Burden of disease analysis provides a fuller assessment of population health beyond just mortality rates. It considers the impact of morbidity and estimates the effects of years lived with illness or disability. Common measures used in burden of disease analysis include disability-adjusted life years (DALYs) and quality-adjusted life years (QALYs), which combine mortality and morbidity into a single metric. Calculating DALYs and QALYs involves defining health states, assigning weights to different states, and combining estimates of life expectancy and duration of illness. Burden of disease analysis is useful for comparing population health over time and between regions, identifying major health problems, and informing health policy and resource allocation decisions.
Burden of disease and determinants of healthDrZahid Khan
This document discusses burden of disease and its determinants from a population perspective. It defines key concepts like prevalence, incidence, standardized mortality rates, life expectancy, disability-adjusted life years (DALYs), and quality-adjusted life years (QALYs). DALYs are used to measure overall disease burden by combining years of life lost due to premature mortality and years lived with disability. The document outlines different types of determinants that influence burden of disease at the population level, including lifestyle, healthcare, environment, and human biology. It stresses the importance of focusing interventions on determinants that have the largest potential to reduce disease burden based on their prevalence in the population and strength of causal effect.
Incidence and prevalence measures provide information about disease frequency and burden in populations. Prevalence describes the proportion of people with a disease at a point in time, while incidence refers to the number of new cases that develop over time. Both measures can be stratified by person, place, and time to gain insights into a disease's pathogenesis and development.
This document discusses epidemiological methods for studying the distribution and determinants of health events and applying that knowledge to disease control. It defines descriptive epidemiology as the study of disease occurrence, distribution, and patterns in populations. Descriptive methods are observational and can be cross-sectional or longitudinal. Descriptive epidemiology provides insights into disease frequency, trends, and risk factors to inform public health planning and resource allocation.
This document provides an overview of measuring the burden of disease. It discusses the evolution of summary measures of population health, including health expectancies like HALE and QALE, and health gaps like DALYs. The Global Burden of Disease study is introduced, which developed the DALY measure. DALYs combine years of life lost to premature mortality and years lived with disability. The document explains how DALYs are calculated, including incorporating social values through disability weights, age weights, and time discounting. Criticisms of the GBD methodology and DALY measure are also summarized.
This document discusses global disease burden and methods for measuring and comparing the impacts of different diseases. It introduces the Global Burden of Disease database developed by Harvard University to assess overall health loss from diseases, injuries, and risk factors using metrics like disability-adjusted life years (DALYs). DALYs consider both years of life lost due to premature mortality and years lost due to disability. The document provides examples of DALY calculations and shows data on leading causes of death and disease burden globally and in different country income levels. It discusses trends over time in life expectancy, causes of death, and population growth.
This document provides information about disability adjusted life years (DALYs), including:
- Background on the development of DALYs by researchers at Harvard University and WHO.
- Key components and principles of calculating DALYs such as years of life lost (YLL) and years lived with disability (YLD).
- Formulas and examples for calculating DALYs that incorporate factors like standard life expectancy, age weights, discount rates, and disability weights.
- Estimated DALYs for leading causes of disease burden worldwide and for Bangladesh from the 1990 Global Burden of Disease study.
This document provides an overview of basic measurements used in epidemiology. It discusses tools like proportion, rate, and ratio. It also covers various measures of mortality like crude death rate, specific death rate, and proportional mortality rate. Measures of morbidity like incidence and prevalence are explained. The relationship between incidence and prevalence is described. Standardization techniques are introduced to make rates comparable between populations.
Burden of disease and determinants of healthDrZahid Khan
This document discusses burden of disease and its determinants from a population perspective. It defines key concepts like prevalence, incidence, standardized mortality rates, life expectancy, disability-adjusted life years (DALYs), and quality-adjusted life years (QALYs). DALYs are used to measure overall disease burden by combining years of life lost due to premature mortality and years lived with disability. The document outlines different types of determinants that influence burden of disease at the population level, including lifestyle, healthcare, environment, and human biology. It stresses the importance of focusing interventions on determinants that have the largest potential to reduce disease burden based on their prevalence in the population and strength of causal effect.
Incidence and prevalence measures provide information about disease frequency and burden in populations. Prevalence describes the proportion of people with a disease at a point in time, while incidence refers to the number of new cases that develop over time. Both measures can be stratified by person, place, and time to gain insights into a disease's pathogenesis and development.
This document discusses epidemiological methods for studying the distribution and determinants of health events and applying that knowledge to disease control. It defines descriptive epidemiology as the study of disease occurrence, distribution, and patterns in populations. Descriptive methods are observational and can be cross-sectional or longitudinal. Descriptive epidemiology provides insights into disease frequency, trends, and risk factors to inform public health planning and resource allocation.
This document provides an overview of measuring the burden of disease. It discusses the evolution of summary measures of population health, including health expectancies like HALE and QALE, and health gaps like DALYs. The Global Burden of Disease study is introduced, which developed the DALY measure. DALYs combine years of life lost to premature mortality and years lived with disability. The document explains how DALYs are calculated, including incorporating social values through disability weights, age weights, and time discounting. Criticisms of the GBD methodology and DALY measure are also summarized.
This document discusses global disease burden and methods for measuring and comparing the impacts of different diseases. It introduces the Global Burden of Disease database developed by Harvard University to assess overall health loss from diseases, injuries, and risk factors using metrics like disability-adjusted life years (DALYs). DALYs consider both years of life lost due to premature mortality and years lost due to disability. The document provides examples of DALY calculations and shows data on leading causes of death and disease burden globally and in different country income levels. It discusses trends over time in life expectancy, causes of death, and population growth.
This document provides information about disability adjusted life years (DALYs), including:
- Background on the development of DALYs by researchers at Harvard University and WHO.
