology. I would like to take the opportunity to thank all those who have contributed to the work. First, I would like to express my gratitude to my supervisor Prof. Shosta Sulonen for all his support, guidance, constructive criticism and ideas. I would also like to thank my...