BACKGROUND The Disability-Adjusted Life Year (DALY) was designed by the World Health Organization (WHO) to measure, compare, and analyze the burden of various diseases. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first study on the assessment of burden of traumatic spinal fracture (TSF) in an Iranian community. We estimated burden of TSF includes both isolated (iTSF) and associated injuries relat...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the costs and health outcomes associated with primary care use by Indigenous people with diabetes in remote communities in the Northern Territory. DESIGN, SETTING AND PARTICIPANTS A population-based retrospective cohort study from 1 January 2002 to 31 December 2011 among Indigenous NT residents ≥ 15 years of age with diabetes who attended one of five hospitals or 54 remo...

Introduction: Alcohol use is one of the main preventable risk factors affecting mortality and premature disability. Objective: To describe the estimates of mortality and years of life lost as a result of premature death (YLL) due to cirrhosis, liver cancer, and disorders attributed to alcohol use in Brazil and its federated units in 1990 and 2015. Methods: Descriptive study using data from ...

BACKGROUND Dementia and care need are challenging aging populations worldwide. Lower extremity injury (LEI) in the elderly makes matters worse. Using a multi-state approach, we express the effect of LEI on dementia, care need, and mortality in terms of remaining life expectancy at age 75 (rLE) and years of life lost (YLL). METHODS A population-based random sample of beneficiaries aged 75-95 y...

OBJECTIVES To compare the mortality in those previously hospitalised for mental disorder in Scotland to that experienced by the general population. DESIGN Population-based historical cohort study using routinely available psychiatric hospital discharge and death records. SETTING All Scotland. PARTICIPANTS Individuals with a first hospital admission for mental disorder between 1986 and 200...

Estudo ecológico com base em dados secundários do estudo Global Burden of Disease 2019 (GBD) sobre mortalidade materna por hemorragia que analisa as tendencias da carga de doença dos anos vividos deficiência (YLD) e vida perdidos (YLL) síndromes hemorrágicas maternas no Brasil Ceará 1990 a 2019. Métodos: utilizou-se os filtros: distúrbios maternos/hemorragia materna; localização (Brasil-Ceará);...

Introdução: Os anos de vida perdidos ajustados por incapacidade (DALY), conhecido como carga doença, mensuram o impacto uma doença na população. O câncer pulmão está entre as principais causas no mundo. Objetivo: Analisar a tendência dos em pessoas com diagnóstico Florianópolis, período 2008 2012. Métodos: Foi realizado um estudo ecológico dados do Sistema Informações sobre Mortalidade para est...

BACKGROUND This paper initially describes premature mortality by Aboriginality in South Australia during 1999 to 2006. It then examines how these outcomes vary across area level socio-economic disadvantage and geographic remoteness. METHODS The retrospective, cross-sectional analysis uses estimated resident population by sex, age and small areas based on the 2006 Census, and Unit Record morta...