- Key components and principles of calculating DALYs such as years of life lost (YLL) and years lived with disability (YLD).
- Formulas and examples for calculating DALYs that incorporate factors like standard life expectancy, age weights, discount rates, and disability weights.
- Estimated DALYs for leading causes of disease burden worldwide and for Bangladesh from the 1990 Global Burden of Disease study.
This document provides an overview of basic measurements used in epidemiology. It discusses tools like proportion, rate, and ratio. It also covers various measures of mortality like crude death rate, specific death rate, and proportional mortality rate. Measures of morbidity like incidence and prevalence are explained. The relationship between incidence and prevalence is described. Standardization techniques are introduced to make rates comparable between populations.
This document discusses various measures used to quantify mortality and morbidity. It defines key terms like rates, ratios, proportions and describes different types of mortality and morbidity measures including crude death rates, cause-specific mortality rates, life expectancy, years of life lost, and others. It also discusses methods to adjust rates to account for factors like age and sex, and aggregate measures that combine mortality and morbidity data.
This presentation defines epidemiology and the theory of epidemiologic transition proposed by Abdel Omran. It explains that the epidemiologic transition is the process by which patterns of disease and mortality shift from infectious/parasitic diseases to degenerative and man-made diseases as a society develops. The theory outlines five stages: 1) pestilence and famine dominated by infectious diseases, 2) receding pandemics as sanitation and medicine improve, 3) increasing rates of degenerative diseases like heart disease and cancer, and 4) a delayed degenerative stage where life expectancy increases through medical advances but non-communicable diseases rise due to obesity and sedentary lifestyles. The presentation provides details on each stage, highlighting the Black
This document discusses various measures used to quantify drug use and outcomes in pharmacoepidemiological studies. It describes prevalence as the proportion of people with a disease or exposed to a drug at a given time. Incidence is the number of new cases within a time period, while incidence rate is the number of new cases per unit of person-time at risk. Drug use is commonly measured by the number of prescriptions, units of drug dispensed, defined daily doses which estimates average maintenance dose, and prescribed daily doses which is the average dose actually prescribed. Adherence is often measured through biological assays, pill counts, pharmacy records, and patient interviews.
Observingthedistributionofdiseaseorhealth related events in human population.
• Identify the characteristics with which the disease is associated.
• Basically 3 questions are asked who, when and where.
• Who means the person affected, where means the place and when is the time distribution.
The general shift from acute infectious and deficiency diseases characteristic of underdevelopment to chronic non-communicable diseases characteristic of modernization and advanced levels of development is usually referred to as the "epidemiological transition".
This document provides an introduction to epidemiology, including definitions of key terms, the history and scope of epidemiology, study designs, and methods of measuring disease frequency and distribution in populations. It defines epidemiology as the study of disease patterns in human populations and the application of this study to disease control. The summary discusses the origins of epidemiology in Hippocrates' work and its development through pioneers like John Graunt, William Farr, and John Snow. It also outlines common study designs like cross-sectional and longitudinal studies and how epidemiology is used to describe, analyze, and prevent disease.
Measurements of morbidity and mortality
At the end of the session, the students shall be able to
List the basic measurements in epidemiology
Select an appropriate tools of measurement
Measure morbidity & mortality
Perform standardization of rates
The document provides an overview of the concept of public health, its history and challenges. It discusses:
- The definition of public health as promoting health through organized community efforts like sanitation, disease control, health education and access to care.
- How the "great sanitary awakening" in the 19th century identified filth as a cause of disease, leading to a focus on cleanliness and prevention over reacting to outbreaks.
- The work of Edwin Chadwick who documented poor living conditions and their impact on health, and proposed sanitary reforms be addressed through engineering and public boards of health.
- The core functions of public health as assessment, policy development and assurance to collect data,
Epidemiology is the study and analysis of the patterns, causes, and effects of health and disease conditions in defined populations. It is the cornerstone of public health, and shapes policy decisions and evidence-based practice by identifying risk factors for disease and targets for preventive healthcare. Epidemiologists help with study design, collection, and statistical analysis of data, amend interpretation and dissemination of results (including peer review and occasional systematic review). Epidemiology has helped develop methodology used in clinical research, public health studies, and, to a lesser extent, basic research in the biological sciences
This document provides information on epidemiological study designs, including analytical studies, case-control studies, and cohort studies. It defines epidemiology as the study of health-related states in populations. Case-control studies look backward from the outcome to exposures, comparing cases to controls. Cohort studies follow groups over time to examine exposure-outcome relationships. The key difference is that cohort studies measure incidence while case-control studies measure odds ratios. Selection of appropriate study populations and controls is important to minimize biases.
This document outlines a presentation on clinical epidemiology. It begins with an introduction to clinical epidemiology, noting that it was introduced in 1938 as a "new basic science for preventive medicine" and shifted its focus to individual patients in the 1960s. The document then defines clinical epidemiology as "the science of making predictions about individual patients by counting clinical events in similar patients." It discusses why clinical epidemiology is important for clinical decision making and avoiding bias. The rest of the document outlines topics to be covered, including uses of clinical epidemiology, sensitivity and specificity, predictive values, ROC curve analysis, and likelihood ratios.
This document discusses different types of screening. It defines screening as searching for unrecognized disease through tests on apparently healthy people. The main types discussed are:
1. Mass screening tests entire populations, like tuberculosis screening, regardless of risk. It finds hidden diseases for treatment but not prevention.
2. High-risk screening selectively tests groups at higher risk, like screening babies if a family has Down's syndrome.
3. Multiphasic screening uses multiple tests on many people at once, combining tests, exams, and measurements to screen for several diseases simultaneously.
