The burden of disease is a measurement of the gap between a population’s current health and the optimal state where all people attain full life expectancy without suffering major ill-health.
Burden of disease analysis enables decision makers to identify the most serious health problems facing a population.
Loss of health in populations is measured in disability-adjusted life years (DALYs), which is the sum of years of life lost due to premature death and years lived with disability.
Burden of disease analysis enables decision makers to identify the most serious health problems facing a population.
Loss of health in populations is measured in disability-adjusted life years (DALYs), which is the sum of years of life lost due to premature death and years lived with disability.