Table of contents
- Preliminary material
- Title and verso pages
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- Symbols
- Summary
- Key findings
- Body section
- 1 Introduction
- What is burden of disease?
- How are burden of disease studies used?
- Australian Burden of Disease Study 2011
- First phase
- Second phase
- Purposes and context of this report
- Scope
- 2 Data sources and methods
- Cause list
- Development of the cause list
- Structure of the cause list
- Deaths data
- Mortality data sources
- Versions of mortality data
- Accounting for late registrations
- Accounting for year-to-year variation
- Redistribution of deaths
- Standard life table
- Life expectancy and life tables
- Choice of standard life table
- Standard life tables used in global studies
- Years of life lost
- What are YLL?
- How are YLL calculated?
- Cause list
- 3 Comparability of YLL estimates between studies
- 4 Results
- Does fatal burden differ by age and sex?
- How does fatal burden differ by disease group?
- What are the leading causes of fatal burden?
- Age patterns in YLL for selected disease groups
- 5 International comparisons of fatal burden
- Estimates of disease burden-not comparable between studies
- Estimates of disease burden can be compared within the same study
- 6 Discussion
- Methodological developments
- Limitations
- Future work
- 1 Introduction
- End matter
- Appendixes
- Appendix A: Additional tables
- Appendix B: Methods used for redistribution of deaths
- How are deaths redistributed?
- Redistribution results
- Impact of redistribution
- Appendix C: Statistical methods and technical notes
- Age-specific rates
- Age-standardised rates
- Rate ratio
- Glossary
- References
- List of tables
- List of figures
- List of boxes