4. Multipurpose screening screens populations for more than one disease using multiple tests at the same time, like screening pregnant women for several
This document discusses various types of biases that can occur in epidemiological studies. It defines bias as systematic error that results in an incorrect estimate of the association between exposure and disease. Several types of biases are described, including selection bias, information bias, and confounding. Selection bias occurs when the study population is not representative of the target population and can arise from inappropriate definitions of eligibility, sampling frames, or follow-up. Information bias results from inaccurate or missing data.
This document provides an overview of key concepts in epidemiology. It defines epidemiology as the study of frequency, distribution, and determinants of diseases and health conditions in populations along with applying this study to disease prevention and health promotion. The document also describes the components of epidemiology, its history, scope, purpose, types (descriptive and analytic), basic assumptions, features, disease causation theories and models, the natural history of diseases, levels of disease prevention, and the infectious disease process.
This document discusses different measures of morbidity including frequency, duration, and severity. Frequency is measured by incidence and prevalence. Incidence refers to new cases in a defined time period, while prevalence refers to all current cases. Duration is measured by disability rate and severity by case fatality rate. The document provides definitions and formulas for calculating incidence rate, point prevalence, and period prevalence. It also discusses factors that influence prevalence and the relationship between incidence and prevalence.
Epidemiology is the study of disease distribution and determinants in populations. It aims to describe disease distribution, identify risk factors, and provide data to prevent and control disease. Key concepts include measuring disease frequency through rates, examining disease distribution by time, place and person, and identifying disease determinants and causes. Epidemiology is used to study disease trends over time, diagnose community health issues, plan and evaluate health services, assess individual disease risks, further the natural history of disease, and search for disease causes and risk factors.
Epidemiology is the study of disease distribution and determinants in populations. Descriptive epidemiology involves describing disease patterns, while analytical epidemiology tests hypotheses about disease determinants. A case-control study compares exposures in individuals with (cases) and without (controls) a disease to identify potential risk factors. It proceeds backwards from effect to cause by first identifying cases and then finding controls to measure past exposures, which are then analyzed using measures like odds ratios.
Epidemiology is the study and analysis of the patterns, causes, and effects of health, disease & production conditions in defined populations, in terms of space and temporality.
This document discusses the triple burden of disease faced by many developing countries. It describes the triple burden as the coexistence of infectious diseases, undernutrition, and emerging non-communicable diseases. Many countries now struggle with this combination of communicable diseases, malnutrition, and non-communicable diseases like heart disease and diabetes. Addressing this triple burden presents challenges for healthcare systems in developing nations. Risk factors like poverty, malnutrition, urbanization and changing lifestyles have contributed to the rise of non-communicable diseases.
This document provides information about Avipsha Sengupta's class project on Disability Adjusted Life Years (DALYs). It includes an acknowledgements section, table of contents, and abstract. The abstract indicates the project will discuss the origins and formulation of DALYs, their role in resource allocation and cost-effectiveness analysis, attempts to capture human disability, and their limitations as a health metric.
This document discusses several methods for measuring disease burden and health outcomes, including years of life lost (YLL), disability-adjusted life years (DALY), quality-adjusted life years (QALY), and healthy life expectancy. It provides definitions and formulas for calculating each method. For example, it states that one DALY represents the loss of 1 year in full health, and is calculated based on years of life lost due to premature mortality (YLL) and years lived with disability or less than full health (YLD).
This document discusses various measures used to quantify mortality and morbidity. It defines key terms like rates, ratios, proportions and describes different types of mortality and morbidity measures including crude death rates, cause-specific mortality rates, life expectancy, years of life lost, and others. It also discusses methods to adjust rates to account for factors like age and sex, and aggregate measures that combine mortality and morbidity data.
This presentation defines epidemiology and the theory of epidemiologic transition proposed by Abdel Omran. It explains that the epidemiologic transition is the process by which patterns of disease and mortality shift from infectious/parasitic diseases to degenerative and man-made diseases as a society develops. The theory outlines five stages: 1) pestilence and famine dominated by infectious diseases, 2) receding pandemics as sanitation and medicine improve, 3) increasing rates of degenerative diseases like heart disease and cancer, and 4) a delayed degenerative stage where life expectancy increases through medical advances but non-communicable diseases rise due to obesity and sedentary lifestyles. The presentation provides details on each stage, highlighting the Black
This document discusses various measures used to quantify drug use and outcomes in pharmacoepidemiological studies. It describes prevalence as the proportion of people with a disease or exposed to a drug at a given time. Incidence is the number of new cases within a time period, while incidence rate is the number of new cases per unit of person-time at risk. Drug use is commonly measured by the number of prescriptions, units of drug dispensed, defined daily doses which estimates average maintenance dose, and prescribed daily doses which is the average dose actually prescribed. Adherence is often measured through biological assays, pill counts, pharmacy records, and patient interviews.
Observingthedistributionofdiseaseorhealth related events in human population.
• Identify the characteristics with which the disease is associated.
• Basically 3 questions are asked who, when and where.
• Who means the person affected, where means the place and when is the time distribution.
The general shift from acute infectious and deficiency diseases characteristic of underdevelopment to chronic non-communicable diseases characteristic of modernization and advanced levels of development is usually referred to as the "epidemiological transition".
This document provides an introduction to epidemiology, including definitions of key terms, the history and scope of epidemiology, study designs, and methods of measuring disease frequency and distribution in populations. It defines epidemiology as the study of disease patterns in human populations and the application of this study to disease control. The summary discusses the origins of epidemiology in Hippocrates' work and its development through pioneers like John Graunt, William Farr, and John Snow. It also outlines common study designs like cross-sectional and longitudinal studies and how epidemiology is used to describe, analyze, and prevent disease.
