The burden of disease and injury in Australia / Colin Mathers, Theo Vos, Chris Stevenson
- Bib ID:
- 100537
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Mathers, Colin
- Online Version:
- http://www.aihw.gov.au/publications/index.cfm/title/5180
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- Description:
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- Canberra : Australian Institute of Health and Welfare, 1999
- xxviii, 245 p. : ill. ; 30 cm.
- ISBN:
- 1740240197
- Summary:
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'The Burden of Disease and Injury in Australia' 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 mortality and disability for each disease and injury category by sex and age. It also assesses the burden attributable to each of ten major risk factors and inequalities in the disease burden associated with socioeconomic disadvantage.
- Full contents:
- Chapter 1. Introduction: 1.1. Purpose and background - 1.2. Australian burden of disease and injury study - 1.3. Disability-adjusted life years - 1.4. Summary measures of health - 1.5. Comparing time lived in different health states - 1.6. Discounting - 1.7. Age weights - ch. 2. Methodology: 2.1. Overview - 2.2. Analysis categories - 2.3. Discounting and age weights - 2.4. Years of life lost due to mortality - 2.5. Disability weights - 2.6. Years lost due to disability - 2.7. Adjustments for comorbidity - 2.8. Socioeconomic inequalities - 2.9. Burden attributable to risk factors - 2.10. Uncertainty analyses - ch. 3. Years of life lost due to mortality: 3.1. Estimating deaths due to each cause - 3.2. Deaths in Australia 1996 - 3.3. Mortality burden in Australia 1996 - 3.4. Recent trends in mortality burden - 3.5. Socioeconomic disadvantage and mortality - ch. 4. Years lost due to disability: 4.1. Overview - 4.2. Data and methods - 4.3. Incidence, prevalence and duration of conditions - 4.4. Leading causes of the disability burden - 4.5. Disability burden - patterns by age and sex - 4.6. Prevalent burden of disability - 4.7. Attributable burden of selected impairments and disabilities - 4.8. Socioeconomic disadvantage and disability - 4.9. Disability-adjusted life expectancy - ch. 5. Burden of disease and injury: 5.1. Overview - 5.2. Leading causes of disease burden - 5.3. Age and sex patterns of disease burden - 5.4. Attributable burden: diabetes, depression, osteoporosis, firearms and sporting injuries - 5.5. The undiscounted burden of disease and injury - 5.6. Socioeconomic disadvantage and the burden of disease - ch. 6. National health priority areas: 6.1. Cardiovascular disease - 6.2. Cancers - 6.3. Mental health - 6.4. Injury - 6.5. Diabetes - 6.6. Asthma - ch. 7. Attributable burden for ten major risk factors: 7.1. Overview - 7.2. Tobacco - 7.3. Alcohol - 7.4. Illicit drugs - 7.5. Obesity - 7.6. Hypertension - 7.7. High blood cholesterol - 7.8. Physical inactivity - 7.9. Unsafe sex - 7.10. Occupational exposures and risks - 7.11. Inadequate fruit and vegetable consumption - ch. 8. Discussion and conclusions: 8.1. Key findings - 8.2. Precision of estimates - 8.3. Data gaps and deficiencies - 8.4. Methodological issues and developments - 8.5. Future directions - 8.6. Conclusions. Th
- Notes:
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- "AIHW cat. no. PHE 17"
- "November 1999"
- Includes bibliograpical references (p. 143-152)
- Also available in an electronic version via the Internet at: http://www.aihw.gov.au/publications/index.cfm/title/5180
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