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Tuberculosis Disability Adjusted Life Years, Colombia 2010–2018

Tropical Medicine and Infectious Disease, 2022
Estimating the burden of tuberculosis disease is relevant for assessing and identifying population health status and progress in policies and programs aimed at epidemic control.
Laura Plata-Casas, Oscar Gutierrez-Lesmes, Favio Cala-Vitery   +2 more
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Measuring Trends in Disability-adjusted Life Years and Life Expectancy in Korea: 2008 to 2021 [PDF]

Journal of Preventive Medicine and Public Health
Objectives: This study, part of the ongoing Korean National Burden of Disease (KNBD) updates, assesses disability-adjusted life years (DALYs) and disability-adjusted life expectancy (DALE) in Korea, taking into account the effects of coronavirus disease ...
Chung-Nyun Kim, Dawit Urgi Gurmu, Young-Eun Kim, Yoon-Sun Jung, Yongseok Choi, Minsu Ock, Seok-Jun Yoon   +6 more
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Disability-adjusted life years for respiratory syncytial virus in children under 2 years [PDF]

BMC Public Health, 2020
Background Respiratory syncytial virus infection is the leading cause of bronchiolitis in Colombia. There is growing evidence about the impact of Respiratory syncytial virus on society in terms of years of life lost due to this condition.
Juana Patricia Sánchez Villamil, Fernando P. Polack, Jefferson Antonio Buendía   +2 more
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Does the Health Kuznets Curve hypothesis hold for Saudi Arabia? A quantile ARDL analysis of disability-adjusted life years and their burden components [PDF]

Frontiers in Public Health
Even though the drivers of public health have been extensively investigated, there is a lack of evidence on what contributes to the public health burden in developing countries.
Ousama Ben-Salha, Mehdi Abid, Nasareldeen Hamed Ahmed Alnor, Nasareldeen Hamed Ahmed Alnor   +3 more
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Disability-adjusted life years associated with COVID-19 in Brazil, 2020. [PDF]

PLoS ONE
BackgroundWe quantified the national- and state-level burden of COVID-19 in Brazil and its states during 2020 and contrasted it to the burden from other causes of disease and injury.MethodsWe used national surveillance data on COVID-19 cases ...
Cleber Vinicius Brito Dos Santos, Lara Esteves Coelho, Guilherme Tegoni Goedert, Paula Mendes Luz, Guilherme Loureiro Werneck, Daniel Antunes Maciel Villela, Cláudio José Struchiner   +6 more
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The burden of COVID-19 based on disability-adjusted life years: a systematic review of available evidence [PDF]

Frontiers in Public Health
BackgroundThe present study tries to evaluate and summarize the available evidence to provide insights into the COVID-19 burden worldwide using disability-adjusted life years (DALYs) and compare the level of damage across countries during this pandemic ...
Eshagh Barfar, Behzad Raei, Salman Daneshi, Fatemeh Bagher Barahouei, Kiavash Hushmandi   +4 more
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Estimating the Years of Life Lost and Mortality Caused By COVID-19 in Mashhad, the Second-Largest City in Iran [PDF]

Journal of Fasting and Health, 2022
Introduction: The disability-adjusted life years (DALY) may provide a better indicator of the burden of disease than mortality. This study provides the estimates of both Years of Life Lost (YLL) and COVID-19 mortality in Mashhad.
Majid Khadem-rezaiyan, Maryam Saberi-Karimian, Atieh Kamel Khodabandeh, Hamideh Safarian-Bana, Ehsan Mousa Farkhani, Mahdi Gholian, Zahra Abasalti, Maryam Mohammadi Bajgiran, Gordon Ferns, Habibollah Esmaily, Majid Ghayour-Mobarhan   +10 more
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Is the Use of DALYs and QALYs Ethically Permissible in Triage Decisions? COVID-19 and Equity Considerations from a Queer-Crip Perspective

Ethic@: an International Journal for Moral Philosophy, 2023
This paper explores the symbolic and material implications of the use of DALYs and QALYs as priority or tie-breaker criteria in triage decisions. It aims to answer the question of their ethical permissibility based on the particular case of the COVID-19
Lautaro Leani, Ignacio Mastroleo
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Burden of maternal disorders in China from 1990 to 2019: Analysis of the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019

The Lancet Regional Health. Western Pacific, 2021
Background: Efforts to quantify the burden of maternal disorders at the national and provincial levels are valuable for resource allocation and for development and adoption of public health policies. Methods: Following the methods of the Global Burden of
Liyuan Han, Jingjing Liu, Peng Yin, Ting Cai, Maigeng Zhou   +4 more
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Disability-Adjusted Life Years: A Critical Review [PDF]

Journal of Health Economics, 1997
Abstract The disability-adjusted life year (DALY) has emerged in the international health policy lexicon as a new measure of the ‘burden of disease ‘. The conceptual framework for DALYs is described and justified in the paper ‘Quantifying the burden of disease: the technical basis for disability-adjusted life years ‘ (Murray 1994 ...
Anand, S, Hanson, K
openaire   +4 more sources