Measurements of morbidity and mortality
At the end of the session, the students shall be able to
List the basic measurements in epidemiology
Select an appropriate tools of measurement
Measure morbidity & mortality
Perform standardization of rates
The document provides an overview of the concept of public health, its history and challenges. It discusses:
- The definition of public health as promoting health through organized community efforts like sanitation, disease control, health education and access to care.
- How the "great sanitary awakening" in the 19th century identified filth as a cause of disease, leading to a focus on cleanliness and prevention over reacting to outbreaks.
- The work of Edwin Chadwick who documented poor living conditions and their impact on health, and proposed sanitary reforms be addressed through engineering and public boards of health.
- The core functions of public health as assessment, policy development and assurance to collect data,
Epidemiology is the study and analysis of the patterns, causes, and effects of health and disease conditions in defined populations. It is the cornerstone of public health, and shapes policy decisions and evidence-based practice by identifying risk factors for disease and targets for preventive healthcare. Epidemiologists help with study design, collection, and statistical analysis of data, amend interpretation and dissemination of results (including peer review and occasional systematic review). Epidemiology has helped develop methodology used in clinical research, public health studies, and, to a lesser extent, basic research in the biological sciences
This document provides information on epidemiological study designs, including analytical studies, case-control studies, and cohort studies. It defines epidemiology as the study of health-related states in populations. Case-control studies look backward from the outcome to exposures, comparing cases to controls. Cohort studies follow groups over time to examine exposure-outcome relationships. The key difference is that cohort studies measure incidence while case-control studies measure odds ratios. Selection of appropriate study populations and controls is important to minimize biases.
This document outlines a presentation on clinical epidemiology. It begins with an introduction to clinical epidemiology, noting that it was introduced in 1938 as a "new basic science for preventive medicine" and shifted its focus to individual patients in the 1960s. The document then defines clinical epidemiology as "the science of making predictions about individual patients by counting clinical events in similar patients." It discusses why clinical epidemiology is important for clinical decision making and avoiding bias. The rest of the document outlines topics to be covered, including uses of clinical epidemiology, sensitivity and specificity, predictive values, ROC curve analysis, and likelihood ratios.
This document discusses different types of screening. It defines screening as searching for unrecognized disease through tests on apparently healthy people. The main types discussed are:
1. Mass screening tests entire populations, like tuberculosis screening, regardless of risk. It finds hidden diseases for treatment but not prevention.
2. High-risk screening selectively tests groups at higher risk, like screening babies if a family has Down's syndrome.
3. Multiphasic screening uses multiple tests on many people at once, combining tests, exams, and measurements to screen for several diseases simultaneously.
4. Multipurpose screening screens populations for more than one disease using multiple tests at the same time, like screening pregnant women for several
This document discusses various types of biases that can occur in epidemiological studies. It defines bias as systematic error that results in an incorrect estimate of the association between exposure and disease. Several types of biases are described, including selection bias, information bias, and confounding. Selection bias occurs when the study population is not representative of the target population and can arise from inappropriate definitions of eligibility, sampling frames, or follow-up. Information bias results from inaccurate or missing data.
This document provides an overview of key concepts in epidemiology. It defines epidemiology as the study of frequency, distribution, and determinants of diseases and health conditions in populations along with applying this study to disease prevention and health promotion. The document also describes the components of epidemiology, its history, scope, purpose, types (descriptive and analytic), basic assumptions, features, disease causation theories and models, the natural history of diseases, levels of disease prevention, and the infectious disease process.
This document discusses different measures of morbidity including frequency, duration, and severity. Frequency is measured by incidence and prevalence. Incidence refers to new cases in a defined time period, while prevalence refers to all current cases. Duration is measured by disability rate and severity by case fatality rate. The document provides definitions and formulas for calculating incidence rate, point prevalence, and period prevalence. It also discusses factors that influence prevalence and the relationship between incidence and prevalence.
Epidemiology is the study of disease distribution and determinants in populations. It aims to describe disease distribution, identify risk factors, and provide data to prevent and control disease. Key concepts include measuring disease frequency through rates, examining disease distribution by time, place and person, and identifying disease determinants and causes. Epidemiology is used to study disease trends over time, diagnose community health issues, plan and evaluate health services, assess individual disease risks, further the natural history of disease, and search for disease causes and risk factors.
Epidemiology is the study of disease distribution and determinants in populations. Descriptive epidemiology involves describing disease patterns, while analytical epidemiology tests hypotheses about disease determinants. A case-control study compares exposures in individuals with (cases) and without (controls) a disease to identify potential risk factors. It proceeds backwards from effect to cause by first identifying cases and then finding controls to measure past exposures, which are then analyzed using measures like odds ratios.
Epidemiology is the study and analysis of the patterns, causes, and effects of health, disease & production conditions in defined populations, in terms of space and temporality.
This document discusses the triple burden of disease faced by many developing countries. It describes the triple burden as the coexistence of infectious diseases, undernutrition, and emerging non-communicable diseases. Many countries now struggle with this combination of communicable diseases, malnutrition, and non-communicable diseases like heart disease and diabetes. Addressing this triple burden presents challenges for healthcare systems in developing nations. Risk factors like poverty, malnutrition, urbanization and changing lifestyles have contributed to the rise of non-communicable diseases.
This document provides information about Avipsha Sengupta's class project on Disability Adjusted Life Years (DALYs). It includes an acknowledgements section, table of contents, and abstract. The abstract indicates the project will discuss the origins and formulation of DALYs, their role in resource allocation and cost-effectiveness analysis, attempts to capture human disability, and their limitations as a health metric.
This document discusses several methods for measuring disease burden and health outcomes, including years of life lost (YLL), disability-adjusted life years (DALY), quality-adjusted life years (QALY), and healthy life expectancy. It provides definitions and formulas for calculating each method. For example, it states that one DALY represents the loss of 1 year in full health, and is calculated based on years of life lost due to premature mortality (YLL) and years lived with disability or less than full health (YLD).
