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Global, regional, and national burden of tobacco-related neurological disorders from 1990 to 2021: Trends and future projections

Tobacco Induced Diseases
Introduction Tobacco use is as a major public health concern around the world, adversely impacting quality of life. Our study aims to analyze the trends in the burden of tobacco-related neurological disorders (ND) at global, regional, and national levels
Chenyang Zhang, Zhihan An, Jixuan Jiang, Jingyi Ge, Wanqiong Huang, Jialin Pei, Yiyao Liu, Jiayu Yao, Zirui Guo, Xuanxi Liu, Yanhui Cui   +10 more
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Calculating disability-adjusted life years to quantify burden of disease

International Journal of Public Health, 2014
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
Devleesschauwer, Brecht, Havelaar, Arie H, Maertens de Noordhout, Charline, Haagsma, Juanita A, Praet, Nicolas, Dorny, Pierre, Duchateau, Luc, Torgerson, Paul R, Van Oyen, Herman, Speybroeck, Niko   +9 more
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Global, regional, and national burdens of pertussis among adults: a systematic analysis of age-specific trends using Global Burden of Diseases 2021 data

Infectious Diseases of Poverty
Background Despite the high coverage of childhood vaccination, pertussis remains a significant global health challenge, with increasing adult cases attributed to waning immunity and enhanced diagnostic capability.
Kangguo Li, Jiadong Wu, Ruixin Zhang, Yulun Xie, Zecheng Zhou, Qi Yin, Qi Chen, Jia Rui, Xuhua Guan, Zeyu Zhao, Tianmu Chen   +10 more
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Calculating disability-adjusted-life-years lost (DALYs) in discrete-time [PDF]

Cost Effectiveness and Resource Allocation, 2013
Disability-adjusted-life-years lost (DALYs) is a common outcome metric for cost-effectiveness analyses, and the equations used for such calculations have been presented previously by Fox-Rushby and Hanson (see, e.g., "Health Policy and Planning 16:326-331, 2001").
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Global, regional, and national prevalence, disability adjusted life years, and time trends for refraction disorders, 1990–2019: findings from the global burden of disease study 2019 [PDF]

, 2021
Heyan Li, Yueming Liu, Li Dong, Ruiheng Zhang, Wen‐Da Zhou, Haotian Wu, Yifan Li, Ya Xing Wang, Wenbin Wei   +8 more
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Quantifying the impact of frequent diseases and syndromes on calf health using the opinions of producers and veterinarians: Toward dairy calf disability weights

Journal of Dairy Science
: The first objective of this study was to quantify the impact and disability weight (DW) of frequent diseases or syndromes of preweaning dairy calves using the perceptions of producers and veterinarians.
Jean Silva Ramos, Marianne Villettaz Robichaud, Jocelyn Dubuc, Débora Santschi, Jean-Philippe Roy, Gilles Fecteau, Sébastien Buczinski   +6 more
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Deriving disability weights for the Netherlands: findings from the Dutch disability weights measurement study

Population Health Metrics
Background The aims of this study were to establish national disability weights based on the health state preferences of a Dutch general population sample, examine the relation between results and respondent’s characteristics, and compare disability ...
Juanita A. Haagsma, Periklis Charalampous   +1 more
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Incidence, Mortality, and Burden of Malaria and Its Geographical Distribution in Iran during 2002-2015

Iranian Journal of Public Health, 2019
Background: This study aimed at estimating the incidence, mortality, burden, and geographical distribution of malaria between 2002 and 2015 in Iran. Methods: DALYs index was used to estimate the burden of malaria.
Bakhtiar PIROOZI, Ghobad MORADI, Hossein SAFARI, Leila FARAJI, Sima SADI, Cyrus ALINIA, Ahmad RAEISI   +6 more
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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 (DALYs) for Injuries Using Death Certificates and Hospital Discharge Survey by the Korean Burden of Disease Study 2012 [PDF]

, 2016
Won Kyung Lee, Dohee Lim, Hyesook Park
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