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 +14 more
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The Drug Problem and Organized Crime, Illicit Financial Flows, Corruption and Terrorism [PDF]
, 2017 An estimated quarter of a billion people, or around 5 per cent of the global adult population, used drugs at least once in 2015. Even more worrisome is the fact that about 29.5 million of those drug users, or 0.6 per cent of the global adult population ...
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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
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Living in interesting times - Challenging protein metabolism in the era of the epidemiological shift [PDF]
, 2016 The recently released results of the Global Burden of Disease, Injuries, and Risk Factor study 2013 reveal that during the past 23 years, metabolic and behavioral risk factors, including high BMI, increased their impact on global mortality and disability-
Laviano, Alessandro
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A software tool for estimation of burden of infectious diseases in Europe using incidence-based disability adjusted life years [PDF]
, 2017 The burden of disease framework facilitates the assessment of the health impact of diseases through the use of summary measures of population health such as Disability- Adjusted Life Years (DALYs). However, calculating, interpreting and communicating the
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3. Calculating disability adjusted life years [PDF]
New South Wales Public Health Bulletin Supplementary Series, 1900 This chapter introduces the formula used for calculating a DALY and its components. The calculations and formulae are not essential to assessing the effort and time involved in conducting the study, as most of the effort is expended in the data collation and processing stage before the formulae are applied.
Doug Lincoln, David Muscatello
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The relation between non-occupational physical activity and years lived with and without disability [PDF]
, 2008 Objectives: The effects of non-occupational physical activity were assessed on the number of years lived with and without disability between age 50 and 80 years.
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Perspectives in Clinical Research, 2017 Background: India continues to contribute disproportionately to the global burden of disease and public health research output from India is also known to be not commensurate with her healthcare needs.
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Genetically Encoded Calcium Indicators: A New Tool in Renal Hypertension Research [PDF]
, 2019 Hypertension is ranked as the third cause of disability-adjusted life-years. The percentage of the population suffering from hypertension will continue to increase over the next years.
Schleifenbaum, Johanna, Zhong, Cheng
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