This document discusses various indicators used to measure disability and population health, including life expectancy (LE), healthy life expectancy (HLE), disability-free life expectancy (DFLE), disability adjusted life years (DALY), and quality adjusted life years (QALY). It provides definitions and examples of how each indicator is calculated and what aspect of health it aims to capture. The key differences between DALY and QALY are noted.
This document discusses quality of life and methods for measuring it. It defines quality of life as an individual's perception of their position based on cultural and personal factors. It also discusses factors that influence health and the spectrum of health from disease to well-being. The document outlines different ways to measure quality of life, including questionnaires, indicators of morbidity and mortality, and instruments to assess domains like physical and mental health. It also explains methods like quality-adjusted life years (QALYs) and disability-adjusted life years (DALYs) that are used to evaluate disease burden and treatment effects on quality and length of life.
This document provides an overview of DALYs (Disability-Adjusted Life Years) and QALYs (Quality-Adjusted Life Years), which are measurements used to calculate the quality and quantity of life. DALYs measure overall disease burden in terms of years of life lost due to ill-health, disability or early death. QALYs measure effectiveness of treatments by combining quality and length of life. Both methods assign a weight between 0 and 1 to different health states, with 0 representing death and 1 representing perfect health. The document discusses the calculation and uses of DALYs and QALYs, and highlights some differences and criticisms of the approaches.
Morbidity has been defined as any departure, subjective or objective, from a state of physiological or psychological well-being. In practice, morbidity encompasses disease, injury, and disability.
-The GBD is an approach to global descriptive epidemiology.
-It is a systematic, scientific effort to quantify the comparative magnitude of health loss due to diseases, injuries, and risk factors by age, sex, and geographies for specific points in time.
-IHME serves as the coordinating centre for the GBD and affiliated projects.
This document discusses different ways of measuring health, including natural measurements like healthy days and quality-adjusted life years (QALYs) and disability-adjusted life years (DALYs). It describes how QALYs quantify both the quality and quantity of life by assigning weights between 0 and 1 to different health states. Methods for estimating these weights include rating scales, time trade-off, and standard gambling. The document also discusses instruments like the EQ-5D that are used to measure health-related quality of life and provide weights to calculate QALYs and QALY gains from interventions.
1) The document discusses methods for measuring disease burden at the global level, including life expectancy, mortality rates, and Disability-Adjusted Life Years (DALYs).
2) DALYs provide a single measure of overall disease burden that combines years of life lost due to premature mortality and years lived with disability or ill-health.
3) DALYs allow comparisons of health states and outcomes between populations and over time, and help inform priorities for health services, research, and planning.
The global burden of disease refers to the cumulative impact of illnesses, injuries, and risk factors on the health and well-being of populations worldwide. This comprehensive measure takes into account both fatal and non-fatal health outcomes and provides a holistic view of the challenges affecting communities.
Assessed through metrics such as Disability-Adjusted Life Years (DALYs), the global burden of disease considers the years of healthy life lost due to premature death and the years lived with disability. This approach enables policymakers and public health professionals to prioritize interventions and allocate resources effectively.
Understanding the global burden of disease is crucial for shaping health policies, designing preventive strategies, and addressing the most pressing health issues. It serves as a valuable tool for promoting health equity, guiding healthcare investments, and fostering collaboration on a global scale to alleviate the impact of diseases and improve overall well-being
“Health is a state of complete
physical, mental and social well being
and not merely the
absence
of disease or infirmity”.
It means adequate body weight, height and circumference as per age and gender with acceptable level of vision, hearing, locomotion or movements, acceptable levels of pulse rate, blood pressure, respiratory rate, chest circumference, head circumference.
The document discusses the Global Burden of Disease (GBD) study, which aims to quantify the health loss from diseases, injuries, and risk factors using the disability-adjusted life year (DALY) measure. The DALY combines years of life lost due to premature mortality and years lived with disability. The GBD 2010 study found that in 2010 there were 2.49 billion global DALYs, with 31.2% from non-fatal health outcomes and 68.8% from premature mortality. The burden of disease has shifted from communicable to noncommunicable diseases. The top causes of DALYs in 2010 were lower respiratory infections, ischemic heart disease, stroke, preterm birth complications, and road injury
Indicator is a variable which gives an indication of a given situation or a reflection of that situation.
Health Indicator is a variable, susceptible to direct measurement, that reflects the state of health of persons in a community.
Indicators help to measure the extent to which the objectives and targets of a programme are being attained.
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Concept of health and disease (concept and definition of health,well being, illness,sickness and disease; philosophy of health; concept and definition of disease; changing concepts of health; dimensions of health; spectrum of health; iceberg phenomenon of disease; responsibility for health: Individual, community, state and international) Concept of causation (germ theory of disease; epidemiological triad; multi-factorial
causation; web of causation; natural history of disease: pre-pathogenesis and pathogenesis phase)Determinants of health
Prevention, its levels in line with phases of disease concurrent to natural history Concept of modes of intervention in different levels of prevention Burden of disease (concept of burden of disease; measurements used in burden of disease: DALY, QALY, YLL, YLD) Indicators of Health (Concept and characteristics of health indicator; Different types of
mortality and morbidity indicators: mortality Indicators-crude death rate; age-specific death rate; infant mortality rate; maternal mortality rate and ratio; Morbidity indicators:
The document discusses various indicators used to measure health status and the progress of health programs. It defines health indicators as variables that can directly measure the health of a community. It classifies indicators into categories like mortality, morbidity, disability rates, and nutritional status. Examples are provided like infant mortality rate, life expectancy, and anthropometric measurements in children. Characteristics of good indicators and methods to measure health policy outcomes, quality of life, and socioeconomic factors are also summarized.
