- Title
- Burden of disease and aging
- Creator
- Thomas, Shane; Browning, Colette
- Date
- 2017
- Type
- Text; Book chapter
- Identifier
- http://researchonline.federation.edu.au/vital/access/HandleResolver/1959.17/179215
- Identifier
- vital:15593
- Identifier
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https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-287-080-3_332-1
- Identifier
- ISBN:9812870830
- Abstract
- Burden of disease (BoD) is a population measure of the effects of a specific disease or health problem. It is usually measured by Disability-Adjusted Life Years (DALYs) and/or by the related concept of Quality-Adjusted Life Years (QALYs). A DALY is a year of healthy life that is “lost” because of a specific condition. When the DALYs associated with a condition within a population are summed, this is the burden of disease (BoD). The burden of disease is the number of healthy years lost in a population compared to full health. The QALY is the person’s length of life multiplied by a valuation of their health-related quality of life. QALY measures are frequently used in the economic evaluation of health interventions. The World Health Organization coordinates a major ongoing global study of BoD, the Global Burden of Disease Study.
- Publisher
- Springer
- Relation
- Encyclopedia of Geropsychology p.
- Rights
- All metadata describing materials held in, or linked to, the repository is freely available under a CC0 licence
- Subject
- Aging; Global burden; Healthy aging; Perfect health; Disease concept; Geriatrics
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