computing country level environmental health burden of disease

... Annette Preventing disease through healthy environments Towards an estimate of the environmental burden of disease / Prüss-Üstün A, Corvalán C Environmental monitoring Cost of illness Risk factors ... countries Environmental disease burden, by WHO subregion Diseases with the largest environmental contribution Environmental disease burden in DALYs per 1000 people, by WHO subregion (2002) Environmental ... PREVENTING DISEASE THROUGH HEALTHY ENVIRONMENTS T his global assessment provides quantitative estimates of 'burden of disease' from environmental factors across the major categories of reported diseases...

Ngày tải lên: 12/02/2014, 12:20

... methods: assessing the environmental burden of disease at national and local levels Geneva: WHO, 2003 (WHO Environmental burden of disease series, number 1) WHO Burden of Disease Project: 2001 ... The burden of disease attributable to environmental pollution 9.4 Burden of disease The World Health Organisation has assessed the disease burden from lead exposure for the year 2000 at global level, ... (COMEAP) of the Department of Health who have published risk estimates (see section 10.3) 24 The burden of disease attributable to environmental pollution 10.2 Burden of respiratory disease The...

Ngày tải lên: 17/02/2014, 10:20

... pollution: Assessing the environmental burden of disease at national and local levels Geneva, World Health Organization, 2004 (WHO Environmental Burden of Disease Series, No 5) © World Health Organization ... Ostro, Bart Outdoor air pollution : assessing the environmental burden of disease at national and local levels / Bart Ostro (Environmental burden of disease series / series editors: Annette Prüss-Üstün ... AF of each health outcome, which is then applied to the total disease burden of each outcome, measured in DALYs Information on disease burdens can be obtained from several sources: a national burden...

Ngày tải lên: 06/03/2014, 16:20

... Introduction World Health Organization Box 2: The global burden of diseases and injuries The global burden of disease 2004 update provides a comprehensive assessment of the causes of loss of health in ... year of “healthy” life, and the burden of disease can be thought of as a measurement of the gap between current health status and an ideal situation where everyone lives into old age, free of disease ... global burden of disease study will include a comprehensive revision and update of mortality and burden of disease attributable to an extended set of global risks Where needed, major revisions of...

Ngày tải lên: 14/03/2014, 09:20

... in terms of burden of disease are also dramatic, from a country with a burden of disease of less than 100 DALYs per 1000 populations (Iceland) to a country that presents a burden of disease almost ... for Health 2011, 9:4 http://www.human-resources -health. com/content/9/1/4 25% of the global burden of disease, while the Americas have 37% of the health workers and only 10% of the burden of disease ... the regions that consist of the poorest countries (i.e higher density of health professionals and lower burden of disease) Furthermore, the uneven distribution of health professionals, highly documented...

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 17:20

... a measure of the future stream of healthy life (i.e years expected to be lived in full health) lost as a result of the incidence of specific diseases and injuries in 1990 The effect of incident ... and disease burden, World, 1990 Premature Mortality Disability Disease Burden Rank Disease/ injury YLLs (000s) Cumulative % Disease/ injury YLDs (000s) Cumulative% Disease/ injury DALYs (000s) % of ... exposures Improving Comparative Quantification of Diseases, Injuries and Risk Factors: The Global Burden of Disease 2000 Study The initial Global Burden of Disease Study represented a quantum leap...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 18:20

... e.g disease burden and unit costs of various health services [810] At an individual country level, a list of costs per discounted life year gained for a large number of preventive and curative health ... and equipment The head office of the Ministry of Health and Child Welfare constitutes the highest level of the public health care sector and it is the main actor in terms of health policy making ... in the burden of disease (DALYs averted) as a result of the intervention Following the Global Burden of Disease methodology [32-34], the burden of disease for an individual of sex s dying prematurely...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 11:22

... physical health 0.05 0.06 P06: mental health 0.42 0.50 P07: global QoL 0.37 0.51 P08: burden disease 0.63 0.70 P09: burden Dx/Tx 0.21 0.17 P10: burden disease (parents) 0.57 0.64 P11: burden Dx/Tx ... Lindemulde E, Wigal S: Development of a new once-a-day formulation of methylphenidate for the treatment of attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder: proof -of- concept and proof -of- product studies Arch Gen ... items for parents/caregivers of patients only: (10) problems (burden of present disorder /disease for parents/caregivers) and (11) overall evaluation of therapy (burden associated with the overall...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 18:22

... 20 Leading Causes of Global Burden of Disease, DALYs(3,0), 2001 The 10 Leading Causes of Burden of Disease by Broad Income Group, 2001 The 10 Leading Causes of the Burden of Disease in Low- and ... population -level profiles of morbidity and mortality Publication of the Global Burden of Disease (1990) was a watershed event in the assessment of health and disease Through careful synthesis of disease ... Contributions of Risk Factors to Mortality and Burden of Disease from Cardiovascular Diseases Individual and Joint Contributions of Risk Factors to Mortality and Burden of Disease from Major Diseases of...

Ngày tải lên: 12/02/2014, 12:20

... investigating the contribution of a range of risk factors, such as malnutrition, smoking and lack of access to water and sanitation, to the burden of disease Assessing the burden of disease from indoor ... Indoor smoke from solid fuels: assessing the environmental burden of disease at national and local levels Geneva, WHO, 2004 Environmental Burden of Disease Series No Available at http://www.who.int/indoorair/publications/ ... for more than 1.5 million deaths and 2.7% of the global burden of disease In high-mortality developing countries, it accounted for 3.7% of the burden of disease, making it the most important risk...

Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 02:20

... distribution of burden of disease 42 16 Leading causes of burden of disease 42 17 The disease and injury burden for women 46 18 The growing burden of noncommunicable disease 47 19 The unequal burden of ... distribution of burden of disease 42 Leading causes of burden of disease 42 The disease and injury burden for women 46 The growing burden of noncommunicable ... causes, infectious diseases, or other diseases or injury It is included as sequelae for such causes in the estimation of burden of disease Ninety per cent of the burden of non-fatal health outcomes...

Ngày tải lên: 28/03/2014, 09:20

... at a mean age of 27 years.(70) PREVENTION Nowhere is the absurdity of a lack of prevention of RHD, in the Congenital heart disease Incidences of “significant” congenital heart disease (CHD) (i.e ... progress are lack of funding and lack of cooperation (or lack of interest?) at local government levels to enable sustainability of a cardiac programme Health expenditure is a large part of the GDP in ... (ARF) A single attack of ARF may progress to RHD, but most RHD results from the cumulative damage of repeated attacks.(11,12,13,14) BURDEN OF DISEASE The “big three” communicable diseases – malaria,...

Ngày tải lên: 28/03/2014, 11:20

... In 2000 the World Health Organization (WHO) initiated a comparative risk assessment (CRA) as part of its ongoing Global Burden of Disease project The burden of disease in terms of deaths and disability-adjusted ... age, sex, and disease, worldwide and for each of 14 world regions The burden of disease attributable to urban outdoor air pollution was estimated, along with the burdens of other environmental ... regional burden of disease Lancet 2(360):1347–1360 Ezzati, M., Rodgers, A D., Lopez, A D., and Murray, C J L., eds 2004 Comparative quantification of health risks: Global and regional burden of disease...

Ngày tải lên: 29/03/2014, 18:20

... Levels Geneva: World Health Organization, 2004 (WHO Environmental Burden of Disease Series, No 4) 35 World Health Organization International Classification of Diseases Manual of the International ... regional burden of disease Lancet 2002; 360: 1347-1360 34 Desai MA, Mehta S, Smith KR Indoor Smoke from Solid Fuels: Assessing the Environmental Burden of Disease at National and Local Levels Geneva: ... high levels of recurring respiratory symptoms among children and high levels of indoor air pollution (with levels of CO, SO2 and NO2 up to 12 times those of international guidelines).24 One of...

Ngày tải lên: 29/03/2014, 18:20

... Department of Health Last Accessed: January 2010 13 Department of Health: Hospital Episodes Statistics, England: Financial Year 2005-06 London: Department of Health; 2006 14 Department of Health: Burden ... Type of resource used Sources of data (reference number) Health care cost Community health/ social services Health care cost subtotal £168.2 Non -health care cost Hours of informal care Hours of ... the Department of Health and NHS R&D The Health Economics Research Centre receives some of its funding from the National Institute of Health Research The authors report no conflict of interest Authors'...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 11:22

... prevalence of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease diagnosed by lower limit of normal and fixed ratio criteria J Korean Med Sci 2009; 24: 621-6 13 The United States of America Department of State ... Obstructive Lung Disease Subjects with TB lesions as severity of airflow obstruction among never smokers Among never smokers, the proportion of subjects with TB lesions increased as the severity of obstructive ... lung disease increased (P for trend < 0.001) A total of 113 (5.2%) of 2,190 subjects without airflow obstruction (FEV1/FVC > 0.7) had TB lesions Among subjects with airflow obstruction, (14.3%) of...

Ngày tải lên: 15/03/2014, 03:20

... INSTITUTE OF ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH SCIENCES; AWARDS FOR DEVELOP- MENT PLINARY RESEARCH CENTERS REGARDING WOMEN’S HEALTH AND DISEASE PREVEN- TION AND OPERATION OF MULTIDISCI- Subpart 12 of part C of title ... women of the diseases 16 and conditions involved 17 ‘‘(3) STIPENDS FOR TRAINING OF HEALTH PRO- 18 FESSIONALS.—A 19 use funds under such subsection to provide stipends 20 for health and allied health ... multidisci16 plinary research on environmental factors that may be re17 lated to the development of women’s health conditions (as 18 defined in section 486) The Director of the Institute shall 19 carry...

Ngày tải lên: 22/03/2014, 11:20

... than target microbes, rather than in terms of RED Performance expressed in terms of log reductions of microbes of given UV-resistance eliminates the issue of a dose distribution Typically regulatory ... impact of the dose distribution, and without making any unsafe assumptions, provides a methodology that is safe with respect to the protection of public and environmental health - 88 - Journal of ... confidence level of microbiological results for reuse applications and as a lower 90th confidence level of microbiological results for drinking water applications The differences in confidence levels...

Ngày tải lên: 05/09/2013, 09:08

... vulnerable than adults to the effects of environmental contaminants To better understand the effects of these exposures, the NIEHS/EPA Children’s Environmental Health and Disease Prevention Research Centers ... also part of the NIEHS Partnerships in Environmental Public Health, an umbrella program that brings together scientists, community members, educators, health care providers, public health officials, ... exploring new and emerging areas of science in children’s environmental health, while pioneering innovative techniques and approaches Areas of research include health effects of exposure to air pollutants,...

Ngày tải lên: 12/02/2014, 19:20

... quality of health delivery; 2) increase access to health services; 3) improve efficiency of health service delivery; 4) foster partnership in improving health and; 5) improve financing of the health ... political administration of the district District Health Management Team responsible for coordination of health activities and management of the district health budget Providers of health services, both ... Ministry of Health (MOH) 2002 The Second Health Sector Year Programme of Work 2002-2006 Partnerships for Health: Bridging the Inequality Gap Government of Ghana, January 2002 Ministry of Health...

Ngày tải lên: 13/02/2014, 10:20