Global Burden of Diseases - Methodologiesvi research
The document discusses global burden of diseases metrics and methodologies. It provides historical context on global burden of disease studies, which began in the 1990s and are now conducted annually by an international consortium involving thousands of researchers. The document outlines various metrics used to measure burden of disease, including years of life lost, years lived with disability, and disability-adjusted life years. It also discusses methodologies for calculating disease incidence and prevalence, and risk factors.
This document discusses health indicators which are variables that can be directly measured to reflect the health status of a community. Good health indicators are valid, reliable, sensitive, specific and feasible. They are used to measure, describe and compare community health, identify health needs, plan health resources, and measure health successes. Examples of common health indicators discussed are mortality rates, morbidity rates, disability rates, and nutritional indicators. Specific indicators described in detail include crude death rate, life expectancy, infant mortality rate, and maternal mortality rate. Challenges with health indicators and ways to improve them are also outlined.
Sociology 2 concept of health and diseasemonaaboserea
This document provides an overview of key public health concepts including:
1. It defines community and compares urban versus rural communities, noting differences in social interaction and common health problems.
2. It outlines the stages in the development of concepts of health from supernatural to holistic models, including humoral, mechanical, biomedical, ecological, and psychosocial concepts.
3. It discusses definitions of health from the WHO and more recent perspectives, as well as how to assess individual health status using personal data, history, exams, and tests.
Ageing is an important physiological phenomenon faced by all living individuals that is multifactorial and complex. The causation is still a matter of controversy. There is a lack of consensus regarding the appropriate age of ageing, though most of the countries uses chronological ages.
This presentation is regarding active ageing that builds up framework that will help the elderly mass to live a disease free active life with active participation and security in life.
This presentation also describes the different challenges faced by the elderly population for active ageing.
Government of India has been working for the aged population and there has been a number of policies and programmes that are solely dedicated to the elderly masses that has been also described here.
The presentation begins with a brief history of how cancer epidemiology evolved, and what is the status at present. After describing the burden of the disease of cancer globally and in India, the presentation includes a brief description of Cancer causes and prevention including screening activities. It also talks about the national Cancer Registry Program, NPCDCS and NCCP.
This presentation gives a basic introduction to the field of health economics and includes important concepts like that of efficiency, equity, opportunity costs, demand and supply and also includes financial evaluation
Health in Indian Federal system consists of how the different health related responsibilities are being divided among centre, state and concurrent list for better administration and health care delivery in India.
This presentation is the continuation of the first part, which was all about the basics of program evaluation. This ppt contains slides describing the impact evaluation in details and also the logical framework is also explained with practical examples.
N.B: Please go through it, using slide view to use the animation effects.
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Burden of Disease Analysis
1. BURDEN OF DISEASE ANALYSIS
By: Sourav Goswami
Moderator: Dr Subodh S Gupta
MGIMS, Sevagram
2. WHY Burden of Disease
(BOD)????
For many years, population health was evaluated using
mortality-based indicators only. In other words, the health of
a population was determined by how many people died and
why – the causes and rates of death.
Although mortality-based indicators are useful, they do not
provide all the information necessary to assess the health of
a population or to compare the effectiveness of interventions
to protect or improve health . That is, they do not take into
consideration the effects of being ill, perhaps for many years,
before death or recovery.
Summary measures (BOD) provide a fuller account of the
health of a population because they include estimates of the
effects of morbidity as well as mortality.
3. FRAMEWORK
1. Definition of BOD
2. Understanding BOD
3. Uses & Effects of BOD
4. How to measure BOD?
5. HALY
6. DALY
7. QALY
8. India State-level Disease Burden Initiative
5. Burden DiseaseOf
- Abnormal condition affecting the body
- Pain, Dysfunction, Stress, Social Problem & Death
- Infectious and non-infectious causes
How Disease Holds US back
6. Definition of BOD
Burden of disease (BoD) is the burden
that a particular disease process has in a
particular area as measured by cost,
morbidity, and mortality.
It is quantified by so called summary
measures of population health (SMPH).
8. USES OF BOD
1. To compare population health across
communities and over time.
2. To provide a full picture of which diseases,
injuries and risk factors contribute the most to
poor health in a specific population, including
identification of the most important health
problems and whether they are getting better or
worse over time.
3. To assess which information or sources of
information are missing, uncertain, or of low
quality.
10. History of BOD
1940s: Concept of “Years of Life Lost”.
1971: Sullivan’s Index
1983: Quality Adjusted Life Expectancy (QALE).
1990: GBD study – DALYs.
1998: HeaLY
DALE, HALE, QALY, followed
11. How we measure the burden?
QUANTITY QUALITY
- Life expectancy (LE)
- Years of potential life lost (YPLL)
- Heath Adjusted Life Expectancy (HALE)
- QALY- quality
- DALY- Disability
80(LE) – 60(Age at death) = 20
i.e the no of healthy years lived
Eg, 50 years was healthy out of 60 years
12. Health-Adjusted Life Years (HALYs)
HALY are the population health summary measures
typically used in estimates of the burden of disease.
They measure the combined effects of mortality and
morbidity in populations, allowing for comparisons across
illnesses or interventions as well as between populations .
Two common approaches to measuring HALYs are
Disability-Adjusted Life Years (DALYs) and
Quality-Adjusted Life Years (QALYs).
13. Some basic facts regarding DALY &
QALY
Both DALYs and QALYs are based on the latest
available epidemiological data.
The data must be assessed for completeness
and diagnostic accuracy, and can be drawn
from a variety reportable disease registries, a
healthcare administration databases, censuses,
national and local surveillance data, autopsies,
hospital records, surveys (e.g., road safety,
institutional, house- hold or health surveys),
police records, death certificates and mortuary
records.
