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BMC Medical Research Methodology, 2012 Background Disability-adjusted life years (DALYs) link data on disease occurrence to health outcomes, and they are a useful aid in establishing country-specific agendas regarding cancer control.
Soerjomataram Isabelle +6 more
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Estimation of disability weight for paragonimiasis: a systematic analysis
Infectious Diseases of Poverty, 2018 Background Paragonimiasis, caused by helminths of the genus Paragonimus spp., is a neglected tropical disease. Human suffering from paragonimiasis is often misunderstood and its quantification by the disability weight of the disability-adjusted life ...
Yun Feng +3 more
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SSM: Population Health, 2023 Objectives: We aimed to analyze the secular trends in mesothelioma burden, the effect of age, period, and birth cohort, and project the global burden over time. Material and methods: Based on the mesothelioma incidence, mortality, and Disability-Adjusted
Wenmin Zhu +4 more
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Disability-adjusted life years lost due to diabetes in France, Italy, Germany, Spain, and the United Kingdom: a burden of illness study [PDF]
, 2015 To compare the burden of disease (BoD) attributable to diabetes expressed in disability-adjusted life years (DALYs) for five European countries in ...
Darbà, Josep +6 more
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Mental health spillovers and the Millennium Development Goals: The case of perinatal depression in Khayelitsha, South Africa [PDF]
, 2012 Mental illness currently ranks among the top ten causes of burden of disease in low-income countries. In the African region specifically, neuropsychiatric disorders account for approximately 5% of disability-adjusted life years lost, with nearly one ...
Tomlinson, Mark, Tsai, Alexander C.
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BMC Cancer, 2022 Background Cancer is the major cause of morbidity and mortality worldwide. The cancer burden varies within the regions of India posing great challenges in its prevention and control.
Vaitheeswaran Kulothungan +9 more
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How to allocate scarce health resources without discriminating against people with disabilities [PDF]
, 2016 One widely used method for allocating health care resources involves the use of cost-effectiveness analysis (CEA) to rank treatments in terms of quality-adjusted life-years (QALYs) gained.
John, Tyler M. +2 more
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The global burden of neglected zoonotic diseases: Current state of evidence
One Health, 2023 The majority of emerging infectious diseases are zoonoses, most of which are classified as “neglected”. By affecting both humans and animals, zoonoses pose a dual burden.
Carlotta Di Bari +12 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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Cross-national agreement on disability weights: the European Disability Weights Project
Population Health Metrics, 2003 Background Disability weights represent the relative severity of disease stages to be incorporated in summary measures of population health. The level of agreement on disability weights in Western European countries was investigated with different ...
Burström Kristina +3 more
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