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Disease burden is the impact of a health problem as measured by financial cost, mortality, morbidity, or other indicators. It is often quantified in terms of quality-adjusted life years (QALYs) or disability-adjusted life years (DALYs). Both of these metrics quantify the number of years lost due to disability (YLDs), sometimes also known as ...
The Global Burden of Disease Study (GBD) is a comprehensive regional and global research program of disease burden that assesses mortality and disability from major diseases, injuries, and risk factors. GBD is a collaboration of over 3600 researchers from 145 countries. [ 1 ]
The male-female health survival paradox, also known as the morbidity-mortality paradox or gender paradox, is the phenomenon in which female humans experience more medical conditions and disability during their lives, but they unexpectedly live longer than males. [ 1 ][ 2 ] This paradox, where females experience greater morbidity (diseases) but ...
Mortality rate of countries, deaths per thousand. Mortality rate, or death rate,[1]: 189, 69 is a measure of the number of deaths(in general, or due to a specific cause) in a particular population, scaled to the size of that population, per unit of time. Mortality rate is typically expressed in units of deaths per 1,000 individuals per year ...
Life table. In actuarial science and demography, a life table (also called a mortality table or actuarial table) is a table which shows, for each age, the probability that a person of that age will die before their next birthday ("probability of death "). In other words, it represents the survivorship of people from a certain population. [ 1 ]
Compression of morbidity. The compression of morbidity in public health is a hypothesis put forth [1] by James Fries, professor of medicine at Stanford University School of Medicine. The hypothesis was supported by a 1998 study of 1700 University of Pennsylvania alumni over a period of 20 years. [2]
Case fatality rate. In epidemiology, case fatality rate (CFR) – or sometimes more accurately case-fatality risk – is the proportion of people who have been diagnosed with a certain disease and end up dying of it. Unlike a disease's mortality rate, the CFR does not take into account the time period between disease onset and death.
Standardized mortality ratio. The standardized mortality ratio is the ratio of observed deaths in the study group to expected deaths in the general population. [2] This ratio can be expressed as a percentage simply by multiplying by 100. [citation needed] The SMR may be quoted as either a ratio or a percentage.