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Burden of Disease - Glossary of terms

Acronym
Term
 AMI
 Acute myocardial infarction
 BoD  Burden of Disease
 BPD  Borderline Personality disorder
 CI  Confidence Interval
 COPD  Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
 DALE  Disability Adjusted Life Expectancy
 DALY  Disability Adjusted Life Years
 DHS  Department of Human Services
 DISMOD  Disease Modeling software developed by Harvard and WHO
 GAD  General anxiety disorder
 HTML  Hyper Text Markup Language
 ICD9  International Classification of Diseases Version 9
 IDDM  Insulin Dependent diabetes melitus
 IHD  Ischaemic Heart disease
 LE  Life Expectancy
 LGA(s)  Local Government Area(s)
 Log  A record of screens of output generated during a session
 NIDDM  Non- Insulin Dependent diabetes melitus
 SEIFA  Socioeconomic Indices for Areas
 WHO  World Health Organisation
 YLD  Years Lived with Disability
 YLL  Years of Life Lost

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