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Global Burden of Leptospirosis: Estimated in Terms of Disability Adjusted Life Years.

PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, 2015
BackgroundLeptospirosis, a spirochaetal zoonosis, occurs in diverse epidemiological settings and affects vulnerable populations, such as rural subsistence farmers and urban slum dwellers.
Paul R Torgerson, José E Hagan, Federico Costa, Juan Calcagno, Michael Kane, Martha S Martinez-Silveira, Marga G A Goris, Claudia Stein, Albert I Ko, Bernadette Abela-Ridder   +9 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
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What are Disability-Adjusted Life Years? [PDF]

European Journal of Public Health, 2013
The Disability-Adjusted Life Year or DALY is a summary measure of public health widely used to quantify burden of disease. In the DALY philosophy, every person is born with a certain number of life years potentially lived in optimal health. People may lose these healthy life years through living with illness and/or through dying before a reference life
N Praet, B Devleesschauwer, P Dorny, L Duchateau, N Speybroeck   +4 more
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Comparative analysis of disease burden in Sichuan Province in 2010 and 2020 based on disability-adjusted life years

Shanghai yufang yixue, 2023
ObjectiveTo analyze the disease burden in Sichuan Province in 2010 and 2020， and to provide reference for disease prevention and control.MethodsMonitoring data on causes of death in Sichuan Province in 2010 and 2020 were collected.
WEN Xiaoyan, GUO Huimin, JIANG Wenlan, CHEN Li   +3 more
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The burden of tuberculosis disease in women, Colombia 2010-2018

Infectio, 2023
Objective: to estimate disability-adjusted life years in women attributable to tuberculosis in Colombia 2010-2018. Methods: A retrospective descriptive study was conducted.
Laura Plata-Casas
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The direct disease burden of COVID-19 in Belgium in 2020 and 2021

BMC Public Health, 2023
Background Burden of disease estimates have become important population health metrics over the past decade to measure losses in health. In Belgium, the disease burden caused by COVID-19 has not yet been estimated, although COVID-19 has emerged as one of
Brecht Devleesschauwer, Lander Willem, Jure Jurčević, Pierre Smith, Aline Scohy, Grant M. A. Wyper, Sara Monteiro Pires, Nina Van Goethem, Philippe Beutels, Nicolas Franco, Steven Abrams, Dieter Van Cauteren, Niko Speybroeck, Niel Hens, Robby De Pauw   +14 more
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Simple Analytics of Disability Adjusted Life Years (DALYS) [PDF]

SSRN Electronic Journal, 2014
Disability adjusted life years lost (DALYs) are one of the most usual health outcome metrics in environmental and health assessments and cost-effectiveness or cost/benefit analysis of interventions in those two areas. The methodology for DALYs' calculation has been evolving under the Global Burden of Disease Project.
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A narrative review on the burden of migraine: when the burden is the impact on people’s life

The Journal of Headache and Pain, 2019
Background The burden of headache disorders, and of migraine in particular, is multifaceted and fragmented. The aim of this narrative review is to provide a description the main topics underlying the concepts of burden and impact of migraine disorders ...
Matilde Leonardi, Alberto Raggi
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National Burden of Cancers in Tunisia: A Disability Adjusted Life-year Approach

Dr. Sulaiman Al Habib Medical Journal, 2020
Cancer places a considerable burden on society that is reflected in both economic and humanitarian costs. We aimed to estimate the disease burden of cancers in Tunisia using the Disability Adjusted Life Years (DALYs) as a health measure. We performed the
Houda Ben Ayed, Mohamed Hsairi, Sourour Yaich, Habib Feki, Jihene Jedidi, Raouf Karray, Mondher Kassis, Jamel Damak   +7 more
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Modeling Disability-Adjusted Life-Years for Policy and Decision Analysis. [PDF]

Med Decis Making
This study outlines methods for modeling disability-adjusted life-years (DALYs) in common decision-modeling frameworks. Recognizing the wide spectrum of experience and programming comfort level among practitioners, we outline 2 approaches for modeling DALYs in its constituent parts: years of life lost to disease (YLL) and years of life lived with ...
Leech AA, Zhu J, Peterson H, Martin MH, Ratcliff G, Garbett S, Graves JA.   +6 more
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