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...

BACKGROUND: By the dawn of the third millennium, non communicable diseases are sweeping the entire globe, with an increasing trend in developing countries where, the transition imposes more constraints to deal with the double burden of infective and non-infective diseases in a poor environment characterised by ill-health systems. By 2020, it is predicted that these diseases will be causing seve...

the advancement in the healthcare systems, stringent interventions for infectious diseases and improved diet has significantly shifted the patterns of morbidities, and consequently hereditary and congenital anomalies (ca) and non-communicable diseases (ncds) have emerged as the most common causes of morbidity and mortality. in pakistan, there is no systematic health surveillance system to asses...

Nowadays, chronic non-communicable diseases have become a significant social problem of healthcare which threatens human health along with their rapid progress of morbidity and mortality. How to develop potential, intangible resources to compensate for insufficient physical resources is urgent. By analyzing literature reporting the association between social capital and chronic non-communicable...

OBJECTIVE The paper identifies the relative amount of research devoted to non-communicable disease in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). DESIGN A bibliometric analysis of a subset of journals published in LMICs was performed. MEASUREMENTS Seventy-six peer-reviewed journals focused on general medicine or public health published in 46 LMICs and indexed from 1998 to 2003 in MEDLINE. A t...

BACKGROUND Since 1990 non communicable diseases and injuries account for the majority of death and disability-adjusted life years in Latin America. We analyzed the relationship between the global burden of disease and Randomized Clinical Trials (RCTs) conducted in Latin America that were published in the five leading medical journals. METHODOLOGY/PRINCIPAL FINDINGS We included all RCTS in hum...

OBJECTIVE Iran as a developing country is in the transition phase, which might have a big impact on the Burden of Disease and Injury (BOD). This study aims to estimate Burden of Disease and Injury (BOD) in Iran up to 2025 due to four broad cause groups using Disability-Adjusted Life Year (DALY). METHODS The impacts of demographic and epidemiological changes on BOD (DemBOD and EpiBOD) were ass...