14. Some basic facts regarding DALY &
QALY
Regardless of whether DALYs, QALYs or some other
calculations of HALYs are measured, there are three steps
involved:
1. The health state or disease conditions associated with
a pathogen or disease analysed are defined and described
(morbidity);
2. Each health state described in step 1 is given a
weighted value, often called a Health-Related Quality
of Life (HRQL) value; and
3. The value of each health state is combined with
estimates of life expectancy (mortality) .
15. Disability-Adjusted Life Years
(DALYs)
One DALY can be thought of as one lost year of
"healthy" life.
The sum of these DALYs across the population, or
the burden of disease, can be thought of as a
measurement of the gap between current health
status and an ideal health situation where the
entire population lives to an advanced age, free
of disease and disability.
16. DALY
Standardized quantitative measure of the BOD
DALY = MORTALITY
(Years of life lost
due
to premature
death)
+ MORBIDITY
(The measure of all
non fatal disease effects
such as illness episodes
Or chronic disability)
19. Example of DALY
LE = 65yDied at
50 y
Born
0.5 0.2 0.6 0.3
2 yr 1 yr 5 yr
2 yr
MORBIDITY (DA)
0.5*2 +0.2*1 + 0.6*5 + 0.3*1
= 4.5 DALY
MORTALITY (LY)
LE Age at Death−
65 50 = 15 DALY−
So, DALY = 4.5 + 15 = 19.5
21. DALY
YLL = N X L
Where, N = No of deaths
L = Standard of life expectancy at age of death in years
On a population basis the YLLs for a given
age basically correspond to the number of
deaths for that given age multiplied by the
standard life expectancy at the age at
which death occurs
On an individual basis the YLLs for an individual
person correspond to the standard life expectancy
at the age at which death occurs.
YLL
22. DALY
YLD = I X DW X L
Where, I = No of incident cases
DW = Disability Weight
L = Ave. duration of case until remission or
death (years)
On an individual basis the basic formula for calculation of
YLDs is the following :
YLD = DW × L
23. Disability Weight
The term “disability” used broadly in BoD analyses refers to
departures from good or ideal health in any of the important
domains of health.
These include mobility, self-care, participation in usual activities,
pain and discomfort, anxiety and depression, and cognitive
impairment.
In some contexts, “health” is understood to mean “absence of
illness”, but in the context of BOD, health is given a broader
meaning. As well as implying the absence of illness, it also
means that there are no impairments or functional limitations
due to previous illness or injury.
Disability may be short-term or long-term. Eg, a day with a
common cold is a day with disability.
What is DISABILITY,
in the context of BOD???
24. How the concept of disability
weightage came into existence?
On one side, there are health conditions that
frequently cause significant disability or death,
while on the other side there are those conditions
that rarely cause death but may cause severe and/or
prolonged disability. The other health conditions
can cause severe disability but they occur late in life
and they are of shorter duration
Stroke
Down syndrome
Alzheimer’s disease
25. Disability Weight
Theses are used both in calculating DALY and QALY.
DW are used to represent the HRQL in DALYs based on
non- fatal heath outcomes as described in the ICD
Once a condition/disability is assigned a value on a scale
from 0 and 1, where 0 represents PERFECT HEALTH and
1 represents DEATH ( Note: This is the reverse of the
scale used for QALYs)
This dataset provides the disability weights for the 235
unique health states used to estimate nonfatal health
outcomes for the GBD 2015 study.
28. DALY
Other social values taken into consideration for calculating
DALY:
Discounting
Age-weighting
29. Age- Weighting
This approach favors young adults who are “productive”
in their communities and contributing to the economy,
leaving out the very young and older adults, who are
more dependent.
In the GBD study, a year of healthy life lived at younger
and older ages was weighted lower than for other ages.
In other words, the GBD study chose to value a year of
life in young adulthood more than a year in old age or
infancy.
30. Discounting
Studies have shown that people have preferences regarding
the moment at which death or disability occur.
People generally prefer a healthy year of life immediately, rather
than in the future, if given the choice.
The DALY measures the future stream of healthy years of life
lost due to each incident case of disease or injury.
Discounting health with time reflects the social preference of a
healthy year now, rather than in the future. To do this, the
value of a year of life is generally decreased annually by a
fixed percentage.
To estimate the net present value of years of life lost, the GBD study
applied a 3% time discount rate to YLL in the future.
With this discount rate, a year of healthy life gained 10 years from
now is worth 24% less than a year gained now.
31. Calculation of DALYs with discounting
and age weighting
If both age-weighting and discounting are applied, and
the years between the event and the life expectancy are
summed, the initially simple formulas for YLL( N X L) and
YLD ( I X DW X L) become more complicated (formula
for a single death).
These formulas have also been programmed into
calculation spreadsheet templates for DALYs that are
available at the WHO website
34. Quality-Adjusted Life Years
(QALYs)
QALY is a generic measure of disease burden, including both
the quality and the quantity of life lived.
It can measure both the effectiveness and Cost- effectiveness
of an intervention.
For example, QALYs can compare an intervention that can help
prolong life but has serious side effects (such as permanent
disability caused by radiation or chemotherapy for cancer), VS
an intervention that improves quality of life without prolonging it
(such a palliative pain management).
The measure can give an idea of how many extra months or
years of life of reasonable quality of health a person might gain
with each intervention
So, it can be used to determine where resources should be
allocated.
36. Understanding QALY
Length of life (years)
Quality
Of life
0
1
Dead
Perfect
Health
To calculate QALY, we multiply
“ Length of life” X “ Quality of Life”
39. Comparing TWO treatment
options
Length of life (years)
Quality
Of life
0
1
Dead
Perfect
Health
0.8
0.75
62
2 X 0.75
= 1.5 QALY
6 X 0.8
= 4.8 QALY
So, QALY gain = 3.3 ( 4.8 − 1.5 )
Old T/T
New T/t
40. DALY
It is an absolute
measure used to
compare disease
burden in
populations.
