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Burden of non-communicable diseases in Cyprus, 1990–2017: findings from the Global Burden of Disease 2017 study
database descriptive study using the Global Burden of Disease (GBD) 2017 results on NCD s for Cyprus from 1990 to 2017. We calculated the percentage change of age-standardized DALY rates between 1990 and ...
Recommendations to plan a national burden of disease study
Union-Health Information System (EU- HIS). It has done so by raising awareness of the concept, the methods used to calculate estimates and their potential implications and uses in policymaking. The BoD approach ...
Conducting national burden of disease studies in small countries in Europe– a feasible challenge?
studies use disability-adjusted life years (DALY s) as a population health metric to quantify the years of life lost due to morbidity and premature mortality for diseases, injuries and risk factors ...
Risk factors and their contribution to population health in the European Union (EU-28) countries in 2007 and 2017
using secondary data from the GBD 2017 Results Tool. For the EU-28 and each country, attributable (all-cause) age-standardized death and DALY rates, and summary exposure values are reported. Results In ...
Burden of foodborne diseases: think global, act local
input for policy. We describe the current knowledge base on burden of FBD s, highlight examples of well-established studies, and how results have been used for decision-making. We discuss challenges in ...
The burden of legionnaires' disease in Belgium, 2013 to 2017.
National Institute for Health and Disability Insurance and mortality data from the Belgian statistical office were used. To arrive at an estimate of the total number of symptomatic cases in Belgium, we ...
Adjusting for comorbidity in incidence-based DALY calculations: an individual-based modeling approach
tracking their disease history, including possible comorbidities, over time. Methods We demonstrated the IBM approach using an example of external comorbidity, i.e., colon cancer comorbid with ...
Reflections on key methodological decisions in national burden of disease assessments
health measures Years lived with disability Years of life lost Abstract: Background Summary measures of population health are increasingly used in different public health reporting systems for setting ...
The burden of legionnaires’ disease in Belgium, 2013 to 2017
Belgian statistical office were used. To arrive at an estimate of the total number of symptomatic cases in Belgium, we defined a surveillance pyramid and estimated a multiplication factor to account for LD ...
Population vulnerability to COVID-19 in Europe: a burden of disease analysis
COVID-19 by using estimates of population age structure and YLD for health conditions linked to severe illness from COVID-19. Methods Population and YLD estimates from GBD 2017 were extracted for 45 ...