...world in 2000. DALYs along with healthy life expectancy are summary measures of population health.1113 One DALY can be thought of as one lost year of "healthy"...burden of disease as a measurement of the gap between the current health of a population and an ideal situation where everyone in the population lives into...

...in 2001. DALYs along with healthy life expectancy are summary measures of population health.13- 14 One DALY can be thought of as one lost year of "healthy"...burden of disease as a measurement of the gap between the current health of a population and an ideal situation where everyone in the population lives to...

...combine years of life lost (YLLs) through premature death with years lived with disability (YLDs) (1). One DALY can be thought of as one lost year of "healthy" life and the measured disease burden is the gap between a population's health status and that of a normative global...

...information on the impact of premature death and of disability and other non-fatal health outcomes. One DALY can be thought of as one lost year of "healthy"...lives into old age free of disease and disability' (Murray, Lopez, Mathers & Stein, 2002: 2). Table 2.3 shows the leading causes of DALYs for Europe and...

...that productive years lost in mid-life are more important than years lost at very young or old ages.) One DALY can be thought of as one lost year of healthy life. Thus, if a person lives with a moderate disability for 10 years, this might equate to five DALYs or...

...disease burden in the world. Using a metric called disability-adjusted life years (DALYs), in which a DALY can be thought of as one lost year of healthy life, WHO has calculated the global burden of disease and injury that is attributable to different causes...

...based on the current mortality rates and prevalence distribution of health states in the population. 4. One DALY can be thought of as one lost year of "healthy"...burden of disease as a measurement of the gap between the current health of a population and an ideal situation where everyone in the population lives into...

...Factors. It developed the concept of disability adjusted life years, and defined die burden of disease as the gap between current health status and an ideal...lives into old age free of disease and disability (burden of disease). GOFFMAN, ERVING (1922-82) Canadian sociologist in the symbolic interactionist...

...to be lived in full health) lost as a result of the incidence of specific diseases and injuries (2). One DALY can be thought of as one lost year of healthy life and the burden of disease as a measure of the gap between current health status and an ideal situation where everyone lives into old...

...integrated measure of mortality and disability, combining mortality and morbidity in a single measure. One DALY can be thought of as one lost year of "healthy"...lives into old age free of disease and disability. DM Reid, CG Miller (eds.), Clinical Trials in Rheumatoid Arthritis and Osteoarthritis, 249 © Springer-...