TRN125Y1 Lecture : HLTC07_Lecture_2.docx
2 May 2013
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Lecture 2: the burden of disease and disability. Measures: dalys, at the population level, at the individual level. Individual-level data are aggregated to generate estimates of quantities. In order to quantify and describe the burden of disease generally use aggregated data. But these are the best estimates that we have using individual data, aggregate to get estimate of general quantities. Ex) proportion of the population that suffers from particular health problem. Ex) proportion of the population that dies from specific cause. Limitations: (when we aggregate data at the certain level: difficulties in comparing indicators. One region may say for ex) rates of mortality by certain categories that aren"t the same for. The ease in terms of comparing diff indicators may not exist. Nowadays, we do have general forms that we use. Every country looks at mortality of children under the age of 12 months, under age of 5; these are indicators that seem to be generally accepted.
