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Looking at the burden of disease via DALYs can reveal surprising things about a population's health. For example, the 1990 WHO report indicated that 5 of the 10 leading causes of disability were [[Mental illness|psychiatric conditions]]. [[Psychiatry|Psychiatric]] and [[Neurology|neurologic]] conditions account for 28% of all years lived with disability, but only 1.4% of all deaths and 1.1% of years of life lost. Thus, psychiatric disorders, while traditionally not regarded as a major [[epidemiology|epidemiological]] problem, are shown by consideration of disability years to have a huge impact on populations.
 
Looking at the burden of disease via DALYs can reveal surprising things about a population's health. For example, the 1990 WHO report indicated that 5 of the 10 leading causes of disability were [[Mental illness|psychiatric conditions]]. [[Psychiatry|Psychiatric]] and [[Neurology|neurologic]] conditions account for 28% of all years lived with disability, but only 1.4% of all deaths and 1.1% of years of life lost. Thus, psychiatric disorders, while traditionally not regarded as a major [[epidemiology|epidemiological]] problem, are shown by consideration of disability years to have a huge impact on populations.
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Figures for 2004 in the UK show that [[mental illness]] accounted for more disability adjusted life years lost per year than any other health condition in the UK and that 20% of the total burden of disease was attributable to mental illness (including suicide), compared with 16.2% for cardiovascular diseases and 15.6% for cancer. No other condition exceeded 10%.<<ref> UK Dept of Health (2009) New Horizons in Mental Health <ref/> [http://www.dh.gov.uk/prod_consum_dh/groups/dh_digitalassets/@dh/@en/documents/digitalasset/dh_109708.pdf Link to pub]
   
 
== Social weighting ==
 
== Social weighting ==

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Disability-adjusted life year for all causes per 100,000 inhabitants in 2004.[1]

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The disability-adjusted life year (DALY) is a measure of overall disease burden, expressed as the number of years lost due to ill-health, disability or early death. Originally developed by Harvard University for the World Bank in 1990, the World Health Organization subsequently adopted the method in 2000. The DALY is becoming increasingly common in the field of public health and health impact assessment (HIA). It "extends the concept of potential years of life lost due to premature death...to include equivalent years of ‘healthy’ life lost by virtue of being in states of poor health or disability."[2] In so doing, mortality and morbidity are combined into a single, common metric.

Traditionally, health liabilities were expressed using one measure: (expected or average number of) Years of Life Lost (YLL). This measure does not take the impact of disability into account, which can be expressed by: Years Lived with Disability (YLD). DALYs are calculated by taking the sum of these two components. In a formula:

DALY = YLL + YLD.[3]

The DALY relies on an acceptance that the most appropriate measure of the effects of chronic illness is time, both time lost due to premature death and time spent disabled by disease. One DALY, therefore, is equal to one year of healthy life lost. Japanese life expectancy statistics are used as the standard for measuring premature death, as the Japanese have the longest life expectancies.[4]

Looking at the burden of disease via DALYs can reveal surprising things about a population's health. For example, the 1990 WHO report indicated that 5 of the 10 leading causes of disability were psychiatric conditions. Psychiatric and neurologic conditions account for 28% of all years lived with disability, but only 1.4% of all deaths and 1.1% of years of life lost. Thus, psychiatric disorders, while traditionally not regarded as a major epidemiological problem, are shown by consideration of disability years to have a huge impact on populations.

Figures for 2004 in the UK show that mental illness accounted for more disability adjusted life years lost per year than any other health condition in the UK and that 20% of the total burden of disease was attributable to mental illness (including suicide), compared with 16.2% for cardiovascular diseases and 15.6% for cancer. No other condition exceeded 10%.<Cite error: Closing </ref> missing for <ref> tag

W = 0.1658 Y e-0.04 Y[5]

Where Y is the age at which the year is lived and W is the value assigned to it relative to an average value of 1.

In these studies future years were also discounted at a 3% rate, so that a weighted year of life saved next year is worth 97% of a year of life saved this year.

The effects of the interplay between life expectancy and years lost, discounting, and social weighting are complex, depending on the severity and duration of illness. For example, the parameters used in the GBD 1990 study generally give greater weight to deaths at any year prior to age 39 than afterward, with the death of a newborn weighted at 33 DALYs and the death of someone aged 5–20 weighted at approximately 36 DALYs.[6]

Examples by country

Australia

Cancer (25.1/1,000), cardiovascular (23.8/1,000), mental problems (17.6/1,000), neurological (15.7/1,000), chronic respiratory (9.4/1,000) and diabetes (7.2/1,000) are the main causes of good years of expected life lost to disease or premature death.[7]

PTSD rates for the 25 most populous countries

A table comparing the PTSD DALY rates for the world's 25 most populous countries may be found in the Epidemiology section of the Wikipedia Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) article. Comparison of this rate across these countries makes clear that the region of the world most impacted by PTSD is Asia.

History and usage

The DALY was first conceptualized by Murray and Lopez in work carried out with the World Health Organization and the World Bank known as the global burden of disease study, which was published in 1990. It is now a key metric employed by the United Nations World Health Organization in such publications as its Global Burden of Disease

See also

References

  1. (2009). WHO Disease and injury country estimates. World Health Organization. URL accessed on Nov. 11, 2009.
  2. (2002). Death and DALY estimates for 2004 by cause for WHO Member States: Persons, all ages. (xls) World Health Organization. URL accessed on 2009-11-12.
  3. (August 2007)Methodological choices for calculating the disease burden and cost-of-illness of foodborne zoonoses in European countries.
  4. Menken M, Munsat TL, Toole JF. The Global Burden of Disease Study - Implications for Neurology. Arch Neurol. 2000;57:418-420
  5. The Global Burden of Disease concept. WHO.
  6. Mathers, Colin D. et al. (2007-11). Measuring the Burden of Neglected Tropical Diseases: The Global Burden of Disease Framework. PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases.
  7. (November 2008)The Health of the People of New South Wales (summary report).

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