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Disability-adjusted life years (DALYs) are a measure of overall disease burden, expressed as the number of years lost due to ill-health, disability, or early death.It was developed in the 1990s as a way of comparing the overall health and life expectancy of different countries.
While it is claimed that schizophrenia occurs at similar rates worldwide, its prevalence and incidence varies across the world, [4] within countries, [5] and at the local and neighborhood level. [6] It causes approximately 1% of worldwide disability-adjusted life years (DALYs). [7]
The connection between lack of WASH and burden of disease is primarily one of poverty and poor access in developing countries: "the WASH-attributable mortality rates were 42, 30, 4.4 and 3.7 deaths per 100 000 population in low-income, lower-middle income, upper-middle income and high-income countries, respectively."
"Global, regional, and national disability-adjusted life years (DALYs) for 306 diseases and injuries and healthy life expectancy (HALE) for 188 countries, 1990–2013: quantifying the epidemiological transition" 2013: August 2015: The Lancet "Maintenance dialysis throughout the world in years 1990 and 2010" 2010: July 2015: JASN
Country DALY rate 1 Indonesia: 321.870 2 Philippines: 317.079 3 Thailand: 315.533 4 Malaysia: 314.199 5 Sri Lanka: 312.278 6 Brunei: 312.101 7 Singapore: 311.872 8 Tuvalu: 287.660 9 Laos: 287.175 10 Uzbekistan: 286.942 11 Marshall Islands: 284.733 12 Burma: 281.795 13 Papua New Guinea: 281.681 14 Kyrgyzstan: 279.941 15 Iraq: 279.362 16 Samoa ...
This is a list of countries by risk of premature death from non-communicable disease such as cardiovascular disease, cancer, diabetes, or chronic respiratory disease between ages 30 and 70 as published by the World Health Organization in 2008. Measuring the risk of dying from target NCDs is important to assess the extent of burden from ...
The data/colour given for the following former countries were assigned as follows: "Serbia and Montenegro": Serbia, Montenegro; The following groupings/assumptions were made: France includes the overseas departments as well as overseas collectivities. The United Kingdom includes the Crown dependencies as well as the overseas territories.
English: Age-standardised disability-adjusted life year (DALY) rates from Inflammatory heart diseases by country (per 100,000 inhabitants). Note from WHO data: " Includes myocarditis, pericarditis, endocarditis and cardiomyopathy.