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Overview

This report on the Burden of Disease Study 2001 provides the second comprehensive assessment of the health status of the Victorian population. It quantifies the contribution to the ‘burden of disease’ of mortality, disability, impairment, illness and injury in 2001 for over 175 diseases, injuries and risk factors in a single indicator; the disability-adjusted life year (DALY). One DALY can be thought of as one lost year of healthy life and is calculated as a combination of (1) years of life lost (YLL) as a result of premature mortality and (2) equivalent healthy years of life lost as a result of disability(YLD). The burden of disease therefore measures the gap between current health status and an ideal situation in which every one lives into old age free of disease and disability. As such it indicates the unfinished health agenda, identifying areas in which additional health gain could be made.

Estimates for smaller areas within the state are currently work in progress and will be released as soon as possible.

Contents

• List of figures
• List of tables
• Executive Summary
• Key Findings—mortality (YLL)
• Key findings—morbidity (YLD)
• Key findings—burden of disease and injury (DALYs)
• Key findings—attributable burden of risk factors
• Key findings—comparison of 1996 and 2001 studies
• Key findings—precision of results, data gaps and future plans
• Acknowledgments
• 1 Introduction
• 2 Methods
  • 2.1 Social value choices made for the 2001Victorian study
  • 2.2 Population
  • 2.3 Deaths
  • 2.4 Years of life lost
  • 2.5 Years lost as a result of disability
  • 2.6 Disease categories
  • 2.7 Incidence and duration
  • 2.8 Derived weights
  • 2.9 Extrapolated weights
  • 2.10 Adjustments for comorbidity
  • 2.11 Data Sources
  • 2.12 Burden attributable to twelve major risk factors

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• 3 Overview Of Disease And Injury Models
  • 3.1 Infectious diseases
  • 3.2 Maternal disorders
  • 3.3 Neonatal disorders
  • 3.4 Nutritional disorders
  • 3.5 Cancers
  • 3.6 Other neoplasms
  • 3.7 Diabetes
  • 3.8 Mental disorders
  • 3.9 Nervous system and sense organ disorders
  • 3.10 Cardiovascular disease
  • 3.11 Chronic respiratory diseases
  • 3.12 Digestive system diseases
  • 3.13 Genitourinary diseases
  • 3.14 Musculoskeletal diseases
  • 3.15 Congenital anomalies
  • 3.16 Skin conditions and oral health
  • 3.17 Ill-defined conditions
  • 3.18 Injuries
• 4 Results
  • 4.1 Years of life lost
  • 4.2 Years lost due to disability
  • 4.3 Disability-adjusted life years
  • 4.4 Age and sex patterns of disease burden
  • 4.5 Specific disease and injury categories

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• 5 The burden attributable to risk factors
  • 5.1 Tobacco
  • 5.2 Alcohol
  • 5.3 Illicit drugs
  • 5.4 High body mass
  • 5.5 Blood pressure
  • 5.6 High blood cholesterol
  • 5.7 Physical inactivity
  • 5.8 Insufficient intake of fruits and vegetables
  • 5.9 Unsafe sex
  • 5.10 Occupational exposures and hazards
  • 5.11 Intimate partner violence
  • 5.12 Air pollution
  • 5.13 Joint effects correction
• 6 Comparison of the 1996 and 2001 results
  • 6.1 Mortality rates
  • 6.2 Years of life lost
  • 6.3 Disability-adjusted life years
  • 6.4 Risk factors
  • 6.5 Disease rankings
• 7 Discussion and conclusions
  • 7.1 Precision of estimates
  • 7.2 Data gaps and deficiencies
  • 7.3 Methodological issues and developments
  • 7.4 Policy implications and future directions
  • 7.5 Conclusions
• Glossary of abbreviations
• Appendix
  • Appendix table 1 Disease categories and disability weights
  • Appendix table 2 Principal data sources for estimation of years of life lost as a result
  • Appendix table 3 Deaths, by age, sex and cause, Victoria, 2001
  • Appendix table 4 Years of life lost (YLLs), by age, sex and cause, Victoria, 2001
  • Appendix table 5 Years lived with disability (incident YLDs), by age, sex and cause,
  • Appendix table 6 Years lived with disability (prevalent YLDs), by age, sex and cause,
  • Appendix table 7 Disability-adjusted life years (DALYs), by age, sex and cause,
  • Appendix table 8 Incidence, by age, sex and cause, Victoria, 2001
  • Appendix table 9 Prevalence, by age, sex and cause, Victoria, 2001
• References
• Notes

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Foreword, full contents pages, executive summary and introduction (369kb, pdf)

Methods and overview of disease models (442kb, pdf)

Results (DALYs, YLLs, YLDs), the burden attributable to risk factors, comparison of the 1996 and 2001 results, discussion and conclusions (471kb, pdf)

Appendix Tables (542kb, pdf)

References (291kb, pdf)

Entire report (1,700kb, pdf)

DALY worksheets 2001

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Feedback

Feedback is an essential component of the development process for burden of disease analyses so that future estimates are as useful as possible to epidemiologists, researchers, health planners and economic evaluation and health priority setting processes.

If you have questions or comments relating to the estimates, please contact:

Dr Leonard Sunil Piers, Victorian Department of Human Services
Email: leonard.piers@dhs.vic.gov.au

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