The goal is to
minimize the “bad”
of gaps in health.
DALYs use disability
weights (0=perfect
health and 1=death)
QALY
It is used to analyse
clinical
interventions.
The goal is to
maximize the
“good” of quality of
life.
QALYs use utility
weights (0 = death
and = perfect health)
41. Critics of DALY & QALY
Discriminates against young and the
old(DALY)
No Male-Female difference in length of
life(DALY)
Discounting future health outcomes(DALY)
Doesn’t help determine the right
intervention (DALY + QALY)
Does not assess qualitative difference in
outcomes (DALY + QALY)
42. DALE
Disability Adjusted Life Expectancy
DALE integrates data on
Mortality
Long – term institutionalization
Activity limitations
Measures Quality and Quantity of life
A set of weights is assigned to four states of
health
no activity limitations
activity limitations in leisure activities or transportation
activity limitations at work, home and/or school
institutionalization in a health care facility
43. HALE
Health Adjusted Life Expectancy
Health-adjusted life expectancy is the number of years in
full health that an individual can expect to live given the
current morbidity and mortality conditions.
Health-adjusted life expectancy uses the Health Utility
Index (HUI) to weigh years lived in good health higher
than years lived in poor health.
Measure of quantity and quality of life
44. India State-level Disease Burden
Initiative
The State-level Disease Burden Initiative in India was launched
in October 2015 as a collaboration between ICMR, PHFI,
Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) and a
number of other key stakeholders in India, including academic
experts and institutions, government agencies and other
organizations.
This Initiative is expected to contribute substantially in
development of appropriate health policy debate through
production of reliable state-level estimates of disease burden
and risk factors, as well as improvement of systems to produce
these estimates on an ongoing basis to monitor changing
trends at the local levels.
The state-level disease burden estimates in India are
part of the Global Burden of Disease (GBD) study.
45. To Sum Up
The GBD study is the most comprehensive and
consistent set of estimates of morbidity and
mortality by age, sex and region.
DALY quantify burden while QALY quantify health.
For QALY, bigger is better; but for DALY, smaller is
better.
Heath programs try to AVERT DALY
Apart from their opposite signs, DALYs and QALYs
are almost equivalent.
Now, DALY have become the accepted way to
quantify GBD allowing us to compare the disease
burden in terms of age, country and region, types of
disease and more
46. GBD Compare
(Institute of Heath Metrics and Evaluation)
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Editor's Notes
1940s: Concept of “Years of Life Lost”.
1971: Sullivan’s Index
1983: Quality Adjusted Life Expectancy (QALE).
Summary measures of population health are measures that combine information on mortality and non-fatal health outcomes to represent the health of a particular population as a single number.
Over the past 30 years or so, several indicators have been developed to adjust mortality to reflect the impact of morbidity or disability. These measures fall into two basic categories, health expectancies and health gaps
Each of these steps includes methods and social value choices that affect the final estimates.
Both DALYs and QALYs are used to estimate HALYs and the burden of disease. However, they are used for
different purposes, and are therefore calculated in different ways.
The GBD 2010 study used a YLD calculation based on prevalence rather than incidence of disability. These includes:
the term “disability” is used broadly in BoD
analyses to refer to departures from good or ideal health in any of the important domains
of health. These include mobility, self-care, participation in usual activities, pain and
discomfort, anxiety and depression, and cognitive impairment. In some contexts, “health”
is understood to mean “absence of illness”, but in the context of summary measures of
population health, health is given a broader meaning. As well as implying the absence of
illness, it also means that there are no impairments or functional limitations due to previous
illness or injury. Note that disability (i.e. a state other than ideal health) may be short-term
or long-term. For example, a day with a common cold is a day with disability.
The GBD 2010 study used a YLD calculation based on prevalence rather than incidence of disability. These includes:
the term “disability” is used broadly in BoD
analyses to refer to departures from good or ideal health in any of the important domains
of health. These include mobility, self-care, participation in usual activities, pain and
discomfort, anxiety and depression, and cognitive impairment. In some contexts, “health”
is understood to mean “absence of illness”, but in the context of summary measures of
population health, health is given a broader meaning. As well as implying the absence of
illness, it also means that there are no impairments or functional limitations due to previous
illness or injury. Note that disability (i.e. a state other than ideal health) may be short-term
or long-term. For example, a day with a common cold is a day with disability.
The GBD 2010 study used a YLD calculation based on prevalence rather than incidence of disability. These includes:
the term “disability” is used broadly in BoD
analyses to refer to departures from good or ideal health in any of the important domains
of health. These include mobility, self-care, participation in usual activities, pain and
discomfort, anxiety and depression, and cognitive impairment. In some contexts, “health”
is understood to mean “absence of illness”, but in the context of summary measures of
population health, health is given a broader meaning. As well as implying the absence of
illness, it also means that there are no impairments or functional limitations due to previous
illness or injury. Note that disability (i.e. a state other than ideal health) may be short-term
or long-term. For example, a day with a common cold is a day with disability.
LE = A + B
LE = total life expectancy at birth
A = time lived in optimal health
B = time lived in suboptimal health
HE = A + f ( B)
HE = health expectancy
A = time lived in optimal health
B = time lived in suboptimal health
f(B) = function that assigns weights to years lived in suboptimal health (optimal health
has a weight of 1)
HG = C + g( B) Equation 3.
HG = health gap
B = time lived in suboptimal health
C = time lost due to mortality (premature death)
f(B) = function that assigns weights to health states lived during time B, but where a
weight of 1 equals to time lived in a health state equivalent to death