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Tag Archives: Disability Adjusted Life Years (DALY)
Global Burden of Disease (Alzheimer’s Disease and Other Dementias, 1990-2016) Study: 2018 Update (Lancet Neurology)
Summary An update to the Global Burden of Diseases, Injuries, and Risk Factors (GBD) Study of 2016 has been published. The number of people living with dementia globally appears to have more than doubled between 1990 to 2016. “In the … Continue reading
Posted in For Doctors (mostly), For Nurses and Therapists (mostly), For Researchers (mostly), International, Quick Insights, Statistics, Systematic Reviews, Universal Interest
Tagged Age Standardised Death Rates, Age-Standardised Years of Life Lost (SYLL), Ageing Population, All-Cause Mortality, All-Cause Mortality and Cause-Specific Mortality for 249 Causes of Death (1980–2015), Alzheimer’s Disease: Prevalence, Amenable Mortality, Behavioural Risk Factors, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, DALYs, Dementia and Mortality, Dementia Prevention, Dementia Risk Factors, Diet High in Sugar-Sweetened Beverages, Disability Adjusted Life Years (DALY), Disease Burden, DisMod-MR 2.1 Model, Epidemiology, Epidemiology and Statistics, GBD 2016 Alzheimer’s Disease and Other Dementia Collaborators, Global Burden of Diseases Injuries and Risk Factors (GBD) Study, High Body-Mass Index (BMI), High Fasting Plasma Glucose, Lancet Neurology, Life Expectancy, Lifestyle Risk Factors, Modeling Causes of Death: Integrated Approach Using CODEm, Modifiable Risk Factors, Mortality, Prevalence, Prevalence of Cancer, Prevalence of Dementia, Prevention, Prevention Agenda, Prevention Programmes, Public Health, Risk Factors, Smoking, Social Epidemiology, Sugar- and Artificially Sweetened Beverages, Years Lost Due to Disability (YLD), Years of Life Lost (YLLs), YLDs
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UK Stroke and Dementia Research: Under-Funding Persists (BMJ Open / Guardian)
Summary The levels of research funding upon cancer, coronary heart disease (CHD), dementia and stroke were compared, in relation to burden of each of these diseases in terms of their prevalence, disability adjusted life years and economic burden. This analysis … Continue reading
Posted in Commissioning, For Researchers (mostly), In the News, National, NIHR, Parkinson's Disease, Statistics, Stroke, UK, Universal Interest
Tagged BMJ Open, Burden of Dementia, Burden of Disease, Cancer, Cognitive Function and Ageing Study, Coronary Heart Disease (CHD), Dementia Disability Adjusted Life Years, Dementia Research, Disability Adjusted Life Years (DALY), European Community Concerted Action on the Epidemiology and Prevention of Dementia (EURODEM), General Register Office for Scotland, Guardian, Health Economics Research Centre: University of Oxford, Mortality Statistics, National Institute for Health Research (NIHR), National Statistics, Northern Ireland Statistics & Research Agency, Nuffield Department of Population Health: University of Oxford, Office for National Statistics, Office for National Statistics (ONS), Resource Allocation to Brain Research in Europe (RABRE), Stroke and Dementia Research Under-Funding, Stroke Disease Disability Adjusted Life Years, UK Clinical Research Collaboration, UK Health Research Analysis, UK Health Research Funding, UK Medical Research Spending (2008 and 2012), UK Stroke and Dementia Research, Underfunding of Stroke Research, University of Oxford
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The European Health Report 2012 (WHO/Europe)
Summary This World Health Organisation (WHO), Regional Office for Europe, report covers the overall improvements to health in the WHO European Region, and analyses the health inequalities within and across countries. A road-map is provided to Europe’s health policy goal, … Continue reading
Posted in For Doctors (mostly), For Researchers (mostly), International, Quick Insights, Standards, Statistics, Universal Interest
Tagged Ageing, Alcohol Consumption, Burden of Disease, Causes of Dementia, CSDH: Commission on the Social Determinants of Health, Delivery of Health Care, Demographic Change and Public Services, Demographic Changes, Demographic Time-Bomb, Demographics, Demography, Disability Adjusted Life Years (DALY), Disease Burden, Epidemiology, Epidemiology and Statistics, Europe, European Health Report 2012 (WHO/Europe), European Targets for Health and Well‐Being, European Union (EU), EUROSTAT: Statistical Office of the European Union, Health 2020, Health 2020 Targets, Health and Wellbeing, Health for All, Health for All and HEALTH21, Health Inequalities, Health Policy, Health Status Indicators, Health Systems as Health Determinants, Health Systems’ Contribution to Well-Being, ICF: International Classification of Functioning Disability and Health, Impact of Demographic Change on Public Services, Life Expectancy, Life Expectancy of Older People, Measuring Health and Wellbeing, Morbidity, Mortality, Mortality Morbidity and Wellbeing, Mortality Rates, Mortality Statistics, NCDs: Noncommunicable Diseases, NUTS: Nomenclature of Units for Territorial Statistics (European Union), OECD, ONS, Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), Population Growth and Ageing, PSS: Perceived Stress Scale, Public Health, Public Health Trends, Regional Health Planning, Risk Factors, RIVM: National Institute for Public Health and the Environment (the Netherlands), SAGE: Study on Global AGEing and Adult Health (WHO), SMART: Specific Measurable Achievable Relevant and Timely, Social Demographics, Social Determinants of Health Inequalities, Social Epidemiology, SWLS: Satisfaction With Life Scale, Tobacco Consumption, Well-Being, Wellbeing, WEMWBS: Warwick-Edinburgh Mental Well-being Scale, WHO, WHO-Five Well-being Index (WHO-5), WHO: World Health Organization, WHOQoL: WHO Quality of Life Project, World Health Organisation (WHO) Regional Office for Europe, World Health Organization
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Scale of Mental Health Disorders Across Europe 2010 (ECNP)
[A version of this item appears in: Dementia: the Latest Evidence Newsletter (RWHT), Volume 2 Issue 3, October 2011]. Summary This study, from the European College of Neuropsychopharmacology (ECNP), examines the extent of mental health disorders and other disorders of … Continue reading
Posted in For Researchers (mostly), In the News, International, NHS Digital (Previously NHS Choices), Statistics, Systematic Reviews, Universal Interest
Tagged Center of Epidemiology and Longitudinal Studies (CELOS), Disability Adjusted Life Years (DALY), Disease Burden, European College of Neuropsychopharmacology (ECNP), European Union (EU), Institute of Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy, Technische Universität Dresden
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