Burden of disease
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The burden of disease and injury in Australia 2003 (25 May 2007)
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Health system expenditure on cancer and other neoplasms (May 2005)
Health system expenditure on disease and injury in Australia - second edition (April 2005)
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The burden of disease and injury in Australia 2003
The burden of disease and injury in Australia 2003 provides a comprehensive assessment of the health status of Australians. The report measures mortality, disability, impairment, illness and injury arising from 176 diseases, injuries and risk factors using a common metric, the disability-adjusted life year or DALY, and methods developed by the Global Burden of Disease Study. Burden of disease analysis gives a unique perspective on health. Fatal and non-fatal outcomes are integrated, but can be examined separately as well. This report provides detailed estimates of the burden of premature mortality and disability for each disease and injury category by sex and age in 2003. It also assesses the burden attributable to each of 14 major risk factors, and inequalities in the disease burden associated with socioeconomic disadvantage and region. Estimates of the burden in 1993 and 2023 are compared with the burden in 2003.
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The burden of disease and injury in Australia (1996)
In 1999 the AIHW published The Burden of
Disease and Injury in Australia (Mathers et al 1999). This publication drew
together and analysed an enormous amount of Australian and international
epidemiological information.
Incidence, prevalence and disability states for 176 diseases and conditions for
18 age sex groups were estimated. In addition the impact of 10 important risk factors
on each of these 176 diseases and conditions was estimated. Link to hundreds of
spreadsheets that contain this information
are a key information resource.
The spreadsheets below are taken from a wider collection of spreadsheets.
Thus when you open a particular spreadsheet you will often get the message:
'The workbook you opened contains automatic links to information in another
workbook........',
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Interpreting the spreadsheets is best done in conjunction with the Burden of Disease publication.
The incidence, prevalence and disability state estimates for each disease and condition and the assumptions and references are contained in the YLD By Disease area. Each disease is designated by an alphanumeric code, and the spreadsheets are stored in that order.
The summary spreadsheets bring together the detailed disease information.
The risk factor spreadsheets show the detailed calculations for each risk factor. This is the analysis behind the information published in Chapter 7 of the Burden of Disease and Injury report.
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