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Standardised reporting of burden of disease studies: the STROBOD statement
study in the 1990s, has become a cornerstone for population health monitoring. Despite the widespread use of the Disability-Adjusted Life Year (DALY) metric, variations in methodological approaches and ...
Methodological choices in brucellosis burden of disease assessments: A systematic review
disability weights. The rest used a simplified singular health state approach. Wide variation was seen in the duration chosen for brucellosis, ranging from 2 weeks to 4.5 years, irrespective of the whether ...
Burden of disease methods: A guide to calculate COVID-19 Disability-Adjusted Life Years
countries, with wide variation in incidence and infection fatality rates [4]. Understanding and quantifying the combined impact of morbidity and mortality is a key step to standardizing comparisons across ...
Conducting national burden of disease studies in small countries in Europe– a feasible challenge?
face unique challenges such as difficulty to ensure sample representativeness, variations in prevalence estimates especially for rarer diseases, existence of a substantial proportion of non-residents ...
Global burden of cancer and coronary heart disease resulting from dietary exposure to arsenic, 2015
indicate that, globally, each year the combined DALY s for all cancers attributable to inorganic arsenic in food are approximately 1.4 million with variation in global distribution based on population and ...